Coming Soon: March 22 – March 28, 2025
TRIBUTE TO EDWARD ARNOLD
Originally Broadcast WNIB
Saturday, March 23, 1985
CAVALCADE OF AMERICA (10-20-41) “All That Money Can Buy” starring Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, James Craig, Jane Darwell and Anne Shirley in a radio version of the 1941 film based on Stephen Vincent Benet’s “The Devil and Daniel Webster.” DuPont, NBC. (15:05; 13:20)
LUX RADIO THEATRE (10-2-39) “You Can’t Take It With You” starring Edward Arnold, Fay Wray, Robert Cummings, and Walter Connolly in the radio version of the 1938 movie about an eccentric family unable to conform to normal life when confronted by it. This is the fifth anniversary broadcast of the Lux Radio Theatre. Lux Soap, CBS. (28:05; 16:07; 18:10)
HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE (2-23-50) “Will Rogers” starring Edward Arnold and Will Rogers, Jr. in a drama based on the life and exploits of one of America’s true life heroes. Hallmark Cards, CBS. (13:22; 15:46)
MR. PRESIDENT (10-30-47) Edward Arnold stars as a president of the United States who is threatened by an assassination attempt. Sustaining, ABC. (14:15; 14:25)
OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be BOB KOLOSOSKI, Nostalgia Digest columnist, film historian and movie buff who will discuss the career of actor Edward Arnold.
Coming Soon: March 29 – April 4, 2025
“NEW TIME” RADIO
Originally Broadcast WNIB
Saturday, March 30, 1985
HOLLYWOOD RADIO THEATRE (10-28-73) ZERO HOUR presents “The Heir Hunters” starring Ken Barry, JoAnn Worley and Edgar Bergen in an Elliott Lewis production. Host Rod Serling introduces a “sound portrait of an unlikely hero.” Supporting cast includes Elvia Allman, Daws Butler, June Foray, Peter Leeds, Sidney Miller, Greg Mullavey, Valerie Perrine, Barney Phillips, Peggy Weber. Participating sponsors, MBS. (10:15; 12:00; 12:30; 14:50; 12:10; 12:05; 14:20; 14:30)
NATIONAL RADIO THEATRE (1980) “The Curse of 589” starring William Shatner and Studs Terkel in a new script by Norman Corwin about a physicist who encounters a leprachaun. Directed by Yuri Rasovsky. John Doremus, announcer. (18:55; 24:19; 14:39)
OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be YURI RASOVSKI, producer of the National Radio Theatre who will discuss many of the efforts being made to produce original radio drama for the 1980s.
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