VOTING FOR OLD TIME RADIO
Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, November 4th, 2000
FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (11-5-40) Jim and Marian Jordan star. The Good Government Club has offered $250 to the election officials who bring out 100 per cent of the voters in their precinct… and the McGees have a polling place in their home at 79 Wistful Vista. Cast includes Harold Peary, Isabel Randolph, Bill Thompson, Harlow Wilcox, King’s Men, Billy Mills and the orchestra. The program is interrupted for the latest election results (Roosevelt vs. Willke) on this Election Night broadcast. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30 min)
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (11-7-40) Excerpt. Hugh Conover, Reg Allen and Arthur Godfrey report on the “Presidential Special” which has just arrived at Union Station with President Roosevelt and his party, “returning to Washington from his successful Third Term campaign. All Washington has turned out at a rather early hour… to give the President a welcome…” CBS. (20 min)
GREEN HORNET (10-2-40) “Votes For Sale” starring Al Hodge as Britt Reid, newspaper publisher who fights crime as the Green Hornet. In this episode, the Hornet smashes a political racket. Cast includes Paul Hughes and Ed Begley. Syndicated. (28 min)
1948 ELECTION RETURNS (11-3-48) From NBC Election Headquarters in New York, on the morning after President Harry Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey, newsmen Bob Trout, Morgan Beatty, H. V. Kaltenborn, Richard Harkness, Ray Henley and Ned Brooks (after a sleepless night) try to analyze the reasons for the upset. NBC. (30 min).
ROBERT TROUT AND THE NEWS (11-7-48) President Truman gets a victor’s welcome in Key West, Florida after his surprise election. Trout talks about Truman’s plans for the future and his new Cabinet. Plus other news of the day. Pillsbury, NBC. (5 min)
LIVING, 1948 (11-7-48) “What Happened?” is the jackpot question of the 20th Century: What happened during the 1948 Presidential Election when the Gallup Poll and other polls predicted the defeat of Truman by Dewey. Ben Grauer narrates and George Gallup, Director of the Institute of Public Opinion, is guest. Sustaining, NBC. (25 min)
GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (11-5-44) Harold Peary stars as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, with Lillian Randolph, Walter Tetley, Lurene Tuttle, Earle Ross, Arthur Q. Brian, Richard LeGrand, Bea Benaderet. On the eve of the National Election, the hottest topic of conversation in Summerfield is the Mayoral race. Gildy and Judge Hooker bet on the election. Kraft Foods, NBC. (27 min)
Updated: 11/4/25 9:46 pm C.S.T.
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