VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, January 2nd, 1999

LIGHTS OUT (4-13-43) “The Archer” pre­sented by Arch Oboler. A girl, about to be killed, is rescued by a ghost with a bow and arrow. Ironized Yeast, CBS. (30:00)

KAY KYSER’S KOLLEGE OF MUSICAL KNOWL­EDGE (10-31-45) The “old professor” himself in a broadcast from Chicago before patients at Vaughn General Hospital. Georgia Carroll, Ish-Kabibble, Sully Mason put the contestants through their paces. AFRS rebroadcast. (30:18)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (8-5-76) Radio producer-director Arch Oboler talks about his career in a conversation with Chuck Schaden re­corded in Mr. Oboler’s Studio City, California home. He died in 1987 at the age of 77. (20:30; 22:24)

LIGHTS OUT (4-6-38) “Cat Wife” starring Boris Karloff in Arch Oboler’s classic story of a man whose wife turns into a human-sized cat. Sustaining, NBC. (28:40)

HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE (3-24-49) “Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal” starring Richard Conte in a biographical story about the west­ern hero. James Hilton hosts. Hallmark Cards, CBS. (29:30)

RECOLLECTIONS AT THIRTY (6-11-56) First program in a 33-part series marking the 30th anniversary of the National Broadcasting Company. Host Ed Herlihy presents audio clips of Graham MacNamee describing the arrival of Charles Lindbergh in Washington following his flight from New York to Paris; Cliquot Club Eskimos; Joe White, the Sil­ver-Masked Tenor; George Olsen and the orchestra. Sustaining, NBC. (21:38)