An Armed Forces Radio and Television Service disc of this program is housed in the Library of Congress. It is dated 1971, and is a 12-inch disc playing at 33 1/3 RPM. The Golden Age of Radio was hosted by Frank Bresee and was 25-minutes in length. According to the Library of Congress summary, it…
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Special Recording for NBC
This special promotional disc is part of the NBC Collection at the Library of Congress. The label is marked #71276 and dated June 29, 1953. The Library of Congress labels the disc simply “Commercials.” It features three tracks, one for each of three new shows which NBC was thinking of adding to its schedule –…
Destry Rides Again – The Playaway Version
Radio Spirits has been producing old-time radio shows and sets for many years. Beginning with cassettes, they kept pace with the technology into the age of CD’s and .mp3’s. Along the way, in the early 2000’s, they introduced their own format which they called “Playaway.” The Playaway device was 3.25 x 2 inches in size…
Radio’s Greatest Westerns
Radio’s Greatest Westerns was a 5-CD set issued in1992 by Prime Time Nostalgia (PTN-728). It featured shows from five radio programs – Gunsmoke starring William Conrad, Fort Laramie starring Raymond Burr, Hopalong Cassidy starring William Boyd, The Cisco Kid Starring Jack Mather and The Six Shooter starring Jimmy Stewart. All five of the leading men…
The Six Shooter – Crisis at Easter Creek
This is one of the few Six Shooters where the title is known for sure because it was mentioned during the show. During the break between the two acts, John Wald, the show’s announcer, says the title. Most of the newspaper listings were just that, a simple listing of the show’s title. However, this display…
The Six Shooter – The Silver Buckle
William Conrad is the narrator for this story, also sometimes called The Silver Belt Buckle. Others in the play are Eleanor Audley as Mrs. Davis, Forrest Lewis as the sheriff, Joel Cranston (father of current popular actor, Bryan Cranston) as Lex Springer and Frank Gerstle as Kit Springer. This program was advertised in the January…
The Gift of Christmas – Salvation Army
In late 1983, newspaper articles like the one below (The Indiana Gazette, Indiana, PA, November 15, 1983) began to appear: About a month later, this appeared in the Altoona News, Altoona, PA (December 17, 1983): One of the public service broadcasts on which Stewart appeared that year was the annual Salvation Army “Army of Stars”…
Screen Directors’ Playhouse – Call Northside 777
Like several other radio programs, NBC’s Screen Directors’ Playhouse presented radio adaptations of films. The difference here is that the film’s director was usually a guest of the program and introduced the play and was interviewed at the end. The film Call Northside 777 had been released in February 1948. It had already been presented…
The Six Shooter – Ben Scofield
Since most of The Six Shooter scripts carried no official title, many shows are known by several. Ben Scofield is also called Horseshoe Clue, The Sherriff’s Son and Holdup at Clay City. This is the third time this particular script had been used by Stewart. It first appeared on the Hollywood Star Playhouse series on…
Hollywood Star Playhouse – The Six Shooter: The Beginnings of a Series
As described in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, Stewart starred in the April 13, 1952, edition of NBC’s Hollywood Star Playhouse. He played the role of Britt Proset, a traveling cowboy with the nickname of “The Six Shooter.” Others appearing in the program were William Conrad as Ed Scofield, Parley Baer as Fred Wilmer, Herb…
