Radio’s Golden Age Christmas

This 5-CD set was released by The Audio File in 2012 (DGA 1224). The first CD in the set (“A”) is the March 10, 1947, Lux Radio Theatre production of It’s a Wonderful Life. It starred Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed and Victor Moore.  …

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Christmas Classics

Christmas Classics is an eight-CD collection being sold online during the 2017 holiday season. The set includes four shows originally broadcast on the Lux Radio Theatre, and one each from This Is My Best, Radio City Playhouse, Screen Directors’ Playhouse and Grand Central Station. One of the Lux shows is the March 10, 1947, broadcast…

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Christmas Collection

This 10-CD set of Old Time Radio Christmas shows features mainly half hour programs. The Screen Directors’ Playhouse version of It’s a Wonderful Life, starring Stewart, Hans Conried (Mr. Potter) Arthur Q. Bryan (Clarence Oddbody) and Barbara Eiler (Mary) is one of the shows included. The program was originally broadcast on May 8, 1949. Other…

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The Old Time Radio Club Presents Magic Town

Many old-time radio programs have been issued by various companies here in the U.S. However, releases don’t appear to be as common in other countries. Even in the age of international sales platforms like eBay and Amazon, we have not seen many foreign releases. Most of those we have seen are from the UK. We…

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The Six Shooter (Radio Showcase)

Jimmy Stewart’s The Six Shooter series was released on cassette tapes by Radio Showcase in 1986. The J-card used in the cassette cases were generic and all were like the one below. The cassette labels were rather plain and just featured the show’s title and the date of the original broadcast. Although it’s a safe…

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The Six Shooter (Audio Classics)

We recently purchased a large collection of old time radio shows on cassette tapes. Included in that set were 11 cassettes from Jimmy Stewart’s The Six Shooter series. Each cassette featured two half-hour shows, for a total of 22 programs. The cassettes were issued by Audio Classics, Inc., of St. Charles, MO. The J-cards for…

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