The Bob Hope Show was one of the longest running radio programs in the history of the golden age of American radio. The serialization aired from 1935 until 1955 and is considered one the all-time greats when it comes to old time radio comedy.
Created by Ed James, Father Knows Best follows the lives of the Andersons, a middle-class family living in the town of Springfield.
The Life of Riley starring William Bendix as lovable, blundering, Chester A. Riley, was a radio situation comedy broadcast during and after wartime 40s.
The Aldrich Family, a popular radio teenage situation comedy (July 2, 1939 – April 19, 1953),[1] was also presented in films, television and comic books. In the radio series' opening exchange, awkward teen Henry's mother called, "Hen-ry-y-y-y! Hen-ry Al-drich!", and he responded with a breaking adolescent voice, "Com-ing, Mother!"
Fibber McGee and Molly (1935–1959) was a longtime[3] husband-and-wife team radio comedy program.
The Great Gildersleeve was a radio situation comedy broadcast in the United States from 1941 to 1958. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. The series was built around Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly.
The Harold Peary Show featured a radio show within a radio show. The main character, Harold Hemp -- called "Honest Harold," was host of a program called "The Happy Homemaker". As one would expect from a situation comedy, humor arose from Hemp's interaction with other characters in the episodes. They included his mother, his nephew, a marshal, a doctor, the radio station's switchboard operator, and girlfriends.
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Back of the Mike is a short film done in 1938 for the Chevrolet Motor Company depicting the behind the scenes look at the making of a Western radio show.
Behind the scenes tour of NBC's radio and television broadcasting facilities at Rockefeller Center, New York City.
Military training film on a New York radio station, WMCA, owned by the Nathan Straus family, showing its ownership, management and activities. Good view of radio in the era when most stations were locally owned and operated.
How radio brings news and information to Americans. With footage of many news events covered by radio and images everyday life in the late 1950s.