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Old Time Radio Drama (Drama)

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  • Host: Norman Gilliland
  • This show brings you the best of 1930s, 40s, and 50s entertainment. Host Norman Gilliland explores some of the best comedy, drama, adventure, mystery, and science fiction of the Twentieth Century. Where else can you get entertainment including comedy, suspense, alien invaders, and ads for products you haven't seen in decades all in the show.
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Jan 4 Listen
James Stewart is the Six-Shooter, at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And Fred Allen tries to compete with the big giveaway shows in a broadcast from 1946. Hear your play on Wisconsin Public Radio! Find out about the Soundwaves Youth Radio Festival at: http://www.ecb.org/soundwaves/rules.htm

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Jan 3 Listen
Ride into Frontier Town, at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And drop in on George Burns and Gracie Allen from vintage 1946 comedy. Hear your play on Wisconsin Public Radio! Find out about the Soundwaves Youth Radio Festival at: http://www.ecb.org/soundwaves/rules.htm

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Dec 28 Listen
At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, Hopalong Cassidy encounters a woman said to have the power to strike men dead. And George Burns and Gracie Allen come up against John Garfield, gangster, in a broadcast from 1943.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Dec 27 Listen
The Lone Ranger rides out of your radio, at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And Fibber McGee finds gold in a broadcast from 1940.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Dec 21 Listen
It's Christmas with the Great Gildersleeve, at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. Then, The First Nighter follows with a story of the season.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Dec 20 Listen
At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, take up the Challenge of the Yukon with adventure from 1948. Then drop in on the Great Gildersleeve as he tries to come up with a Christmas gift for Fibber McGee.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Dec 14 Listen
At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, All-Star Western Theater from 1947 brings you songs and a story or two. And Fibber McGee has an adventure just mailing Christmas presents in an outing from 1940.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Dec 13 Listen
After eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, Hopalong Cassidy, and the Life of Riley.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Dec 7 Listen
A vengeful boy spells danger for Lightning Jim, tonight at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And Jack Benny has an encounter with his violin teacher in an outing from 1947.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Dec 6 Listen
Go Christmas shopping with Jack Benny, tonight at eight, during Old-Time Radio Drama. And ride west with Doctor Sixgun in an outing from 1954.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Nov 30 Listen
Have Gun Will Travel from 1959 shares tonight's eight o'clock hour of Old-Time Radio Drama with the comedy of Fred Allen from 1942.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Nov 29 Listen
Have Gun Will Travel opens the 8 o'clock hour of Old-Time Radio Drama tonight, and the western action continues--after a fashion--with Charles Boyer as "Tex" during an episode of Burns and Allen.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Nov 23 Listen
Ride with Hawk Larabee, at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And flash back to Riley's first date in a story from 1950.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Nov 22 Listen
All-Star Western Theater comes your way, at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, and Space Patrol from 1953 will pit you against the Sea Monster of Planet-X.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Nov 16 Listen
The Lone Ranger rides again, tonight at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And George and Gracie celebrate an anniversary in a broadcast from 1948.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Nov 15 Listen
After eight, Matt and Chester have to escort a prisoner on the overland express on Old-Time Radio Drama. And Fibber McGee has his own trouble with the law in an outing from 1939.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Nov 9 Listen
At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, Gunsmoke from 1956. Then, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy make life difficult for society hostess Elsa Maxwell.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Nov 8 Listen
Ride with the Cisco Kid and Pancho, at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And join Jack Benny and the gang for laughs in a broadcast from 1937.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Nov 2 Listen
A girl rescued on the prairie takes up with a dangerous companion in Dodge during Gunsmoke, at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And Riley decides Babs? elopement might be a good idea during The Life of Riley from 1950.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Nov 1 Listen
Tonight's Halloween nuggets of Old-Time Radio Drama begin with Have Gun Will Travel and "The Monster of Moon Ridge," after eight. Then Ozzie Nelson investigates a haunted house in an outing from 1948.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Oct 26 Listen
At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, meet Lightning Jim as he fights casual justice in the old West. And warm up with comedy from the Great Gildersleeve as he comes to terms with the first cold snap of the fall during a time of fuel shortages.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Oct 25 Listen
Vic and Sade and the Bickersons provide domestic comedy, after eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And, Screen Director's Playhouse brings you Gregory Peck in the western "Yellow Sky."

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Oct 19 Listen
At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, "Singing Guns" from a 1947 broadcast of Studio One.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Oct 18 Listen
Old-Time Radio comes to life, tonight... and every Saturday and Sunday, from eight until eleven... here on The Ideas Network.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Oct 12 Listen
The Lone Ranger rides again, at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And, in an outing from 1940, Fibber McGee turns the house upside down in his search for a missing screwdriver.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Oct 11 Listen
At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, it's Hopalong Cassidy in western action from 1951, and Burns & Allen with comedy from 1943.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Oct 5 Listen
At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, Have Gun Will Travel from 1960. And a case of memory-loss from Jack Benny and friends in a broadcast from 1949.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Oct 4 Listen
Mars invades earth, at eight, when Old-Time Radio Drama brings you a live broadcast of "The War of the Worlds," based on the 1938 script that Howard Koch wrote for the Mercury Theatre, presented onstage by the University Theatre in Madison. Find out more at: http://www.madstage.com/Shows/thewarofthe080812.html

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sun, Sep 28 Listen
Hopalong Cassidy rides into danger, after eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And Ozzie does his best to avoid a "come as you are" party in an outing with Ozzie and Harriet from 1954.

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Sat, Sep 27 Listen
At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, The Lone Ranger rides again in an adventure from 1943. And, the American Trail recreates a key moment in the birth of the U.S. Constitution.

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