Lorenzo Jones (Lorenzo de Angelis) was a daytime radio series which aired on NBC in different timeslots over an 18-year span. Produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, the series could be classified with its own unique category of “comedy soap opera”, highlighted by organist Rosa Rio’s rollicking rendition of the opening theme music, “Funiculi, Funicula”. During the early 1950s, the 15-minute […]
Monthly Archives: May 2018
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Howdy Doody was an American children’s television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by E. Roger Muir and telecast on the NBC network in the United States from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960. It was a pioneer in children’s television programming and set the pattern for many similar shows. One of the first television series produced at NBC […]
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The Adventures of Father Brown is a 1945 radio crime drama that aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System, adapted from G. K. Chesterton’s stories of Father Brown. The 30-minute detective series starred Karl Swenson as Father Brown, introduced as “the best loved detective of them all.” (Original plans called for “either Walter Huston or Spencer Tracy in the title role.”) Bill […]
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Little Orphan Annie is a daily American comic strip, created by Harold Gray (1894-1968), that first appeared on August 5, 1924. The title, suggested by an editor at the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, was inspired by James Whitcomb Riley’s popular 1885 poem “Little Orphant Annie” which begins: Little Orphant Annie’s come to our house to stay, […]