# Big Sister Networks named by its archives: CBS. Heard 1944. 35 episodes. (34 Episodes) "Big Sister," the creation of Lillian Laugerty, was a 15 minute daily CBS serial, which successfully broadcast from September 14, 1936 until December 26, 1952. Set in the fictional town of Glen Falls, the program dramatized the life of Ruth Evans who sacrificed her own happiness to care for her younger sister Sue and their crippled brother Neddie. After Sue married reporter Jerry Miller, Ruth continued to care for Neddie. She fell in love with Neddie's doctor, John Wayne, who cured Neddie. Ruth and John married on October 19, 1939, but during World War II, John was held in a Japanese prison camp. He returned to Glen Falls suffering from shell-shock. * STARRING: Alice Frost, Nancy Marshall, Marjorie Anderson, Mercedes MaCambridge and Grace Mathews (all portrayed Ruth Evans), Santos Ortega (Dr. Duncan Carvell), Staats Cosworth (Dr. John Wayne), Haila Stoddard, Dorothy McGuire, Peggy Conklin and Fran Carlon (all portrayed Sue Evans Miller). Michael O'Day (Neddie Evans). * Lever Brothers (Rinso) was their one sponsor, until 1946 when Proctor & Gamble (PG) took over sponsorship of this very popular program. Big Sister was, in fact, so popular, that a spin-off daily drama (Bright Horizon) evolved from it. Alice Frost (in her role as Ruth Evans Wayne) appeared on Bright Horizon for a short period of time, to ensure the success of this new daytime drama. * SOURCE: Wikipedia * I have been able to find only episodes 001-028 & 081-084 plus two non-numbered eps ## Sets - Big Sister 34 Eps (Old Time Radio): Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/BigSister - Big Sister (Old Time Radio): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/otr_bigsister ## Episodes, in broadcast order 1. [Meeting with Holly](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/f6f3f8ffdae0), aired 6 June 1944 (14 min): https://archive.org/download/otr_bigsister/BigSister_44_06_06_MeetingWithHolly.mp3 1. [Meeting w Holly Soon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/95cd774ebb34), aired 7 June 1944 (14 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944-06-07MeetingWHollySoon.mp3 1. [Ruth's Bad News](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/12c0c20d2dd1) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944RuthsBadNews.mp3 1. [BigSister1944001](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/1f65d43d7c61) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944001.mp3 1. [BigSister1944002](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/e755dfcbd831) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944002.mp3 1. [BigSister1944003](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/1aeea9d5721e) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944003.mp3 1. [BigSister1944004](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/5004404e402b) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944004.mp3 1. [BigSister1944005](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/fbaf11dc2c3b) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944005.mp3 1. [BigSister1944006](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/db0e81d44eca) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944006.mp3 1. [BigSister1944007](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/83cb124b1d5c) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944007.mp3 1. [BigSister1944008](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/116ef0d5fc39) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944008.mp3 1. [BigSister1944009](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/89818754dcf1) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944009.mp3 1. [BigSister1944010](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/a05abcc263e0) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944010.mp3 1. [BigSister1944011](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/ccce7a566f60) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944011.mp3 1. [BigSister1944012](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/0640e3ff19fc) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944012.mp3 1. [BigSister1944013](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/1f76a97901d3) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944013.mp3 1. [BigSister1944014](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/8defc826876b) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944014.mp3 1. [BigSister1944015](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/038dba1f7d8f) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944015.mp3 1. [BigSister1944016](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/e6e05e98bb34) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944016.mp3 1. [BigSister1944017](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/ad5ef933eb91) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944017.mp3 1. [BigSister1944018](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/f2a1db4d2673) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944018.mp3 1. [BigSister1944019](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/42dd343a101f) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944019.mp3 1. [BigSister1944020](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/e9a105c629e5) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944020.mp3 1. [BigSister1944021](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/31921e66058b) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944021.mp3 1. [BigSister1944022](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/0ddfb85761d9) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944022.mp3 1. [BigSister1944023](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/fd6be886c06c) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944023.mp3 1. [BigSister1944024](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/af74b68b16c9) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944024.mp3 1. [BigSister1944025](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/a8d4538fe63e) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944025.mp3 1. [BigSister1944026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/a8795cb9267a) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944026.mp3 1. [BigSister1944027](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/cd93d86a945f) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944027.mp3 1. [BigSister1944028](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/5e97466a0b80) (11 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944028.mp3 1. [BigSister1944081](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/a468fab1bfb2) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944081.mp3 1. [BigSister1944082](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/0ad6f8b00a27) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944082.mp3 1. [BigSister1944083](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/56a86481bc3d) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944083.mp3 1. [BigSister1944084](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/big-sister/70529e19fc3d) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/BigSister/BigSister1944084.mp3 From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named. Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is.