# Just Plain Bill

Networks named by its archives: CBS. Heard 1945. 3 episodes.

(03 Episodes) "Just Plain Bill" Old Time Radio's 23-year long run of 15-30 minute situation comedy, "Just Plain Bill," premiered at 6:45 p.m. Eastern Time, Sept. 19, 1932,on CBS Radio and stayed in this time-slot until June 16, 1933. June 19, 1933-1935, CBS moved the program to 7:15 p.m. and in 1935 these nighttime Eps were discontinued. ** Daytime version was added CBS Oct. 16, 1933 /CBS 11:45am 1935 thru June 12, 1936 /NBC 10:30am Sept. 14, 1936 thru March 15, 1940 /NBC Blue Net 3:45pm March 25, 1940 thru July 31, 1942 /NBC 5:30pm Sept. 14, 1942 thru June 29, 1951 /NBC 5:00pm July 2, 1951 thru March 25, 1954 /NBC 5:00 pm Sept. 26, 1954 thru July 1, 1955, /NBC 3:45 p.m. July 4, 1955 thru Sept. 30, 1955 Soap Opera creator King & Queen team, Frank & Anne Hummert, were inspired to write a soap opera surrounding the life of a small-town barber. Several titles were considered for their new 'Soap', including: "Haircutter of Hartville," "Barber of Hartville," also "Bill the Barber." The final choice was very much more simple & plain: "Just Plain Bill" was the final title choice. Bill Davidson, a good-natured, soft-spoken, homespun country philosopher, sensitive to needs of friends & relatives, offered level-headed advice to help them straighten out their tangled lives. Bill's listeners identified with him, because he was just like them, as noted in program opening line. Bill had a wise mind, huge heart and his arms were always open for arising problems within his circle of…

## Sets

- Just Plain Bill 03 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/JustPlainBill

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [VJ-Day](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/just-plain-bill/a4c6c2a44df6), aired 10 August 1945 (15 min): https://archive.org/download/JustPlainBill/Jpb1945-08-10Vj-day.mp3
1. [JPB Evelyn's Last Will & Testament (aka Just Plain Bill) (aka Huckleberry Hill)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/just-plain-bill/75cd416b4832) (26 min): https://archive.org/download/JustPlainBill/JpbEverlynsLastWillTestament.mp3
1. [JPB Poison Fruit (aka JPB 1946)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/just-plain-bill/050962acd560) (15 min): https://archive.org/download/JustPlainBill/JpbPoisonFruit.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.