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Matinee Theater

Networks
CBS (as its archives name them)
Heard
1944–1945
Episodes
24

MATINEE THEATER

More about it

Matinee Theater represented a serious attempt by CBS to provide quality dramatic programming for its Sunday afternoon listeners. A continuation of the series Dangerously Yours, it was renamed Matinee Theater with a view towards presenting "a greater range of stories". That broader scope was able to accommodate such episodes as "Beautiful Dreamer" (the Stephen Foster story) and "The Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning". Victor Jory and several different female stars paired to bring classics like "Wuthering Heights", "Jane Eyre", and "The Scarlet Pimpernel" to the audience, as well as a number of more contemporary works. The first of these thirty-minute broadcasts aired October 22, 1944 and the final one on April 8, 1945. The Vick Chemical Company sponsored throughout. From the Old Time Radio Researcher's Group. See "Note" Section below for more information on the OTRR.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Wuthering Heights

    · No. 1 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  2. Beloved Enemy

    · No. 2 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  3. My Favorite Wife

    · No. 3 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  4. Penny Serenade

    · No. 4 · 29 min · Not offered here: why

  5. Scarlet Pimpernel

    · No. 5 · 29 min · Not offered here: why

  6. Mr and Mrs Smith

    · No. 6 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  7. Jane Eyre

    · No. 7 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  8. Hold Back the Dawn

    · No. 8 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  9. Elizabeth the Queen

    · No. 9 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  10. A Stable In Bethlehem Pennsylvania

    · 29 min

  11. A Stable in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

    · No. 10 · 29 min · Not offered here: why

  12. Random Harvest

    · No. 12 · 29 min · Not offered here: why

  13. Smilin Through

    · 29 min

  14. Smilin' Through

    · No. 13 · 29 min · Not offered here: why

  15. Rebecca

    · No. 14 · 29 min · Not offered here: why

  16. Beautiful Dreamer

    · No. 15 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  17. Reap the Wild Wind

    · No. 17 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  18. Intermezzo

    · No. 18 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  19. The Highwayman

    · No. 19 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  20. Rendevous at Mayerling

    · No. 21 · 29 min · Not offered here: why

  21. The Pirate of Orleans

    · No. 22 · 29 min · Not offered here: why

  22. Till We Meet Again

    · No. 23 · 29 min · Not offered here: why

  23. Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett And Robert Browning

    · No. 24 · 30 min · Not offered here: why

  24. A Man Named Jones

    · No. 25 · 29 min · Not offered here: why

Where it comes from 3

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Matinee Theater - Single Episodes

    Old Time Radio Researchers · Old Time Radio Researchers Group · 22 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

  2. Matinee Theater 1945-01-14 Smilin' Through

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  3. Matinee Theater 1944-12-24 A Stable in Bethlehem Pennsylvania

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

21 more sets hold only episodes played here from a set above.

A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.

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