# Adventures of Topper

Networks named by its archives: NBC. Heard 1945. 5 episodes.

(03 Episodes) "The Adventures of Topper" Broadcast on the NBC network (WEAF, New York), "The Adventures of Topper" is a wonderful radio situation comedy regarding an old codger who is (pleasently) haunted by the ghost of a beautiful, rich, philandering, young woman (Marion Kirby) & her equally ghostly male companion/husband George. In the 1945-07-19 episode, Topper clearly describes storyline plot to his sweet wife, Malveena - and she immediately calls a shrink! Roland Young assumed the role of Cosmo Topper, Hope Emerson that of Marion Kirby, and Tony Barrett carried the role of her husband, George Kirby. Sponsored by Post Toasties and Maxwell House Coffee, "The Adventures of Topper" was created by Thorne Smith, written by Stanley Wolf, and produced & directed by Kirby Hawkes. Richard Kollmar was program announcer. At a much later date, this comedic radio program successfully graduated to television. A hilarious program which had Topper's housekeeper continuously raising her arms in "fear" of the 'ghostly' Kirbys! ** There are many "The Adventures of Topper" episodes available online, but I have discovered they are primarily alternate titles of the 3 Eps within this file. I will continue my ongoing OTR "web-hunt," for further episodes of this great program! OTR * def gp ddh

## Sets

- Adventures of Topper 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/AdventuresOfTopper
- The Adventures Of Topper (Old Time Radio): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/TheAdventuresOfTopper

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [00.00.00 Malveena Hires A Psychiatrist](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/topper/9eae4cc800c5), aired 1945 (24 min): https://archive.org/download/TheAdventuresOfTopper/00.00.00MalveenaHiresAPsychiatrist.mp3
1. [Malveena Hires a Psychiatrist (aka 1945-07-12 & 45-07-05 Malveena Hires A Psych 45-07-12 Telephone Repairman aka Topper Sues 2 Psychs)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/topper/a2f12956f144), aired 19 July 1945 (24 min): https://archive.org/download/AdventuresOfTopper/Topper1945-07-19MalveenaHiresAPsychiatristaka1945-07-1245-07-05MalveenaHiresAPsych_45-07-12TelephRepairman_akaTopperSues2Psychs.mp3
1. [Malvena Mother Visits](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/topper/63d56141ec18), aired 30 August 1945 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/TheAdventuresOfTopper/45.08.30MalvenaMotherVisits.mp3
1. [Malveena's Mother Visits (aka Pretends To Be Dead - Measles)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/topper/c899b7fe78d8), aired 30 August 1945 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/AdventuresOfTopper/Topper1945-08-30MalveenasMotherVisitsakaPretendsToBeDead-measles.mp3
1. [Rajah (aka Spiritualist aka 1945)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/topper/162a11e4eb88), aired 6 September 1945 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/AdventuresOfTopper/Topper1945-09-06RajahakaSpiritualistAka1945.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.