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Upgrades - April

Heard
1942–1959
Episodes
22
Language
English

OTR Upgrades - April 2023

More about it

A dozen shows, about 5 1/2 hours of old-time radio entertainment, presented as close to the original format as I can muster. Background noise reduced, chipmunking eliminated, volume no longer earsplitting. Lux Theater's Wake Island file was the most challenging, plagued with high-pitched digital artifacts

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. The Mystery Singer

    · No. 37 · 30 min

  2. Wake Island with Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Broderick Crawford

    · 1 h 02 min

  3. Jan. 5, 1943 - Nothing Up My Sleeve, with Elissa Landi, George Couloris

    · 30 min

  4. King Midas and the Golden Touch

    · 27 min

  5. April 14, 1943 - A Quiet Evening at Home

    · 30 min

  6. Gildy Rebuffed By Eve (100th episode)

    · 29 min

  7. Speak Ever So Gently w/Ginger Rogers

    · No. 623 · 29 min

  8. Song of the Slasher

    · No. 225 · 29 min

  9. Fortune in Furs

    · No. 27 · 29 min

  10. This Love Of Ours, starring Rita Hayworth

    · 58 min

  11. The Corpse I Didn't Kill

    · No. 38 · 30 min

  12. The Quiet Young Man

    · 28 min

  13. Mrs. Parkington, with Rosalind Russell

    · 29 min

  14. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (edit)

    · No. 45 · 24 min

  15. School On Saturday

    · 30 min

  16. Rehearsing a Play

    · No. 71 · 30 min

  17. Ethel Barrymore, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope

    · No. 22 · 1 h 29 min

  18. Modernaires

    · No. 376 · 14 min

  19. Country Boy

    · No. 2 · 17 min

  20. Charlie Meeker

    · 26 min

  21. The Five Books Of Owen Deaver

    · No. 18 · 24 min

  22. Orbit the Moon

    No date given · 12 min

Where it comes from 2

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. OTR Upgrades - April 2023

    Listeners' uploads · MPDMedia · 12 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

  2. OTR Upgrades - April 2024

    Listeners' uploads · MPDMedia · 10 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

Uploaded to the Internet Archive by the person named, outside its radio collections.

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