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Weekend, Vol. II

Heard
1937–1955
Episodes
14
Language
English

OTR Weekend, Vol. II

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2000 Plus - When Worlds Met

Barrie Craig - Tennis Anyone?

Bing Crosby - Peggy Lee and Fred Allen

Black Museum - Khaki Handkerchief

Bold Venture - Tappard of Pizzaro

Cavalcade of America - Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

Command Performance - Tallulah Bankhead

Dr. Kildare - Angela and Steven Kester

Harry Lime - Blue Caribou

Jimmy Durante - Lucille Ball

Lights Out - Oxychloride X

Lux Theatre - It Happened One Night

Mercury Theater - Our Town

Our Miss Brooks - Weekend at Crystal Lake

A selection of fourteen old-time radio files, run through an audio editor to remove background noise, pull up volume where needed, and bring the voices of past stars back down to earth, victims of inept compression. There are two hour-long theatricals and 12 half-hour productions to parse out over a two-day weekend, i.e., six halfs topped by one hour-long show. Four comedies (Bold Venture's dry humor included) / variety shows. A couple of detective shows. Two sci-fi, one biography, a classic play, and a classic movie, so something for everyone. I would have put in a western, but so many of those files are in relatively good shape due to the enduring popularity of the genre. Orson Welles fans rejoice: three of these shows feature his immortal voice.

The Bold Venture, Black Museum, and Lux Theater episodes were chipmunked, needing speed decreased to normal, so Ms.' Bacall & Colbert, and Mssrs. Gable, Bogart, and Welles got their natural deeper voices back. Barrie Craig,…

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Pioneer Woman Physician

    · 29 min

  2. Oxychloride X

    · 24 min

  3. It Happened One Night

    · 1 h 02 min

  4. Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Edwards

    · No. 29 · 30 min

  5. Making A Movie With Lucille Ball

    · 29 min

  6. Weekend At Crystal Lake

    · 24 min

  7. Angela and Steven Kester

    · 28 min

  8. When Worlds Met

    · No. 8 · 29 min

  9. Two Dead Men(Tennis Anyone)

    · No. 190 · 23 min

  10. Guests Peggy Lee, Fred Allen

    No date given · 31 min

  11. Bold Venture - Tappard of Pizzaro

    No date given · 27 min

  12. Blue Caribou

    No date given · 27 min

  13. Our Town

    No date given · 58 min

  14. Khaki Handkerchief, the

    No date given · 25 min

Where it comes from 1

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 Weekend, Vol. II

    Old Time Radio · MPDMedia · 14 episodes here · archive.org

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

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

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