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Weekend, Vol. IV

Networks
CBS (as its archives name them)
Heard
1937–1974
Episodes
14
Language
English

OTR Weekend, Vol. IV

More about it

A selection of old-time radio from 1937 to 1974. As this is Memorial Day weekend, several episodes are from the eras of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Broadway legends include Agnes Moorehead on CBS Radio Mystery Theater and an episode of Inner Sanctum, Helen Hayes in The Glass Menagerie (opposite Montgomery Clift), and of course The Big Show with Tallulah Bankhead, Rex Harrison, and Judy Holliday. Herbert Marshall stars in Cavalcade of America, and Elliot Lewis in Suspense.

Jack Benny - background noise (bgn) lowered, volume heightened

Inner Sanctum - speed lowered from 45 to 33 1/3, so Agnes Moorehead recognizable again

Suspense - minimal update, just the file name was wrong (not an Inner Sanctum ep)

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - edited out first six minutes of Kansas City news and upped vol.

The Shadow - lowered volume, removed bgn

Mystery Theatre 1967 - lowered volume and bgn

Theatre Guild 'The Glass Menagerie' - bgn lowered, speed slowed back to 33 1/3

Cavalcade of America - bgn lowered

Fibber McGee - vol lowered and speed reduced to normal

Command Performance - vol heightened and given more treble, and bgn lowered

The Big Show - bgn and volume lowered

Adventures of Philip Marlowe - bgn, speed, and vol lowered

Have Gun Will Travel - bgn and squink (defect in file) removed, volume readjusted

Gabriel Heater: 1 Year After Pearl Harbor - bgn and vol lowered

The rest of this series:

https://archive.org/details/OTRWeekendVolI…

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Murder By The Dead.mp

    · 29 min

  2. Scrap Drive

    · 31 min

  3. One Year after Pearl Harbor

    · 3:10

  4. Rochester's Horse is in the Kentucky Derby

    · No. 7 · 24 min

  5. What Price Freedom

    · 29 min

  6. Barbara Stanwyck, Dick Haymes

    · No. 131 · 30 min

  7. The Ebony Link

    · 28 min

  8. Judy Holliday, Carmen Miranda

    · No. 21 · 1 h 28 min

  9. The Glass Menagerie

    · No. 80 · 54 min

  10. Concerto for A Killer, starring Elliot Lewis

    · 30 min

  11. The Murder Prophet

    · 25 min

  12. Englishman (British Courage) (9th Earl of Aylsbury)

    · No. 8 · 24 min

  13. Kitchen Table

    · 26 min

  14. The Old Ones Are Hard To Kill

    · 51 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. IV

    Old Time Radio · MPDMedia · 14 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.

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