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The three "truly missing" episodes that still need to be recreated
1948-07-08 The Last Chance The is the first Auto-Lite broadcast after the failed 60-minute broadcast experiment. The CBS publicity effort was strong behind the return of the series and promotion of the first episode. Why the discs of this episode are missing is a surprise. Somebody took them out of the library for some reason and never returned them. But it's the first episode of a new sponsor, and you would think that there would have been reasons for multiple copies made fo
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4 days ago1 min read
Recreations of “Truly Missing” Suspense episodes
The Suspense Project thanks American Radio Theater, Blue Hours Productions, Project Audion, and Sole Twin Audio for their generous support in the preservation of the Suspense series. Each agreed to allow their productions to be part of the Suspense Project collection at the Internet Archive . “Truly missing” episodes refer to those missing Suspense episodes that were broadcast only one time. The series did present many scripts twice. If one recording was missing, there was a
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6 days ago1 min read
Big Story 1952-04-09: part 1 of this episode has been found
It is from 1952-04-09, episode number 263. It profiles a part-time reporter, Charlie Manning of the Greensboro NC Daily News. Part 1 makes you really desire to hear part 2. Luckily, we have the script as part of the tobacco litigation documents of 20+ years ago. It picks up on p14. This is a link to Manning's original news story as seen in the 1951-03-15 Charlotte NC Observer https://i.servimg.com/u/f61/19/48/94/49/1951-081.png The audio and the script are at https://transfer
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7 days ago1 min read
Resources for researching classic radio
Jerry Haendiges logs (not updated for many years, but still a good start for research projects) https://otrsite.com/radiolog/index.html RadioGoldindex https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/ Magazine and pulp index (great for finding original writer citations for stories adapted for radio) http://www.philsp.com/homeville/cfi/0start.htm World Radio History (for magazine searches and downloadable books; Billboard magazine collection is superb) https://www.worldradiohistory.co
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7 days ago1 min read
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