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December 10, 2023
(all times Eastern - all start times approximate)

03:30 PM  The Crime Club
 The Crime Club
04:00 PM  Burns & Allen Show
 George and Gracie first performed on air over the BBC while touring England after an NBC executive rejected their act insisting that Gracie’s voice is unfit for radio. Burns and Allen won a regular spot on The Robert Burns Panatella Program February 22, 1932 and moved into the top spot when Guy Lombardo left the series. The Burns and Allen Show aired through May 17, 1950 on radio and for another decade on television. Jack Benny and George Burns were best friends in real life and often were guests on each other’s programs.
04:30 PM  Jimmy Durante Show
 Jimmy Durante Show
05:00 PM  When Radio Was
 Radio Spirits' nationally syndicated radio program hosted by old-time radio expert Greg Bell
05:30 PM  Fibber McGee & Molly
 The husband-and-wife vaudeville team of Jim and Marian Jordan began their radio careers in Peoria on a bet from Jim’s brother. The Jordans were heard as The O’Henry Twins and The Air Scouts before Don Quinn created Smackout in 1931. Quinn revamped the show as Fibber McGee and Molly in 1935 when Johnson’s Wax signed on as sponsor.
06:00 PM  When Radio Was
 Radio Spirits' nationally syndicated radio program hosted by old-time radio expert Greg Bell
07:00 PM  Gunsmoke
 Radio’s greatest adult western told the story of Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. Gunsmoke grew out of a request from CBS founder William Paley for a Philip Marlowe in the Old West, and featured grimly realistic stories set in the vicinity of Dodge City, the Gommorrah of the West, with William Conrad as Dillon.
07:30 PM  Casey, Crime Photographer
 Jack Flashgun Casey was first introduced in the March 1934 issue of Black Mask, the classic pulp fiction magazine. Created by pulp wordsmith George Harmon Coxe, Casey appeared in dozens of stories in Black Mask, which were later collected into six books. Flashgun Casey came to radio as a CBS sustaining series on July 7, 1943. The series was renamed Casey, Press Photographer in 1944 and became Casey, Crime Photographer on September 12, 1945.
08:00 PM  Dragnet
 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent... One of the most popular police dramas in the history of broadcasting, Dragnet aired on NBC Radio from June 10, 1949 through February 7, 1957 and on television from 1952-59 and 1967-72. Dragnet introduced a new era of documentary-style realism.
08:30 PM  Academy Award Theatre
 Academy Award Theater was a half-hour dramatic anthology series presenting radio adaptations of movies that had been nominated for or had won Academy Awards. While the show was a success with critics and audiences alike, it went off the air after only nine months and 39 episodes.

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