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Golden Age of Radio and List of old-time radio programs

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Difference between Golden Age of Radio and List of old-time radio programs

Golden Age of Radio vs. List of old-time radio programs

The old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, was an era of radio programming in the United States during which radio was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. Listed below are vintage radio programs associated with old-time radio, also called Radio's Golden Age.

Similarities between Golden Age of Radio and List of old-time radio programs

Golden Age of Radio and List of old-time radio programs have 69 things in common (in Unionpedia): A Prairie Home Companion, Amos 'n' Andy, Arch Oboler's Plays, Archie Andrews, Bob and Ray, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Can You Top This?, Captain Midnight, CBS Radio Workshop, Clara, Lu, and Em, Command Performance (radio), Dick Tracy, Easy Aces, Escape (radio program), Ethel and Albert, Fibber McGee and Molly, GI Jive, Grand Ole Opry, Henry Morgan (humorist), Imagination Theatre, Inner Sanctum Mystery, It Pays to Be Ignorant, Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, Jean Shepherd, Jimmy Durante, Judy Canova, List of old-time American radio people, List of U.S. radio programs, Lum and Abner, ..., Lux Radio Theatre, Mail Call (radio program), Meet Corliss Archer, Meet Millie, Monitor (NBC Radio), National Barn Dance, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Norman Corwin, NPR, Our Miss Brooks, Ozark Jubilee, Quiet, Please, Red Foley, Reg'lar Fellers, Spike Jones, Stan Freberg, Stoopnagle and Budd, Stop Me If You've Heard This One, Suspense (radio drama), Terry and the Pirates (radio serial), The A&P Gypsies, The Aldrich Family, The Bell Telephone Hour, The Campbell Playhouse (radio), The Cisco Kid, The Clicquot Club Eskimos, The Goldbergs (broadcast series), The Goon Show, The Great Gildersleeve, The Halls of Ivy, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, The Mysterious Traveler, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Screen Guild Theater, The United States Steel Hour, The Voice of Firestone, Unshackled!, Vox Pop (radio), Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Expand index (39 more) »

A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion is a weekly radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor that aired live from 1974 to 2016.

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Amos 'n' Andy

Amos 'n' Andy is an American radio and television sitcom set in Harlem, Manhattan's historic black community.

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Arch Oboler's Plays

Arch Oboler's Plays was a radio anthology series written, produced and directed by Arch Oboler.

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Archie Andrews

Archibald "Archie" Andrews, created in 1941 by publisher John L. Goldwater and artist Bob Montana in collaboration with writer Vic Bloom, at the Grand Comics Database.

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Bob and Ray

Bob and Ray were an American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades.

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Bob Hope

Sir Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) known professionally as Bob Hope, was an English-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author.

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Burns and Allen

Burns and Allen was an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen.

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Can You Top This?

Can You Top This? was a radio panel game in which comedians told jokes and tried to top one another.

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Captain Midnight

Captain Midnight (later rebranded on television as Jet Jackson, Flying Commando) is a U.S. adventure franchise first broadcast as a radio serial from 1938 to 1949.

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CBS Radio Workshop

The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental dramatic radio anthology series that aired on CBS from January 27, 1956, until September 22, 1957.

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Clara, Lu, and Em

Clara, Lu, and Em was a radio daytime soap opera.

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Command Performance (radio)

Command Performance was a radio program which originally aired between 1942 and 1949.

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Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould.

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Easy Aces

Easy Aces is an American serial radio comedy (1930–1945).

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Escape (radio program)

Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954.

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Ethel and Albert

Ethel and Albert (aka The Private Lives of Ethel and Albert) was a radio and television comedy series about a married couple, Ethel and Albert Arbuckle, living in the small town of Sandy Harbor.

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Fibber McGee and Molly

Fibber McGee and Molly was an American radio comedy series.

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GI Jive

GI Jive was a 15-minute radio program transmitted by the Armed Forces Radio Service for entertainment of soldiers in World War II.

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Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.

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Henry Morgan (humorist)

Henry Morgan (born Henry Lerner Van Ost Jr.; March 31, 1915 – May 19, 1994) was an American humorist.

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Imagination Theatre

Imagination Theatre is an American syndicated radio drama program produced by Jim French Productions and airing on FM and AM radio stations across the United States.

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Inner Sanctum Mystery

Inner Sanctum Mystery, also known as Inner Sanctum, a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952, was created by producer Himan Brown and was based on the imprint given to the mystery novels of Simon & Schuster.

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It Pays to Be Ignorant

It Pays to Be Ignorant was a radio comedy show which maintained its popularity during a nine-year run on three networks for such sponsors as Philip Morris, Chrysler, and DeSoto.

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Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy

Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio adventure series which maintained its popularity from 1933 to 1951.

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Jean Shepherd

Jean Parker Shepherd, Jr. (July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999) was an American storyteller, radio and TV personality, writer and actor.

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Jimmy Durante

James Francis Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor.

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Judy Canova

Judy Canova (November 20, 1913 – August 5, 1983) (another source gives her birth date as November 20, 1916),DeLong, Thomas A. (1996).

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List of old-time American radio people

Listed below are actors and personalities heard on vintage radio programs, plus writers and others associated with Radio's Golden Age.

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List of U.S. radio programs

The radio programs listed below are all from the United States.

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Lum and Abner

Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was aired from 1931 to 1954.

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Lux Radio Theatre

Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company in 1943 /1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954–55).

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Mail Call (radio program)

Mail Call was an American radio program that entertained American soldiers from 1942 until 1945, during World War II.

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Meet Corliss Archer

Meet Corliss Archer was an American radio program.

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Meet Millie

Meet Millie, a situation comedy about a wisecracking Manhattan secretary from Brooklyn, made a transition from radio to television in the early 1950s.

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Monitor (NBC Radio)

Monitor was an American weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955 until January 26, 1975.

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National Barn Dance

National Barn Dance, broadcast by WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois starting in 1924, was one of the first American country music radio programs and a direct precursor of the Grand Ole Opry.

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NBC Symphony Orchestra

The NBC Symphony Orchestra was a radio orchestra established by David Sarnoff, the president of the Radio Corporation of America, especially for the celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini.

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Norman Corwin

Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Our Miss Brooks

Our Miss Brooks is an American sitcom starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high-school English teacher.

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Ozark Jubilee

Ozark Jubilee, based in Springfield, Missouri, was a United States network television program to feature country music's top stars of the day, in the 1950s.

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Quiet, Please

Quiet, Please! was a radio fantasy and horror program created by Wyllis Cooper, also known for creating Lights Out.

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Red Foley

Clyde Julian Foley (June 17, 1910 – September 19, 1968), known professionally as Red Foley, was an American singer, musician, and radio and TV personality who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II.

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Reg'lar Fellers

Reg'lar Fellers was a long-running newspaper comic strip adapted into a feature film, a radio series on NBC, and two animated cartoons.

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Spike Jones

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing in satirical arrangements of popular songs and classical music.

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Stan Freberg

Stan Freberg (born Stanley Friberg; August 7, 1926 – April 7, 2015) was an American author, actor, recording artist, voice artist, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director, whose career began in 1944.

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Stoopnagle and Budd

Stoopnagle and Budd were a popular radio comedy team of the 1930s, who are sometimes cited as forerunners of the Bob and Ray style of radio comedy.

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Stop Me If You've Heard This One

Stop Me If You've Heard This One was a comedy radio series, created by the actor-humorist Cal Tinney (February 2, 1908-December 2, 1993) and sponsored by Quaker Oats.

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Suspense (radio drama)

Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1942 through 1962.

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Terry and the Pirates (radio serial)

Terry and the Pirates was a radio serial adapted from the comic strip of the same name created in 1934 by Milton Caniff.

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The A&P Gypsies

The A&P Gypsies was a musical series broadcast on radio beginning in 1924.

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The Aldrich Family

The Aldrich Family, a popular radio teenage situation comedy (July 2, 1939-April 19, 1953), was also presented in films, television and comic books.

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The Bell Telephone Hour

The Bell Telephone Hour (also known as The Telephone Hour) is a concert series which began April 29, 1940, on NBC Radio and was heard on NBC until June 30, 1958.

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The Campbell Playhouse (radio)

The Campbell Playhouse (1938–40) is a live CBS radio drama series directed by and starring Orson Welles.

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The Cisco Kid

The Cisco Kid is a fictional character found in numerous film, radio, television and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story "The Caballero's Way", published in the collection Heart of the West, as well as in Everybody's Magazine, v17, July 1907.

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The Clicquot Club Eskimos

The Clicquot Club Eskimos was a popular musical variety radio show, first heard in 1923, featuring a banjo orchestra directed by Harry Reser.

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The Goldbergs (broadcast series)

The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio, and from 1949 to 1956 on American television.

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The Goon Show

The Goon Show was a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme.

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The Great Gildersleeve

The Great Gildersleeve was a radio situation comedy broadcast in the USA from August 31, 1941,Dunning, John.

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The Halls of Ivy

The Halls of Ivy is an American situation comedy that ran from 1950–52 on NBC radio, created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn.

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The Mercury Theatre on the Air

The Mercury Theatre on the Air (first known as First Person Singular) is a radio series of live radio dramas created by Orson Welles.

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The Mysterious Traveler

The Mysterious Traveler was an anthology radio series, a magazine, and a comic book.

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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is an old-time radio show which aired in the USA from 1939 to 1950.

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The Screen Guild Theater

The Screen Guild Theater is a radio anthology series broadcast from 1939 until 1952 during the Golden Age of Radio.

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The United States Steel Hour

The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963.

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The Voice of Firestone

The Voice of Firestone is a long-running radio and television program of classical music.

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Unshackled!

Unshackled! is a radio drama series produced by Pacific Garden Mission, in Chicago, Illinois, that first aired on September 23, 1950.

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Vox Pop (radio)

Vox Pop was a popular radio program of interviews, quizzes and human interest features, sometimes titled Sidewalk Interviews (1936) and Voice of the People (the name is from the Latin "Vox Populi", meaning "Voice of the People").

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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962.

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Golden Age of Radio and List of old-time radio programs Comparison

Golden Age of Radio has 294 relations, while List of old-time radio programs has 531. As they have in common 69, the Jaccard index is 8.36% = 69 / (294 + 531).

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