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Family Theater is a dramatic anthology radio series that aired from 1947 to 1957. This episode is the story of "Sugarfoot Calhoun", an American minstrel legend who decides to go into television. A heart attack just before the first show forces his reluctant son to follow an old tradition. Starring Rosalind Russell (hostess), Eddie Cantor, Merrill Ross (announcer), Ann Tobin, George Neise, Leo Cleary, and GeGe Pearson.

Family Theater is a dramatic anthology radio series that aired from 1947 to 1957. In this episode, a poor juggler of old France gives the mother of the Christ child the only present he can.

Family Theater is a dramatic anthology radio series that aired from 1947 to 1957. This episode is the story of Sir William, a slayer of Rhinosodragons, and his quest for courage. Starring Fred Allen (host, narrator), Dennis Day, Howard McNear, Jay Novello, Irene Tedrow, Ken Christy, Gene Baker (announcer), Barbara Eiler, and Charlotte Lawrence.

Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you Escape - designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half-hour of high adventure! This episode is a comedy-mystery about a dumb wife who imagines a gangster is in love with her and the trouble it gets her husband into.

Family Theater is a dramatic anthology radio series that aired from 1947 to 1957. In this episode a beautiful visitor from another planet is given a jay-walking ticket by the local sheriff. Starring Eleanor Powell (hostess), Raymond Burr, Virginia Gregg, Jeanne Bates, Leo Curley, Tony La Frano (announcer), Robert Emlin.

Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you Escape - designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half-hour of high adventure! In this episode, a gangster-gone-straight turns down a quick profit to do the "right" thing in wartime. Starring Marvin Miller and Jack Petruzzi.

Family Theater is a dramatic anthology radio series that aired from 1947 to 1957. This episode is a powerful drama about a marriage in deep trouble. Starring Betty Lynn (hostess), Jeff Chandler, Ann Blyth, Tony La Frano (anouncer), Martha Shaw, Norma Jean Nilsson, Norman Field, and Michael Hayes.

The misguided governor of Washington Territory is trying to force the Indians onto poor land. William Wyatt tries to help.

During the Depression, a family somehow manages to get along through the years. Glenn Langan, Alma Lawton, Ken Harvey, Colleen Collins, Pattee Chapman, Marion Richmond, J. Edgar Hoover (host), Ruth Hussey.

A little British orphan comes to America, finding that adjusting to a new life is made easier by a new "boyfriend".

The story of Jesus' journey to Jerusalem with his family, when he was 12 years of age.

In this adventure series, Orson Welles reprised his movie role as Harry Lime, the character created by novelist Graham Greene in The Third Man.

It is right from the beginning, when you first hear Boris Karloff as host and narrator, that you suspect you are about to hear something frightening. But when another classically creepy voice is heard, that of Peter Lorre, then you know for certain what is coming!

Jack Benny continues to get the laughs with this collection of six spoofs that highlight both fairy tales and classic radio shows. This hysterically humorous collection is a must-have for any comedy or Jack Benny fan. A brilliant, talented comic, Benny continues to captivate audiences of all ages with his laugh-out-loud situational comedies and parodies.

A young woman hires Sam to help her fiance... who doesn't want any help. He's already behind bars, but did he commit the crime? There are many contradictions and paradoxes in this caper!

William Bendix hosts and plays Father Time. He takes a look back at 1947, takes a hopeful look ahead to 1948, and endeavors to find the happiest person in the world.

Monstrously mischievous masters Raymond Edward Johnson and Paul McGrath lead you through the creaking door for three hours of twists and turns - and we're not just talking about the knots you'll find in your stomach. Radio rogues Jackson Beck, Agnes Moorehead, and more are frighteningly fabulous in these six wickedly suspenseful stories. Murder is on everyone's mind, but their characters have heart...someone else's that is...clutched in their cruel hands.

Sam causes a stir at a San Francisco school for girls when he comes to investigate a string of thefts.

Murder on skis at a rich man's winter home. Steve Dunne, Lurene Tuttle, William Conrad.

Mysterious doings, deadly secrets...passwords, countersigns, and concealed weapons...you don't know who to trust! The world of espionage comes to life before your very ears in this collection of Great Radio Spies! Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joseph Cotten, Rex Harrison, Stacy Harris, Dana Andrews, Herbert Marshall, and more star in 10 full hours of globe-trotting intrigue and secret agent adventure.