It's Time To Smile. January 15, 1941. Red net. Sponsored by: Ipana, Sal Hepatica. Eddie's opening monologue is about winter sports and skiing. Dinah Shore sings, "Number Ten, Lullaby Lane." Eddie is in charge of his own motion picture company and guest Phil Harris is going to star in his next picture. Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Cookie Fairchild and His Orchestra, Phil Harris, Harry Von Zell (announcer).

Love Story. August 13, 1937. Program #21. MacGregor and Sollie syndication, RCA transcription. "Devil Wind". Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert.

Radio Guild. April 13, 1940. Blue Network. "The Ineffable Essence Of Nothing". Sustaining. "A fantasy for radio." A truly creative experiment in radio drama, and thoroughly enjoyable. A man walks through an enchanted doorway into his own future. The script was broadcast twice previously in 1938, "the second performace in its second version.". Ian Martin, Ian MacAllaster, Ranald MacDougall (writer), Eric Dressler, Howard Smith, Harry Nevel, Lotte Stavisky, Kay Lee, Gene Hamilton (? announcer)

Rogers Of The Gazette. June 10, 1953. CBS net. Sustaining. Will is planning to write a story about Lance O'Neill, Illyria's famous artist, despite the opposition of the powerful Mrs. Hannibal. No music cues. The date above is possibly the recording date, July 8, 1953 is possibly the broadcast date. See cat. #65176 for the final show with music cues. Will Rogers Jr., E. Jack Neuman (writer), Georgia Ellis, Parley Baer, Byron Kane, John Dehner, Mary McGovern, Howard McNear, Bob Lemond (announcer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Walter Brown Neuman (writer).

Rocky Fortune. February 16, 1954. NBC net. "One Husband Too Many". Sustaining. Fine cops and robbers with Frank in a straight non-singing role. Well-written and fine Sinatra. A case of too many husbands after Rocky is hired by a beautiful woman to kill her husband...for $5000!. Frank Sinatra, Betty Lou Gerson, Barney Phillips, Norm Sickle (writer), Andrew C. Love (director), John Stevenson, Maurice Hart

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The Shadow. September 26, 1937. Mutual net. "The Death House Rescue". Sponsored by: Blue Coal. The first show of the series with "The Shadow" as a force against crime and not just a phantom announcer. Just before an innocent man is to be executed for murder, The Shadow uses mental telepathy to get the goods on the real killers. A good show with an intelligent plot. Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead, William Johnstone, Jeanette Nolan, Ray Collins (triples), Paul Stewart, Elia Kazan, Everett Sloane (quadruples), Paul Huber (commercial spokesman), Frank Readick (opening and closing voice), Arthur Whiteside (announcer), Edward Hale Bierstadt (writer), Elsie Thompson (organist), Clark Andrews (producer), Martin Gabel (director), Edith Meiser (story editor), Walter B. Gibson (story consultant), J. R. Poppele (sound engineer), Thomas Coffin Cooke (commercial spokesman, as "John Barclay"), Walter Gibson (writer).

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SOURCES: Wikipedia and The RadioGoldindex.com

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