Old time radio show series available at RUSC Old Time Radio
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FIRST BROADCAST: February 12th 1940
LAST BROADCAST: March 1st 1951
SPONSORS: Kelloggs
CAST: Clayton Bud Collyer, Michael Fitzmaurice, Joan Alexander, Julian Noa, Jackie Kelk, Gary Merrill, Stacy Harris, Matt Crowley, Ronald Liss
ANNOUNCERS: Jackson Beck
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: George Lowther, Robert and Jessica Maxwell, Mitchell Grayson, Allen Ducovny
WRITERS: Jack Johnstone, B P Freeman
SOUND EFFECTS: Jack Kearne, Al Binnie, Keene Crockett, John Glennon
Adventures of Superman – 1938-1951
This juvenile adventure series was first broadcast on Mutual in 1940 with Clayton (Bud) Collyer starring as Superman/Clark Kent. It first began as a fifteen-minute show but later, in 1949, it moved to ABC as a thirty-minute Saturday show with Michael Fitzmaurice as Superman. At the end of its thirteen-year run it had totalled over 1600 episodes. The opening for the show was one of radio’s best, setting the stage for those flights into fantasy with a cascade of voices, narration and sound effects. “Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!” “Look! Up in the sky!” “It’s a bird!” “It’s a plane!” “It’s Superman!”
RUSC Old Time Radio (or RU Sitting Comfortably to give the site its full title) is a web site specializing in the wonderful world of old time radio. It is run by a crazy guy (that's me) who has nothing better to do than listen to old radio shows all day. To find out more visit the web site at www.rusc.com. All the old time radio shows on RUSC are understood to be in the public domain. RUSC has been on the web since January 1999 and is run on a not-for-profit basis.