Old time radio show series available at RUSC Old Time Radio
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FIRST BROADCAST: February 15th 1932
LAST BROADCAST: May 17th 1950
SPONSORS: Robert Burns Panatella, White Owl Cigars, Campbell Soups, Grape Nuts, Chesterfield Cigarettes, Hinds Cream, Hormel Meats, Lever Brothers – Swan Soap, Maxwell House Coffee Time, Block Drugs
CAST: Elvia Allman, Mel Blanc, Margaret Brayton, Sara Berner, Clarence Nash, Elliott Lewis, Mary Lee Robb, Richard Crenna, Joseph Kearns, Eric Snowden, Bea Benaderet, Hal March, Gerald Mohr, Marvin Miller, Wally Maher, Doris Singleton, Dawn Bender, Tommy Bernard, Gale Gordon, Hans Conried
ANNOUNCERS: Ken Niles, Ronald Drake, John Conte, Paul Douglas, Truman Bradley, John Hiestand, Jimmy Wallington, Bill Goodwin, Harry von Zell, Tobe Reed
VOCALISTS: Milton Watson, Tony Martin, Dick Foran, Frank Parker, Truman Bradley, John Hiestand, Jimmy Wallington, Jimmy Cash, Richard Haydn
ORCHESTRAS: Ferde Grofe, Jacques Renard, Eddy Duchin, Henry King, Ray Noble, Jana Garber, Glen Gray, Artie Shaw, Paul Whiteman, Felix Mills, Meredith Willson, Harry Lubin
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Ed Gardner, Ralph Levy, Al Kaye
WRITERS: Harry Conn, Carroll Carroll, John P Medbury, Paul Henning, Harvey Helm, Hal Block, Henry Garson, Keith Fowler, Aaron J Ruben, Harmon J Alexander, Helen Gould Harvey
SOUND EFFECTS: Virgil Reimer, David Light, Al Span
Burns & Allen – 1932-1950
George Burns and Gracie Allen were performers who successfully moved their stand-up comedy act to radio. There were, in total, over 120 episodes of the situation comedies featuring George and Gracie as a married couple, which they were in real life. The audiences loved Gracie, she was too dainty and ladylike for anyone to even conceive disliking her. As George soon learnt! He was quoted as saying “I learned that if I blew a puff of cigar smoke in Gracie’s direction the audience would hate me!”
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.