It's Easter Sunday, and we'll hear an Easter Week broadcast of THE HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE, with George Brent starring in One Foot in Heaven. We'll also tune into THE BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW from 1948, with Bill Goodwin, Meredith Willson and the Orchestra. And Jimmy Stewart stars in the western drama SIX SHOOTER.
Episode Segments:
Radio's Golden Age: Hallmark Playhouse
HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE (4-14-49) “One Foot in Heaven” starring George Brent as a Methodist minister who sets up his parsonage in a small Iowa town. Hallmark Cards, CBS.
BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW (2-19-48) With Bill Goodwin, Meredith Willson and the Orchestra. Gracie’s ill-timed meat purchase stimulates George to try make a killing in the cattle market. Maxwell House Coffee, NBC.
Radio's Golden Age: Six Shooter SIX SHOOTER (12-13-53) James Stewart is Texas plainsman Britt Ponset, who encounters an actor friend and finds himself in a production of Hamlet. Sustaining, NBC.