On this week’s edition, we’ll get into the Christmas Spirit with Blondie and Frank Graham starring in Jeff Regan Investigator. Plus, the Christmas Classic Miracle on 34th Street, as heard on the Screen Director’s Playhouse. Great sounds from radio’s Golden Age!
Episode Segments:
Radio's Golden Age: Blondie & Jeff Regan Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake star as the Bumsteads in BLONDIE from 12-25-39. Blondie reads A Christmas Carol to Baby Dumpling. Camel Cigarettes, CBS. (Read the article about Blondie in the Autumn 2012 issue of Nostalgia Digest.) Then, it's JEFF REGAN, INVESTIGATOR from 12-21-49. “Some Enchanted Carhop” stars Frank Graham as Regan. A mysterious stranger sends a series of gifts to a young woman. Sustaining, CBS.
Radio's Golden Age: Screen Director's Playhouse On this episode of SCREEN DIRECTORS’ PLAYHOUSE from 12-23-49, its “Miracle on 34th Street," starring Edmund Gwenn in a radio version of the 1947 film, about a department store Santa who is put on trial. Sustaining, NBC.