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2 unusual facts about old-time radio


Donna Diana

The overture served as the theme for the American radio (1947–1955) series Challenge of the Yukon, which later migrated to the TV series (1955–1958) Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

Gertrude Warner

Gertrude "Trudy" Warner was a voice actor in the Golden Age of Radio.


Cleve Cartmill

Before embarking on his career as a writer for pulp magazines, Cartmill had a wide number of jobs including newspaperman, radio operator and accountant, as well as, ironically, a short spell at the American Radium Products Company.

Eddy Howard

Howard's star rose again during the 1960s, as part of the revival of interest in Big Band music and old-time radio that was collectively called "Nostalgia" in popular culture.

Emerson Buckley

From March 1950 to January 1952 Buckley conducted the music of Elliot Jacoby for the American old-time radio series 2000 Plus.

Tales of Fatima

Tales of Fatima was an old-time radio show from 1949 starring Basil Rathbone, who had by that time become famous for his long run portraying the world's most famous sleuth in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.


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Barbara Jean Wong

She played Judy Barton, one of the twins in the children's Christmas old time radio show The Cinnamon Bear.

Ted Mallie

By the time Channel 9 moved its studios to Secaucus, New Jersey in 1986, three years after they transferred their city of license there, he and Phil Tonken were the last of the WOR radio announcers from the old-time radio era to still be employed at the station.

The Brown Hornet

The Brown Hornet's name is a play on the name of the old time radio hero The Green Hornet.

Tohono Chul Park

Clifford Goldsmith, creator of the old-time radio series Henry Aldrich, rented the home at one point.