How many of you remember listening to The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke and other programs on the radio??
If you can remember listening to The Lone Ranger and other programs on the radio you know what that means don't you?? You are an Old Fart!!
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the earliest i remember is the Grand Old Opera on WSM Nashville 3 -
Green Arrow 0 -
Sure do, the Lone Ranger accompanied by a cup of hot cocoa. Also the Green Hornet and The Shadow. 0 -
Fibber McGee & Molly. The Great Gildersleeve The FBI in peace & War Jack Benny The Shadow knows The 64 Dollar question
You're a Lemac now The Scarlet Pimpernel & so many others. Radio was better as you had to use your imagination, Jack Benny's vault was much easier to imagine on the radio. I met the Great Gildersleeve once at a speech Nixon was giving when he ran for Governor of California. I didn't recognize him until I said something that made him chuckle. I said, "You're the Great Gildersleeve!" & that made him chuckle even more.0 -
My family would tune in to the Lone Ranger and one with Broderick Crawford...don't remember the name of his program, though. We all had to sit very close to the radio since the space was so small. This get together was very special and makes for a great memory when it is recalled. 0 -
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The White Mountains (1967)Edit
Life goes on largely as it had in the pre-industrial era, except that all adult humans are subject to Tripod control. Protagonist Will Parker, a thirteen-year-old boy living in the (fictional) English village of Wherton, is looking forward to the next "Capping Day", until a chance meeting with a mysterious fake-capped man named Ozymandias[a] prompts him to discover a world beyond the Tripods' control. He is accompanied by his cousin Henry and later by a French teenager named Jean-Paul Deliet, nicknamed "Beanpole". The novel climaxes with Henry and Beanpole discovering that earlier, when Will was captured by a Tripod, he was unknowingly implanted with a tracking device. When Henry and Beanpole remove the device, a nearby Tripod attacks them, but the boys defeat the Tripod and eventually join the resistance, located in the eponymous White Mountains.
NPR Star Wars Radio Series promotional poster
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Final Blackout
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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows!
https://www.soundboard.com/sb/The_Shadow_Radio_Show0 -
I used to rush home from grade school to listen the Lone Ranger, Sky King, etc every day on the radio. I remember that they would alternate days of the week. Lone Ranger would be on M,W,&F one week then the next T & T. I bought every ring and other stuff they advertised. Life sure was easy back then. 0 -
I remember gas 8 gal for a dollar 0 -
I remember listening to Gunsmoke on the radio. Matt Dillon was voiced by William Conrad (Frank Cannon) fame on TV. In real life Conrad would have made for a fat Marshal Dillon if he would have made the transition from radio to TV! 0 -
I have a collection of Gunsmoke radio CD's I listen to frequently. I've always loved old radio shows.William Conrad as Matt Dillon. Parley Baer as Chester Wesley Proudfoot. Howard McNear as Doc Adams. Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell.0 -
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Sure do. All those plus "Amos and Andy" and "Mystery Theater." The early 50s it was and radio shows were the key to developing a boy's imagination along with books like the Tom Swift series (which I devoured). 0 -
Inner Sanctum 0 -
oh god ....sky king and Penny...everytime Penny wanted a loaf of bread or gallon of milk they'd crank up the twin cessna and fly to the corner store....that wore thin 0 -
I still do..Monday thru Friday at 10 P.M. A station out of Toronto, Canada.
https://www.zoomerradio.ca/listen-live/0 -
"Who knows what evil lives in the hearts of men?The Shadow knows ........."
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Those bring back memories but, I remember most as TV shows? 0 -
Yep, I'm an Old Fart! I even remember Inner Sanctum on the radio as well as Black and White TV. 0 -
Sergeant Preston of the RCMP, Bobby Benson and the B Bar B Ranchers, Fred Allen (Allen's Alley), the Life of Riley, Straight Arrow, Life with Luigi, Smilin' Ed McConnell with Froggy the Gremlin, the Fat Man, Baby Snooks, just for starters. 0 -
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Zorro, Sky King, Lassie, Combat, Gene Aurty, Captain Kangaroo....and the list goes on.0 -
Some of you are confusing radio with TV. 0 -
Amos and Andy. 0 -
The Amos and Andy of radio were white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. 0 -
Lum and Abner at the Jotemdown store. The Bickersons (You say you will, but you won't!) 0
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