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20th-century American radio programs. 1950s radio programs. Hidden categories: Category series navigation decade and century. Template Category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 201–300 pages. Automatic category TOC generates standard Category TOC.
Welcome to Old Radio World! Here you will find some of the most popular radio programs of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Before television, radio provided entertainment by presenting radio plays and programs of mystery, intrigue, and comedy. There was also news and soap operas.
Starting before TV was a really big thing, the old CBS Radio shows filled the airwaves with audio-only entertainment and news of every kind. Here's a look at some of the programming!
The Golden Age of American Radio features six half-hour shows : • The Horrible Hamburger starring Vincent Price , a mystery from The Saint in 1950. • Meridian 7-1212 by Irving Reis , from Columbia Workshop Presents in 1939.
By the late 50's, Radio did start experimenting with more alternative programmes and probably the most major step towards the 60's TV 'Monty Python' etc. was 'The Goon Show' and Michael Bentine's 'Round the Bend'. These programmes based on complete madness and unbelievable situations! Music as well was changing.
By the mid-1950s American radio had moved beyond its Golden Age to modern formats such as “Top 40,” “alternative” or “underground” FM, talk shows, and public-service programming. A selection of shows from American radio’s Golden Age is presented in the table.
The original radio show, which ran from 1928 to 1960, was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden) and Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), as well as incidental characters.
A variety of outstanding radio dramas from the late-1930s to the1950s when radio dominated family home entertainment until TV took over.
It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice for scripted programming, variety and dramatic shows.
Since 1999, family-run OTRCAT.com (Old Time Radio Catalog) has all your favorite broadcasts from the golden age of radio -- 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960's. We pride ourselves in continuing the tradition of sharing OTR show with both young and old radio listeners with free daily downloads.