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Aug. 28th, 2006 02:48 pm.
I just happened to wander by the Internet Archive, looking for something else, and thought to look into their holdings of old radio shows. I'm pleased to report they have a load of them, including "Gunsmoke" (and two of those are rehearsals, in which the very able cast members wander from the script to break each other up), "Lum & Abner," "Jack Benny," "Bob and Ray," "Academy Award Theatre," and "Lux Radio Theatre."
I was a little disappointed to check out Academy Award's version of Pinocchio, only to find a different voice for Jiminy Cricket. Change the rest of the cast if you like, but he's the soul of the show. Then I poked through the years of Lux, and found that their version of Pinocchio has Cliff Edwards himself. Good show! I'll be listening to it in the car later. I also downloaded The Wizard of Oz (from 1950), and before I step out, I might as well start it going on Snow White too.
The Archive is very misleading in one way. It says it has 361 entries in Old-Time Radio. What this works out to is that an entry might have one show on it, or it might have a whole season of shows on it. Their way of indexing them seems almost random, so it's best to just go look through all 8 pages of entries. Tabbed browsing helps me, otherwise I get lost in a maze of nesting parentheses.
Lux Radio Theatre is a good place to start. Lots of good movies with original cast members recreating their roles.
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I just happened to wander by the Internet Archive, looking for something else, and thought to look into their holdings of old radio shows. I'm pleased to report they have a load of them, including "Gunsmoke" (and two of those are rehearsals, in which the very able cast members wander from the script to break each other up), "Lum & Abner," "Jack Benny," "Bob and Ray," "Academy Award Theatre," and "Lux Radio Theatre."
I was a little disappointed to check out Academy Award's version of Pinocchio, only to find a different voice for Jiminy Cricket. Change the rest of the cast if you like, but he's the soul of the show. Then I poked through the years of Lux, and found that their version of Pinocchio has Cliff Edwards himself. Good show! I'll be listening to it in the car later. I also downloaded The Wizard of Oz (from 1950), and before I step out, I might as well start it going on Snow White too.
The Archive is very misleading in one way. It says it has 361 entries in Old-Time Radio. What this works out to is that an entry might have one show on it, or it might have a whole season of shows on it. Their way of indexing them seems almost random, so it's best to just go look through all 8 pages of entries. Tabbed browsing helps me, otherwise I get lost in a maze of nesting parentheses.
Lux Radio Theatre is a good place to start. Lots of good movies with original cast members recreating their roles.
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