Date | Title | Writer | Adaptation | Director/Producer | Music | Remarks |
July 18, 1936 |
A Comedy of Danger |
Richard Hughes |
- |
Myron Sattler |
- |
First show |
The Finger of God | Percival Wilde |
July 25, 1936 | Broadway Evening | Leopold Proser | - | Irving Reis | - | - |
August 1, 1936 | Technical Demonstration | - | - | Irving Reis | - | - |
Cartwheel |
Vic Knight |
August 8, 1936 | Experiment | Mary Parkington | - | Irving Reis | - | - |
Highway Incident | Brian J. Byrne |
August 15, 1936 | Case History | Milton M. E. Geiger | - | Irving Reis | - | Fantasy of pilot in airline crash |
August 22, 1936 | The March of the Molecules | Orestes H. Caldwell (FRC commissioner) | - | Irving Reis | - | Demonstration of how radio works |
There Must Be Something Else | Helen Bergovoy |
September 5, 1936 | San Quentin Prison Break | William N. Robson | - | William N. Robson | - | Rebroadcast of a play originally broadcast January 16, 1935 |
September 12, 1936 | Voyage to Brobdingnag | Jonathan Swift | Leopold Proser | Irving Reis | - | - |
September 19, 1936 | Hamlet, Acts 1-2 | William Shakespeare | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | - | - |
September 26, 1936 | The Dream Maker | Charles Burton | - | Irving Reis | - | Fantasy of how dreams are made |
Shadows That Walk In | - | Ghost analysis |
October 3, 1936 | St. Louis Blues | | | | | |
October 10, 1936 | Sound Demonstration | | | | | |
October 17, 1936 | Dauber | John Masefield | Burke Boyce | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | |
October 24, 1936 | Letting the Cat Out of the Bag | - | - | - | - | Interview on vocal sound effects with Brad Barker and Madeleine Pearce |
November 7, 1936 | Music for Radio | Narration by Deems Taylor | - | Davidson Taylor | Debussy: Golliwogg's Cakewalk, Schumann: Traumerei, Bizet: Farandole (from L'Arlesienne Suite) orchestrated by Amadeo di Fillipi | To illustrate idiomatic use of radio orchestration for the Columbia Composers' Commission |
November 14, 1936 | Hamlet, acts 3-5 | William Shakespeare | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | - | |
November 21, 1936 | The Use of Theaters for Broadcasts | E. E. Free | - | Irving Reis | - | Electrical demonstration |
2000 Were Chosen | E.P. Conkle | - |
November 28, 1936 | The American Patent System | Irving Reis | - | Irving Reis | - | Honoring 100th Anniversary of the U.S. Patent Office |
December 12, 1936 | Rhythm of the Jute Mill | William N. Robson | - | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | - |
December 19, 1936 | The Gods of the Mountains | Lord Dunsany | - | - | Bernard Herrmann | - |
December 26, 1936 | The Happy Prince | Oscar Wilde | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
January 2, 1937 | Public Domain | Eustis Wyatt | - | Earle McGill | - | Fantasy of PD characters yearning for release from stories |
January 9, 1937 | Interview with a Control Engineer, part 1 | van Voorhees, control engineer | - | - | Clyde Borne, singer | Control sound engineering |
A Voyage to Lilliput | Jonathan Swift | (Irving Reis?) | Irving Reis | - |
January 16, 1937 | Interview with a Control Engineer, part 2 | - | - | - | - | microphone mixing |
An Incident of the Cosmos | Paul Y. Anderson | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | Extraterrestrials witness the end of Earth |
January 23, 1937 | The Signal-Man | Charles Dickens | - | Irving Reis and Earle McGill | - | - |
January 30, 1937 | Evolution of the Negro Spiritual | - | - | Irving Reis | arrangements by Clyde Barry & Helen Bergeron | - |
February 6, 1937 | Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Leopold Proser | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
February 13, 1937 | Sound and the Human Ear | Narrated by Dr. John Steinberg | - | Irving Reis(and pro.) | - | demonstration of pitch perception |
February 28, 1937 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | Bernard Herrmann | - |
March 7, 1937 | | - | - | - | - | (unidentified show) |
March 14, 1937 | Split Seconds | Irving Reis | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | Script first broadcast in 1931 |
March 21, 1937 | Danse Macabre | Helen Bergeron, George Zachary | - | Irving Reis | Camille Saint-Saëns | - |
March 28, 1937 | Eve of St. Agnes | John Keats | Edward A. Byron | Edward A. Byron | - | - |
April 4, 1937 | Big Ben | John Mossman | - | John Mossman | - | - |
April 4, 1937 | Crisis | Roy Winsower | - | Roy Winsower | - | - |
April 11, 1937 | The Fall of the City | Archibald MacLeish | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
April 18, 1937 | R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) | Karel Čapek | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
April 25, 1937 | St. Louis Blues | Irving Reis | - | Irving Reis | Blues by W.C. Handy | Orig. written in 1932; first play for radio about radio; First heard on the Workshop Oct. 3, 1936 |
May 2, 1937 | Drums of Conscience | - | - | Irving Reis | - | - |
May 9, 1937 | Supply and Demand | Irwin Shaw | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | Worthington Minor, "director of dialogue and staging" |
May 16, 1937 | Paul Revere | Stephen Vincent Benét | - | | Bernard Herrmann | - |
May 23, 1937 | A Night at an Inn | Lord Dunsany | - | Irving Reis | Debussy, conducted by Bernard Herrmann | - |
May 30, 1937 | Discoverie | Merrill Denison | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
June 6, 1937 | Downbeat on Murder | Charles Tazewell | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | voices change into musical notes |
June 13, 1937 | The Young King | Oscar Wilde | - | Irving Reis | - | - |
June 20, 1937 | Red-Head Baker | Albert Maltz | - | Joseph Losey | Bernard Herrman | - |
June 27, 1937 | Babouk | Guy Endore | Lester Fuller | Edward A. Blatt, Irving Reis | Bernard Herrman | - |
July 4, 1937 | Mr. Sycamore | Robert Ayre | Leonard Proser | - | Bernard Herrmann | - |
July 11, 1937 | The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe | Charles Tazewell | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | Used sounds of real heartbeats |
July 18, 1937 | Fifty Grand | Ernest Hemingway | - | | Bernard Herrmann | - |
July 25, 1937 | A Matter of Life and Death | Leopold Atlas | - | Irving Reis | - | - |
August 1, 1937 | Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent | Stephen Vincent Benét | Sheldon Stark | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
August 8, 1937 | An Incident of the Cosmos(rep) | Paul Y. Anderson | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
Last Citation | John Whedon |
August 15, 1937 | Escape (part 1) | John Galsworthy | Leopold Proser | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
August 22, 1937 | Escape (part 2) | John Galsworthy | Leopold Proser | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
August 29, 1937 | The Half-Pint Flask | Dubose Heyward | Irving Reis | William N. Robson | (Victor Young?) | - |
August 30, 1937 | Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | Orson Welles | Orson Welles, director, John Houseman, producer | - | Includes readings by Pepys, Manningham, Mazlitt, and Brandes |
September 5, 1937 | S.S. San Pedro | James G. Cozzens | Betsy Tuttle | William N. Robson | Charles Paul | James Gould Cozzens |
September 12, 1937 | Death of a Queen | Hilaire Belloc | Val Gielgud | Val Gielgud | - | Originated from BBC in London |
September 19, 1937 | Riders to the Sea | John Millington Synge | - | Irving Reis | - | Originated from Dublin, Ireland |
September 26, 1937 | Alice in Wonderland, part 1 | Lewis Carroll | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | Paul Sterrett | - |
October 3, 1937 | Alice in Wonderland, part 2 | Lewis Carroll | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | Paul Sterrett and Leith Stevens | - |
October 10, 1937 | Meridian 7-1212 | Irving Reis | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
October 17, 1937 | The Killers | Ernest Hemingway | Irving Reis | Irving Reis | - | - |
October 17, 1937 | Illusion | Georgia Backus | - | Georgia Backus | - | - |
October 24, 1937 | I've Got the Tune | Marc Blitzstein | - | | Marc Blitzstein | - |
October 31, 1937 | Sweepstakes | Irving Reis & Charles Martin | - | Irving Reis & Charles Martin | Bernard Herrmann | - |
November 7, 1937 | The Horla | Guy de Maupassant | Charles Tazewell | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
November 14, 1937 | Mr. Justice | Irving Reis | - | | - | - |
November 21, 1937 | Georgia Transport | John Williams Andrews | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | Repeat from Sept. 27, 1937 |
November 28, 1937 | First Violin | Norman Davey | Sally Russell | Irving Reis | - | - |
December 2, 1937 | - | - | - | - | - | (unidentified show) |
December 9, 1937 | Marconi | - | Orrin Dunlap | - | Bernard Herrmann | - |
December 16, 1937 | Metzengerstein | Edgar Allan Poe | Charles Tazewell | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - |
December 23, 1937 | Alice Through the Looking-Glass, part 1 | Lewis Carroll | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | Paul Sterrett and Leith Stevens | Robson succeeds Reis as head of Columbia Workshop |
December 30, 1937 | Alice Through the Looking-Glass, part 2 | Lewis Carroll | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | Paul Sterrett and Leith Stevens | - |
January 8, 1938 | The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet, part 1 | | | | | |
January 15, 1938 | The House That Jack Didn't Build | Alfred Kreymborg | | William N. Robson | | Experiment in drama |
January 16, 1938 | Mr. Whipple is Worried | | | | Bernard Herrmann | |
January 22, 1938 | Robert Owens | | | | Bernard Herrmann | |
January 29, 1938 | Madame Curie | Eve Curie | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | |
February 5, 1938 | Andrea del Sarto | Anita Fairgrieve | | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | Author was NYU student |
February 12, 1938 | Be Prepared | Guy Della Cioppa & Richard Linkroum | | George Zachary | Bernard Herrmann | Boy scouts & demo of audio montage |
February 19, 1938 | The Well of the Saints | John Millington Synge | George Zachary | George Zachary | Bernard Herrmann | Use of sound in delineating elements of supernatural fantasy |
February 26, 1938 | Night Patrol | Stuart Hawkins | | | | |
March 5, 1938 | The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet, part 2 | Pauline Gibson & Frederick Gilsdorff | | Nila Mack | Bernard Herrmann | Use of microphone filters |
March 12, 1938 | Hassan | James Elroy Flecker | Constance Brown | Earle McGill | Frederick Delius (Bermard Herrmann, conductor) | opera |
March 19, 1938 | The Wedding of the Meteors | Leslie Roberts & Joel Hamill | | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | |
March 26, 1938 | J. Smith and Wife | Charles Tazewell | | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | No sound effects used |
April 2, 1938 | Seven Waves Away | Richard Sale | Margaret Lewerth | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | |
April 9, 1938 | The Broken Feather | Michael Carroll | | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | |
April 16, 1938 | The Terrible Meek | Charles Rann Kennedy | | William N. Robson | | |
April 23, 1938 | Never Come Monday | Eric Knight | Stephen Fox | William N. Robson | Charles Paul | Repeated June 25, 1938 |
April 30, 1938 | Fours into Seven Won't Go | Val Gielgud, Stephen King-Hall | | Val Gielgud | | |
May 7, 1938 | The Fisherman and His Soul | Oscar Wilde | [William N. Robson?] | William N. Robson | | |
May 14, 1938 | Melodrams | various [poems read by David Ross] | | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | music composed 1934-35 |
May 21, 1938 | Ecce Homo | Pare Lorenz | | Pare Lorenz | Bernard Herrmann | |
May 28, 1938 | Bury the Dead | Irwin Shaw | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | | |
June 4, 1938 | Tranga Man, Fine Gah | John S. Carlisle | | John S. Carlisle & William N. Robson | | |
June 11, 1938 | Surrealism | Ernest Walsh & George Whitsett | | Davidson Taylor | Bernard Herrmann | Also music by Erik Satie & Virgil Thomson |
June 18, 1938 | Reunion | John Hines Jr. & Guy Della Cioppa | | William N. Robson | Columbia Univ. Singers conducted by Lyn Murray | |
June 25, 1938 | Never Come Monday | Eric Knight | Stephen Fox | William N. Robson | Charles Paul & Bernard Herrmann | Repeat from April 23, 1938 |
July 2, 1938 | The Constitution of the US | | | William N. Robson | | |
July 9, 1938 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | Margaret Lewerth | Norman Corwin | Charles Paul | Corwin's debut on CBS |
July 16, 1938 | The National Headliners | | | William N. Robson | | |
July 23, 1938 | Murder in the Cathedral | T. S. Eliot | George Zachary | George Zachary | Bernard Herrmann | |
July 30, 1938 | Tristam | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Stella Reynolds | William N. Robson | Wagner (Cond. BH) | |
August 6, 1938 | The Devil and Daniel Webster | Stephen Vincent Benét | Charles R. Jackson | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | |
August 13, 1938 | | | | | | |
August 20, 1938 | | | | | | (unidentified show) |
August 27, 1938 | Pelleas et Melisande | | | | | |
September 1, 1938 | | | | | | (unidentified show) |
September 8, 1938 | | | | | | (unidentified show) |
September 15, 1938 | Outward Bound | Sutton Vane | Charles R. Jackson | Martin Gosch | Bernard Herrmann | |
September 22, 1938 | He Doubles in Pipes | Hilda Cole | | William N. Robson | | |
September 29, 1938 | The Lighthouse Keepers | Paul Cloquemin | | Norman Corwin | | |
October 13, 1938 | Brushwood Boy | Rudyard Kipling | Eustace Wyatt | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | |
October 20, 1938 | The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden | Thorton Wilder | | | | |
October 26, 1938 | Air Raid (Rehearsal) | Archibald MacLeish | | William N. Robson | | |
October 27, 1938 | Air Raid | Archibald MacLeish | | William N. Robson | | |
November 3, 1938 | Poetic License | Norman Corwin | | Norman Corwin | | |
November 10, 1938 | A Drink of Water | Wilbur Daniel Steele | Max Wylie | Martin Gosch | Bernard Herrmann | |
November 17, 1938 | Luck | Wilbur Daniel Steele | Margaret Lewerth | Martin Gosch; Betsy Tuttle, producer. | Bernard Herrmann | |
November 24, 1938 | Beauty and the Beast | | Robert A. Simon (libretto) | | Vittorio Giannini (Howard Barlow, conductor) | opera |
December 1, 1938 | The Giant's Stair | Wilbur Daniel Steele | Charles R. Jackson | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | |
December 8, 1938 | Man With a Gun/ Experiments in Music/ Fall of Jericho | Sound engineer: Al Span | | Charles Vanda | Simeone, music director | 3 pop songs in 2nd half of show |
December 15, 1938 | A Trip to Czardis | Edwin Granberry | James & Elizabeth Hart | | Bernard Herrmann | |
December 22, 1938 | Bread on the Waters | Arch Oboler | | Earle McGill | Alexander Courage | Sound: D. Gaines |
December 29, 1938 | Crosstown Manhattan | Travis Ingham, Norman Corwin | | William N. Robson | Alfred Newman, Mark Warnow | |
January 5, 1939 | Orphan Ego | Arnold Manoff | Leslie Ubrach | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | |
January 9, 1939 | Forgot in the Rains | William Merrick | | Brewster Morgan | Bernard Herrmann | |
January 16, 1939 | Mr. Whipple is Worried | James Frederick | | Brewster Morgan | Bernard Herrmann | |
January 23, 1939 | Prophecy | | | | Bernard Herrmann | |
January 30, 1939 | Now Playing Tomorrow | Arthur Laurents | | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | |
February 6, 1939 | Do Not Open For 5000 Years | William N. Robson | | William N. Robson | | |
February 20, 1939 | Nine Prisoners | William March | Brian J. Byrne | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | |
February 27, 1939 | Jury Trial | Elizabeth & James Hart | | William N. Robson | | |
March 6, 1939 | The Winged Victory | David Redstone | | Brewster Morgan | | |
March 13, 1939 | In the Train | Frank O’Connor | Hugh Hunt | Brewster Morgan | Bernard Herrmann | |
March 20, 1939 | A Letter from Home | Charles R. Jackson | | Nila Mack | Bernard Herrmann | |
March 27, 1939 | Pepito Inherits the Earth | | | | | |
April 3, 1939 | Rendezvous with Kit Carson | | | | | correct date? |
April 10, 1939 | They Fly Through The Air With The Greatest of Ease | Norman Corwin | | Norman Corwin | | |
April 17, 1939 | Ear Essay On Broadcasting | | | | | |
April 24, 1939 | Seems Like Radio Is Here to Stay | Norman Corwin | | Norman Corwin | Bernard Herrmann | |
May 1, 1939 | Wet Saturday | Lee Anderson play based on short story by John Collier | Margaret Lewerth | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | |
May 8, 1939 | Wild Man | | | | | |
May 15, 1939 | Law Beaters | | | | | |
May 22, 1939 | | | | | | |
May 29, 1939 | Private Throgg | | | | | |
June 5, 1939 | Highboy | | | | | |
June 12, 1939 | Handful of Dust | | | | | |
June 19, 1939 | Journalism in Tennessee | Mark Twain | Norman Corwin | | | |
June 19, 1939 | Salesmanship | Mary Ellen Chase | Norman Corwin | | | |
July 6, 1939 | The Half-Pint Flask | Dubose Heyward | Irving Reis | William N. Robson | [Victor Young?] | |
July 13, 1939 | Never Come Home | | | | | |
July 20, 1939 | John Brown's Body | Stephen Vincent Benét | Norman Corwin | Norman Corwin | Leith Stevens | One hour broadcast |
July 27, 1939 | A Trip to Czardis | | | | | |
August 3, 1939 | The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet | | | | | |
August 10, 1939 | Radio Play | William Saroyan | | | | |
August 17, 1939 | A Drink of Water | | | | | |
August 24, 1939 | Meridian 7-1212 | Irving Reis | | Irving Reis | | |
August 31, 1939 | Apartment to Let | Dorothy Parker Alan Campbell | | Brewster Morgan | George Lehman (composer) Bernard Herrmann (conductor) | |
September 7, 1939 | So This is Radio | | | | | |
September 14, 1939 | The Use of Man | | | | Bernard Herrmann | |
September 21, 1939 | Now It's Summer | Arthur Kober | | Earle McGill | | |
September 28, 1939 | The Fall of the City | Archibald MacLeish | | Irving Reis | [no music] | remake broadcast from California featuring Orson Welles[9] and 500 University of Southern California students |
October 12, 1939 | Wake Up and Die | Frank Lovejoy | | | | Story of alarm clocks |
October 19, 1939 | William Ireland's Confession | Arthur Miller | | | | |
November 2, 1939 | Blennerhasset [Conductor: Howard Barlow] | Norman Corwin | | Music direction Howard Barlow;
production: George Zachary |
opera music by Vittorio Giannini, libretto by Philip Roll | The opera deals with the fortunes of two Americans who become involved in the revolt of Aaron Burr, a famous Revolutionary conspirator, whose plot was mapped at the home Harman Blennerhassett on the Ohio River island named after him. |
November 16, 1939 | A Letter From Above | Florence & Ben Vine | | | | |
November 23, 1939 | A Circular Tour | W. W. Jacobs | | | | |
November 27, 1939 | The Half-Pint Flask | Dubose Heyward | | | Leith Stevens | Repeat from August 29, 1937 |
November 30, 1939 | The Wonderful Day | Frank Gould | | Earle McGill | Alexander Semmler | |
December 7, 1939 | As You Like It | | | | | |
December 14, 1939 | Story in the Dogtown Common | Joseph Liss | | | Alexander Semmler | |
December 21, 1939 | Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk | | | | | |
December 28, 1939 | Higher Than A Kite | Brewster Morgan | | [Brewster Morgan?] | | |
January 11, 1940 | My Heart Is In The Highlands | | | | | |
January 18, 1940 | Fannie Kemble | Joseph Liss and Louis Lantz | | | | |
January 25, 1940 | Heavently Rest | Milton Wayne | | Earle McGill | | |
February 1, 1940 | Coals to Newscastle | from J. P. Marquand's “Timothy Dexter” | Charles Monroe | Brewster Morgan | | |
February 15, 1940 | Double Exposure | Maurice Level, Étienne Rey | | | Alexander Semmler | Adaptation of Grand Guignol play |
February 22, 1940 | An Autobiography of an Egotist | | | | | |
February 29, 1940 | The Great Microphone Mystery; Ellery Queen Mystery: The Case of the Mysterious Leap Year | | | | | |
February 29, 1940 | Leaping Out of Character | | | | | From CBS Program book: “Announcers are to be singers; singers and directors turn actors; actors take a hand as musiciansî |
March 7, 1940 | My Client Curley | Lucille Fletcher | Norman Corwin | | Raymond Scott | Repeated April 4, 1940 |
March 14, 1940 | Three Original Playlets by KNX staff | | | | | Writing, acting, producinto and music has been placed in the hands of elevator operators, ushers, stenographers, tourist guides, receptionists, mail clerks and other employed in the non-glamorous jobs connected with radio. |
March 21, 1940 | The Taming of the Shrew | Shakespeare | Joseph Gottlieb and Irvin Graham | Phil Cohan | | “specially written modernized-musical”; music & lyrics by Gottlieb & Graham |
April 4, 1940 | Sunset Boulevard | William N. Robson | | William N. Robson | | |
April 18, 1940 | Three Strikes, You're Out | Vernon Delston | | Brewster Morgan | | |
April 25, 1940 | America Was Promises | Archibald MacLeish | | George Zachary | Nicholas Nabokov | |
May 5, 1940 | The Honest Captain | Knowles Entrikin, Howard Breslin | | Earle McGill | Charles Paul (organ) | Workshop switched to Sundays |
May 12, 1940 | A Day in Manhattan | A. M. Sullivan | | Earle McGill | | |
May 19, 1940 | Carlos Chavez conducts a program of Mexican music | | | Carlos Chavez,various | | |
June 2, 1940 | The Dark Valley | W. H. Auden | | Brewster Morgan | Benjamin Britten | |
June 9, 1940 | No Complications | | | | | |
June 16, 1940 | | | | | | pre-empted |
June 23, 1940 | In April Once | | | | | |
June 30, 1940 | The Man With the One Track Mind | | Lucille Fletcher | | | |
July 7, 1940 | The Cock-Eyed Wonder | | | | | About baseball |
July 14, 1940 | The Fish Story | Joseph Gottlieb & Irvin Graham | | Phil Cohan | | musical |
July 21, 1940 | Canvas Kisser | | | | | |
July 28, 1940 | Carmilla | Sheridan Le Fanu | Lucille Fletcher | Earle McGill | | |
August 18, 1940 | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins | E. B. White-Dr. Seuss | Nila Mack & Stuart†Aynes | Nila Mack | Charles Paul | |
August 25, 1940 | I Followed The Seals | | | | | |
September 1, 1940 | Alf, The All-American Fly | Lucille Fletcher | | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | |
September 8, 1940 | The Major Goes Over The Hill | | | | | |
September 15, 1940 | Mr. Charles | | | | | |
September 22, 1940 | Well Look Who's Here | | | | | |
September 29, 1940 | The Pussy Cat And The Expert Plumber Who Was A Man | Arthur Miller | | Brewster Mogran | Charles Paul | |
October 6, 1940 | They Also Serve | | | | | |
October 27, 1940 | Fulton Fish Market | | | | | |
November 3, 1940 | The Constitution | | | | | |
November 10, 1940 | Bela and Dita Bartók | | | | Béla Bartók | |
November 17, 1940 | I Get The Blues From Revues | | | | | |
November 24, 1940 | The Dynasts | Thomas Hardy | W.H. Auden? | | Benjamin Britten | |
December 1, 1940 | And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street | Dr. Seuss | | Nila Mack production | | |
December 8, 1940 | The Trojan Women | Euripides | Edith Hamilton, translator | | Virgil Thomson | |
December 15, 1940 | The Symptoms of being 35 In The Fog | | | | | |
December 22, 1940 | The Plot to Overthrow Christmas | Norman Corwin | | Norman Corwin | | Repeat of Corwin's original Dec. 25, 1938 performance |
December 29, 1940 | Dr. Johnson in Scotland | | | | | |
January 5, 1941 | Love In 32 bars | | | | | |
January 12, 1941 | Cassidy and the Devil | | | | | |
January 26, 1941 | This Is From David | Meridel Le Sueur | Draper Lewis, Jack Fink | Clinton Johnston | Alexander Semmler | |
February 2, 1941 | Help Me Hannah | | | | | |
February 9, 1941 | Dress Rehearsal | | | | | |
February 16, 1941 | A Crop of Beans | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Draper Lewis | Guy della Cioppa | | |
February 23, 1941 | Wings of an Eagle | | | | | |
March 2, 1941 | Roadside | Lynn Riggs | Alan M. Fishburn | Earle McGill | Burl Ives | |
March 9, 1941 | Still Small Voice | | | | | |
March 16, 1941 | Cassidy and the Devil | | | | | |
March 23, 1941 | Out of the Air | | | | | |
March 30, 1941 | The Creation The Congo | Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo" poem;
"The Creation" was a dramatization of a paraphrase of James Weldon Johnson's book of "Negro poems and verse" "God's Trombones" |
| George Zachary | | Had been scheduled for an earlier broadcast, but which were postponed until March 30. |
April 6, 1941 | The Rocking-Horse Winner | DH Lawrence ad. Auden & James Stern | | Guy della Cioppa | Benjamin Britten | |
April 13, 1941 | Glory Machine/The House/Brooklyn Cantata | | | | | |
April 20, 1941 | The Reluctant Dragon | | | Nila Mack | | |
April 27, 1941 | Jason Was A Man | | | | | |
May 4, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Radio Primer | Norman Corwin | | | Lyn Murray | |
May 11, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Log of the R-77 | Norman Corwin | | | Lyn Murray | |
May 18, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: The People, Yes | Norman Corwin | | | Earl Robinson | |
May 25, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Lip Service | Norman Corwin | | | Larry Adler | |
June 1, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Appointment | Norman Corwin | | | Lyn Murray | |
June 8, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: The Odyssey of Runyon Jones | Norman Corwin | | | Alexander Semmler | |
June 15, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: A Soliloquy to Balance the Budget | Norman Corwin | | | | |
June 22, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Daybreak | Norman Corwin | | | Lyn Murray | |
June 29, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Old Salt | Norman Corwin | | | Lyn Murray | |
July 6, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Between Americans | Norman Corwin | | | Alexander Semmler | |
July 13, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Ann Rutledge | Norman Corwin | | Norman Corwin | Alexander Semmler | Ann Was An Ordinary Girl |
July 20, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Double Concerto | Norman Corwin | | | Paul Berlanger | |
August 3, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Descent of the Gods | Norman Corwin | | | | |
August 10, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Samson | Norman Corwin | | | Bernard Herrmann | |
August 17, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Esther | Norman Corwin | | | Lyn Murray | |
August 24, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Job | Norman Corwin | | | Deems Taylor | |
August 31, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Mary and the Fairy | Norman Corwin | | | Lud Gluskin | |
September 7, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Anatomy of Sound | Norman Corwin | | | [no music] | |
September 14, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Fragments from a Lost Cause | Norman Corwin | | | Alexander Semmler | |
September 21, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: The Human Angle | Dore Schary | Norman Corwin | Norman Corwin | | |
September 28, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Good Heavens | Norman Corwin | | | Lyn Murray | |
October 5, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Wolfiana | Thomas Wolfe | Norman Corwin | Norman Corwin | Alexander Semmler | |
October 12, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Murder in Studio One | Norman Corwin | | | Alexander Semmler | |
October 19, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Descent of the Gods | Norman Corwin | | Perry Lafferty | [no original music] | repeat due to Corwin illness |
October 26, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Odyssey of Runyan Jones | Norman Corwin | | | | repeat performance |
November 2, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: A Man with a Platform | Norman Corwin | | | Lyn Murrary | |
November 9, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Psalm for a Dark Year | Norman Corwin | | | Alexander Semmler | |
November 16, 1941 | Gator Boy | | | | | |
November 23, 1941 | The Life of a Careful Man | | | | Virgil Thomson | |
November 30, 1941 | Double Ugly | | | | | |
December 14, 1941 | Citizen For Tomorrow | | | | | 150th anniversary of Bill of Rights |
December 21, 1941 | Miracle In Manhattan | | | | | Duffy's Tavern |
December 28, 1941 | Who Wants To Be Born These Days? | | | | | New Years show – baby organization |
January 4, 1942 | The Fish on the Bathroom Floor | | | | | |
January 11, 1942 | Free Speech | | | | | |
January 18, 1942 | At The Sign Of The Lark | | | | | “rare books” |
January 25, 1942 | The Man Without A Shadow | Werner Mishel | | Charles Vanda | Alexander Semmler | Lurene Tuttle plays all 7 female parts |
February 1, 1942 | Jenny, The Bus Nobody Loved | | | Perry Lafferty | | Bus rebellion |
February 8, 1942 | Portrait of Jennie | Robert Nathan | George D. Griffin | Earle McGill | Lehman Engel | Santos Ortega |
February 15, 1942 | Opus For A Lute And A Liar | | Nila Mack | Nila Mack | | |
February 22, 1942 | Plot for Mr. Greenberg | | | | | |
March 1, 1942 | When the Bough Breaks | | | | | |
March 8, 1942 | The Test | Joseph Ruscoll | | | | |
March 15, 1942 | A Child's History of Hot Music | William H. Brown Jr. | | | William H. Brown Jr. | [10] |
March 22, 1942 | Green Receipt | | | | | |
March 29, 1942 | Solomon and Balkis | | | | Bernard Rogers | opera |
April 5, 1942 | Miracle of the Danube | | | | | |
April 12, 1942 | He Should Have Stood In Elba | | | | Nathan Van Cleave | Ted de Corsia |
April 19, 1942 | Play Ball | Louis Hazam | | | | |
May 3, 1942 | Looking For Susie | | | | | |
May 10, 1942 | Flight To Arras | | | | | |
May 17, 1942 | Good Morning Mr. Crumb | | | | | |
May 24, 1942 | Midnight Blue | James Caleb Beach | | Perry Lafferty | Nathan Van Cleave | About blues |
May 31, 1942 | The City Wears a Slouch Hat | Kenneth Patchen | | Les Mitchel | John Cage | |
June 7, 1942 | The Little One | | | | | |
June 12, 1942 | Ritchie The Great | Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee | | John Dietz | | James Monks, Joan Allison |
June 19, 1942 | It Couldn't Happen To A Nicer Kid | | | | | |
June 26, 1942 | History Is On The March/1812 | | | | | |
July 3, 1942 | Tag number 1-184-463 | | | | | Skip Homier |
July 6, 1942 | Broadcast from the Year 1812 | | | | | |
July 13, 1942 | Let Me Tell You About My Operation | | | | | |
July 20, 1942 | Someone Else | Lucille Fletcher | | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | Arr. of music by André Campra |
July 27, 1942 | Reveille Pass | | | | | |
August 3, 1942 | Laughter For The Leader | | | | | |
August 10, 1942 | Music Of The Mountains | | | | | |
August 17, 1942 | All Out For Comedy | | | | | |
August 24, 1942 | Hold ‘Em Yale | | | | | |
August 31, 1942 | All Out For Comedy – Columbia Sketchbook | | | | | |
September 7, 1942 | Café Society – Stars | | | | | |
September 14, 1942 | Portrait of Jennie | Robert Nathan | | | | |
September 21, 1942 | My Kid Brother | | | | | |
September 28, 1942 | Florrie And The Country Green | Abraham Polonsky | | Marx Loeb | Ben Ludlow | |
October 12, 1942 | Rebirth of Barrow’s Inlet | | | | | |
October 19, 1942 | Remodeled Brownstone | Lucille Fletcher | | John Dietz | | Martin Gabel |
November 8, 1942 | Proclaim the Morning | | | | | |
July 25, 1944 | El Capitan and the Corporal | | | | | |
March 23, 1946 | Act of Faith | Irwin Shaw | Charles S. Monroe | John Dietz | Alexander Semmler | |
April 13, 1946 | Joe Peabody's Dream | | | Betty Todd | Charles Paul | |
April 21, 1946 | The Playroom | Howard Rodman | | John Dietz | Norman Lockwood, conducted by Fred Steiner | |
April 28, 1946 |
A Study in Bells |
Bogart Carlaw |
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Albert Ward |
Norman Lockwood, conducted by Fred Steiner |
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The House | André Maurois |
May 19, 1946 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | Davidson Taylor | Guy della Cioppa | Bernard Herrmann | |
August 25, 1946 |
The Path and the Door |
Les Crutchfield (first radio script) |
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William N. Robson |
George Antheil (first radio score) conducted by Cy Feuer |
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September 15, 1946 | The Last Delegate | Margaret Lewerth | | John Dietz | Robert Stringer | |
September 21, 1946 | The Midnight Town Is Full of Boys | Fletcher Markle | | Albert Ward | Fred Steiner | |
October 5, 1946 | Studies in Jealousy | | | Irving Hopkins | Alexander Semmler | |
October 12, 1946 | Brewsie and Willie | Gertrude Stein | | Richard Sanville | Robert Stringer | |
November 2, 1946 | Lee Fountain Comes of Age | Joseph Ruscoll | | Werner Mishel | Alexander Semmler | |
November 23, 1946 | The Tin Whistle | Richard Burdick | | Carl Beyer | Everett Helm | |
November 30, 1946 | It Shouldn't Happen to a Man | Madelyn Pugh | | William N. Robson | Maurice Carlton, conducted by Wilbur Hatch | |
December 7, 1946 | The Parade | Morris Markey | Margaret Lewerth | Richard Sanville | Robert Stringer | |
December 14, 1946 | Alice and the Echo | Jean L. Meyer | | John Becker | Alexander Semmler | |
January 11, 1947 | The Surreal Marriage | Elwood Hoffman | | Werner Mishel | Alexander Semmler | |
January 25, 1947 | The Natural History of Nonsense | Bergen Evans | Joseph Ruscoll | Albert Ward | Ben Ludlow | |