WBW Theater

The National Broadcasting Company brings you transcribed from New York The Martin and Lewis Show with special guest Bob Hope, featuring Flo McMichael, Mike Roy, The Martingales, Dick Stabile and his orchestra and Starring Dean Martin with his wonderful singing voice and Jerry Lewis with his not so wonderful singing voice! Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are two young men who have overnight become the nations comedy hit and they are still rather dazed by it all. Now we take you back a few hours to this afternoon. We find the boys in their apartment getting ready somewhat nervously to go to NBC for their first radio show… Cast: Bob Hope, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Broadcast: December 21, 1948

It’s 8.15 am and Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Richard Kollmar bring you breakfast as usual from their New York apartment on 66th Street. Today they are very happy to have at their breakfast table two friends who are also neighbors, Leo Durocher and his wife Mrs Durocher otherwise known as Lorraine Day. Cast: Richard Kollmar, Dorothy Kilgallen Broadcast: May 9, 1947

It’s 8.15 am and Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Richard Kollmar bring you breakfast as usual from their New York apartment on 66th Street. Today they are very happy to have at their breakfast table Florence Pritchett. Cast: Dorothy Kilgallen, Richard Kollmar, Florence Pritchett Broadcast: April 26, 1947

"Reaping down upon the underworld to smash ganglands comes a friend of the unfortunate an enemy of criminals, the mysterious all powerful character who is a problem to the police. A crusader for law, in reality Dan Garrett a rookie patrolman loved by everyone but suspected by none of being the Blue Beetle. As the Blue beetle he hides behind a strange mask and a suit of impenetrable blue chain armor flexible as silk but stronger than steel." This episode sends the Blue beetle swooping down on a group of powerful underworld characheters whose racket is dope. Will he be able to ferret them out? Can he hope to be able to cope with this mysterious ring of ruthless men single handed? Can he discover their leader and bring him to justice? Listen now to both parts of this 2 part story. Cast: Frank Lovejoy Broadcast: May 15, 1940

“Hey kids its time for the party with Big Jon and Sparkie”. They were escaping from the dread Mon Gumsy pygmy tribe in Africa in Captain Squinty’s airplane. Captain Squinty Coco Joecal and the rest of the native boys had gone back to camp in their jeep and they were going to fly away from danger but as they got out in to the lake they discovered they were out of gas. Cast: Jon Arthur Broadcast: Not Known

When the first space rocket lands on Mars, what will we find? Will we be welcomed with open arms or will the Martians treat us as invaders? Only one thing is certain someday a giant metal ship will take off from earth and travel through the black velocities of the silent states to descend at last in the upper Martian atmospheres. That day man will finally know the answers. The day we first land on Mars. Cast: Wendell Holmes Broadcast: 7th January 1951

A program based upon George Creel's book War Criminals and Punishment. It poses the question, "What are we going to do with Hitler when we have ended the war that he started?" The show is brought to you in the form of an open letter to Hitler, written by a man who has read Creel's book and wants to the American public to know what kind of job is ahead if justice is to be done. Cast: Ned Wever Broadcast: July 4, 1944

The famous criminologist Roy Post devised this series. Here is your chance to actually take part in the jury trial without leaving your own living room, the chance to find out what kind of juror you’d make. Be warned, it states that the verdict will not be heard while the next episode but in fact it is not heard at all on the recordings and was probably announced live on the radio. Broadcast: Unknown

For over twenty years, in over 180 different countries, Robert Ripley has collected facts in their strangest, most remarkable form. So let's see what he has in store for you tonight, when he can show you how amazing he truth can be. But first, the show opens with a medley of tunes, from Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra. The first tune is called 'Puttin' On My White Tie'. Cast: Robert Ripley, Harriet Hilliard, Gino Palmisano Broadcast: November 3, 1935

Today's show is all about aviation oddities, thrills from high in the air, and some of the strangest and more daring aeronautical feats ever recorded.  Cast: Robert Ripley Broadcast: December 1, 1935