Post or Modify Date: November 13, 16
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Series: "BIOGRAPHY IN SOUND"
NBC SUSTAINED
Excellent series spotlighting many various public figures.
Heard on various days and times throughout it's run.
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70248 "SIGMUND ROMBURG TRIBUTE" 1 10-24-54 :60:00*
70249 "HIS FINEST HOUR: WINSTIN 2 11-28-54 :60:00* Herbert Marshall, Laurence Olivier,
CHURCHILL" Ralph Richardson, Lynn Fontanne,
Franklin Roosevelt, Paul Reynaud,
Anthony Eden, Bennett Cerf, Alistair
Cooke
70250 "MEET ERNEST HEMINGWAY" 3 12-19-54 :60:00* Herbert Marshall, Laurence Olivier,
Mickey Spillane, Charles Cooper,
Marlon Brando, Al Capp
70251 "SHOW BIZZ" 4 01-16-55 :60:00* George Jessel
70252 "MEET GERTRUDE LAWRENCE" 5 01-23-55 :60:00* Helen Hayes, Cedric Hardwicke,
Beatrice Lillie
70253 "MEET CARL SANDBURG" 6 02-20-55 :60:00* William Saroyan, R.E. Sherwood, Adalie
Stevenson, Ben Hecht
*na* "EDDIE ARNOLD" 7 02-27-55 :60:00* Perry Como, Eddie Fisher, Dinah Shore
70255 "THE ACTOR" 8 03-06-55 :60:00* Laurence Olivier, Vivian Leigh,
Talulah Bankhead, The Barrymores, Hy
Gardner, Rocky Graziano, Arthur
Miller, Uta Hagen, Jackie Cooper,
Barbara Ashley, Gant Gaither, Robert
Clary, Hortense Powderbaker, Peter
Ustinov, Alfred Hitchcock, Leonard
Lyons, Ralph Bellamy, Richardson, Jose
Ferrer, Walter Kerr
70256 "THE KENTON ERA - STAN KENTON" 9 03-13-55 :60:00* Frank Sinatra, Leith Stebvens, D.
Gillis
70257 "MEET ETHEL BARRYMORE" 10 03-20-55 :60:00* Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, K.
Cornell, Talulah Bankhead
70258 "THEY KNEW BERNARD SHAW - 11 03-27-55 :60:00* Lord Astor & Lady Astor, N. Thomas,
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW" H. Pearson
70259 "MEET ERNEST HEMINGWAY" 12 04-03-55 :60:00* Herbert Marshall, Laurence Olivier,
Mickey Spillane, Charles Cooper,
Marlon Brando, Al Capp Repeat 0f
12-19-54
70260 "THEY KNEW PRESIDENT FRANKLYN 13 04-10-55 :60:00* Eleanor Roosevelt, Alf Landon, James
ROOSEVELT - FRANKLIN DELANO Farley, Henry Wallace
ROOSEVELT"
70261 "LEO THE LIP - LEO DUROCHER" 14 04-17-55 :60:00* Branch Rickey, Toots Shor, Leo
Durocher, Charlie Dressen, Pee Wee
Reese, Horace Stoneham, Russ Hodges,
Barney Clemento, Jackie Robinson,
Willie Mays, Larry MacPhail, Laraine
Day, Alvin Dark
70262 "THE ACTOR" 15 05-01-55 :60:00* Laurence Olivier, Vivian Leigh,
Talulah Bankhead, The Barrymores, Hy
Gardner, Rocky Graziano, Arthur
Miller, Uta Hagen, Jackie Cooper,
Barbara Ashley, Gant Gaither, Robert
Clary, Hortense Powderbaker, Peter
Ustinov, Alfred Hitchcock, Leonard
Lyons, Ralph Bellamy, Richardson, Jose
Ferrer, Walter Kerr. Repeat of 3-6-55
Program of 4-24 Pre-empted for a
documentary "They Lived With The Atom
Bomb"
*na* "HELEN HAYES" 16 05-08-55 :60:00* C. MacArther, Ben Hecht, J.M. Brown,
B. Leslie
70264 "THEY KNEW BERNARD SHAW - 17 05-15-55 :60:00* Lord Astor & Lady Astor, N. Thomas, H.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW" Pearson Repeat of 3-27-55
*na* "WILL ROGERS" 18 05-22-55 :60:00* Fred Allen, Carl Sandburg, Sam
Rayburn, Billie Burke
70266 "MEET CARL SANDBURG" 19 05-29-55 :60:00* William Saroyan, R.E. Sherwood, Adalie
Stevenson, Ben Hecht Repeat of
2-20-55
70267 "THE KENTON ERA - STAN KENTON" 20 06-05-55 :60:00* Frank Sinatra, Leith Stebvens, D.
Gillis Repeat of 3-13-55
70268 "MEET GERTRUDE LAWRENCE" 21 06-14-55 :60:00* Helen Hayes, Cedric Hardwicke,
Beatrice Lillie Show moves to
Tuesdays Repeat of 1-23-55
70269 "THAT WAS F. SCOTT FITZGERALD" 22 06-28-55 :60:00* J. Held jr., B. Schulberg, Bennett
Cerf, A. Mizener Program of 6-14
Pre-empted for documentary "10
Troubled Years - The U.N."
70270 "GEORGE WASHINGTON - THE MAN 23 07-05-55 :60:00* Includes news at the end
NOBODY KNOWS"
70271 "LABOR'S JOHN L. LEWIS" 24 07-12-55 :60:00*
70272 "BIOGRAPHY IN RHYTHM" 25 07-26-55 :60:00* Includes partial newscast at end.
Program of 1-19 Pre-empted for special
"Geneva 1955 - Pendulum of Peace"
70273 "THE ATOM: MENACE AND PROMISE" 26 08-09-55 :56:57 Program of 8-2 Pre-empted for special
movie premiere of "Pete Kelly's Blues"
70274 "THE BABE RUTH STORY" 27 08-16-55 :60:00* NARRATOR: Mel Allen James Farley,
Wait Hoyt Hoyt, Branch Rickey
70275 "THE SERIOUS GERSHWIN - GEORGE 28 08-30-55 :60:00* A. Schwartz, I. Caesar, Morton Gould
GERSHWIN" and his Orchestra Program of 8-23
Pre-empted for "Night of the Hunter" -
a narrative recitation by Charles
Laughton
70276 "MEET ETHEL BARRYMORE" 29 09-06-55 :60:00* Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, K.
Cornell, Talulah Bankhead Repeat of
3-20-55
70277 "DARROW-100 YEARS LATER 30 09-13-55 :60:00* Paul Muni, Nathan Leopold
CLARENCE DARROW"
70278 "THAT WAS F. SCOTT FITZGERALD" 31 09-20-55 :60:00* J. Held jr., B. Schulberg, Bennett
Cerf, A. Mizener Repeat of 6-28
70279 "F.P.A. HIS COLUMNS AND HIS 32 09-27-55 :60:00* Ethel Barrymore, Harpo Marx, Richard
FRIENDS - FRANKLIN P. ADAMS" Crouse, Deems Taylor
70280 "LEO THE LIP - LEO DUROCHER" 33 10-04-55 :60:00* L. Day, L. McPhail, Branch Rickey,
Willie Mays, Dizzy Dean Repeat of
4-17-55
70281 "THEY KNEW THOMAS WOLFE" 34 11-01-55 :60:00* Mabel Wolfe Weaton, Edward Aswell,
John Hall Wheelock, Kitty Hoagland,
Theodore Earson, Ken Nordine Program
moves to Tuesdays and alternates with
"Your Radio Theater"
70282 "JEROME KERN, THE MAN AND HIS 35 11-29-55 :60:00* Edna Ferber, Oscar Hammerstein
MUSIC"
70283 "ALBERT SCHWEITZER" 36 12-27-55 :60:00* Doctors E. Ross, J. Bixler, K.
Menninger
*na* "BREATH OF LIFE" 37 01-17-56 :60:00* The story of Ruth Begun, a young
mother stricken with polio
70285 "JOHN GOLDEN" 38 01-24-56 :60:00* Helen Hayes, Victor Borge, Eleanor
Roosevelt, G. Abbot
*na* "WILL ROGERS" 39 01-31-56 :60:00* Fred Allen, Carl Sandburg, Sam
Rayburn, Billie Burke Repeat of
5-22-55
*na* "COURAGE TO LIVE" 40 02-07-56 :60:00* The story of Emil Ober, publicity
director of the New York Heart
Association
70288 "THEY KNEW GRANTLAND RICE" 41 02-14-56 :60:00* John Kieran, Gene Tunny, R. Smith,
Hank Greenberg
70289 "GEORGE WASHINGTON - THE MAN 42 02-21-56 :60:00* Repeat of 7-5-55
NOBODY KNOWS"
70290 "MAGNIFICENT ROGUE, THE 43 02-28-56 :54:23 Narrated by: Fred Allen just before
ADVENTURES OF W.C. FIELDS" his death 3-17-56. Edgar Bergan,
Errol Flynn, Ed Wynn, Max Sennett
70291 "THEY KNEW GEORGE M. COHAN" 44 03-20-56 :60:00* Joe Franklin, C. Washburn, O. Skinner
Programs of 3-6, 3-13 Pre-Empted by
special series "Politics and
Primaries"
70292 "THE KEEPER OF THE TIME 45 03-27-56 :60:00* Garson Kanin, Gene Tunney, J. Harris,
CAPSULE; THORNTON WILDER" I. Wilder
70293 "MR. BASEBALL - CONNIE MACK" 46 04-10-56 :60:00* Jimmie Foxx, M. Cochrane, Floyd Frick,
R. Smith Program of 4-3 Pre-Empted
by special series "Politics and
Primaries" part 3
70294 "SINCLAIR LEWIS" 47 04-24-56 :60:00* H. Smith, H. Maule, M. Cane, M. Shorer
Program of 4-3 Pre-Empted by special
series "Politics and Primaries" part 4
70295 "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ROBERT 48 05-08-56 :60:00* Deems Taylor, Irving Berlin, M.
BENCHLEY" Connelly, Jimmie Durante Program of
5-1 Pre-Empted by special series
"Politics and Primaries" part 5
70296 "SALUTE TO RADIO" 49 05-15-56 :60:00* Fred Allen, H.V. Kaltonborn
70297 "A PORTRAIT OF FRED ALLEN" 50 05-29-56 :60:00* Jack Haley, Hermon Wouk, Kenny Delmar,
Tallulah Bankhead, Clifton Webb,
George Jessel, John Ryal, Roger White,
Pat Weaver, Harry Von Zell, John
Crosby, Stanley Trablinsky (newsboy),
Morton Green, George Foster, Su Chan,
Max Asgur, Alan Reed, Parker
Fennellyo. Program of 5-22 Pre-Empted
by special series "Politics and
Primaries" part 6
70298 "THEY KNEW THOMAS WOLFE" 51 06-12-56 :60:00* Mabel Wolfe Weaton, Edward Aswell,
John Hall Wheelock, Kitty Hoagland,
Theodore Earson, Ken Nordine. Repeat
of 11-1-55 Program of 6-5 Pre-Empted
by special series "Politics and
Primaries" part 7
*na* "HEYWOOD BROUN" 52 06-19-56 :60:00* Quinton Reynolds, M. Ernst, H.H. Broun
70300 "FIORELLO LAGUARDIA - THE 53 06-26-56 :60:00* G. Whalen, Eleanor Roosevelt, William
LITTLE GIANT OF GOTHAM" O'Dwyer
70301 "THEY KNEW GEORGE M. COHAN" 54 07-03-56 :60:00* J. Franklin, C. Washburn, O. Skinner
Repeat of 3-20-56
70302 "H.L. MENCKEN - THE BITTER 55 07-10-56 :60:00* Chet Huntley, Alister Cooke, A. Knopf
BYLINE"
70303 "THEY KNEW BERNARD SHAW - 56 07-24-56 :60:00* Lord Astor & Lady Astor, N. Thomas,
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW" H. Pearson Program of 7-17
Pre-empted for special documentary
"Conflict In The Middle East"
70304 "MEET FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT" 57 08-07-56 :60:00* W. Zeckendorf, B. Zeyl, D. Orr, M.
Beatty Program of 7-31 Pre-empted
for special program "Fisher Body
Craftsman's Guild Scholarship Awards"
70305 "BIOGRAPHY IN RHYTHM" 58 08-14-56 :60:00* "A History of Jazz"
70306 "F.P.A. HIS COLUMNS AND HIS 59 08-28-56 :60:00* Ethel Barrymore, Harpo Marx, Richard
FRIENDS - FRANKLIN P. ADAMS" Crouse, Deems Taylor Program of 8-21
Pre-empted for Republican National
Convention coverage
70307 "AMERICA'S GRANDMA - GRANDMA 60 09-04-56 :60:00* Richard Nixon, Lillian Gish On the
MOSES" occasion of her 96th birthday
70308 "THEY KNEW ROCKNE - KNUTE 61 09-11-56 :60:00* Don Miller, Elmer Layden, Jim Crowley
ROCKNE"
70309 "DARROW-100 YEARS LATER 62 09-18-56 :60:00* Paul Muni, Nathan Leopold Repeat of
CLARENCE DARROW" 9-13-55
70310 "MAGNIFICENT ROGUE, THE 63 09-25-56 :60:00* Edgar Bergan, Errol Flynn, Ed Wynn,
ADVENTURES OF W.C. FIELDS" Max Sennett Repeat of 2-28-56
70311 "WOODROW WILSON, PORTRAIT OF A 64 10-02-56 :60:00* John Foster Dulles, N. Thomas, C.
PEACEMAKER" Herter, Chet Huntley
70312 "MEET MARY MARTIN" 65 10-16-56 :60:00* Oscar Hammerstein, Josh Logan, F.
Blair Program of 10-9 Pre-empted for
President Eisenhower's speech from
Pittsburgh
70313 "ALEXANDER WOOLCOTT" 66 11-13-56 :60:00* Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, R.
West, Ben Hect Programs of 10-23
Pre-empted for special election
program "X Marks the Choice" and 10-30
for election coverage
70314 "ALBERT SCHWEITZER" 67 11-20-56 :60:00* Doctors E. Ross, J. Bixler, K.
Menninger Repeat of 12-27-55
70315 "JOHN GOLDEN" 68 11-27-56 :60:00* Helen Hayes, Victor Borge, Eleanor
Roosevelt, G. Abbot Repeat of
1-24-56
70316 "TICKET TO THE MOON" 69 12-04-56 :60:00* Science fiction program. Narrator:
Norman Rose, Commentary by Arch
Oboler, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, W.
Ley
70317 "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ROBERT 70 12-11-56 :60:00* Deems Taylor, Irving Berlin, M.
BENCHLEY" Connelly, Jimmie Durante Repeat of
5-8-56
70318 "A PORTRAIT OF FRED ALLEN" 71 12-18-56 :60:00* Jack Haley, H. Wouk, S. Weaver
Repeat of 5-29-56
70319 "AMERICA'S GRANDMA - GRANDMA 72 12-25-56 :60:00* Richard Nixon, Lillian Gish On the
MOSES" occasion of her 96th birthday
Repeat of 9-4-56
70320 "MEET FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT" 73 01-08-57 :60:00* W. Zeckendorf, B. Zeyl, D. Orr, M.
Beatty Repeat of 8-7-56
70321 "FIORELLO LAGUARDIA - THE 74 01-15-57 :60:00* G. Whalen, Eleanor Roosevelt, William
LITTLE GIANT OF GOTHAM" O'Dwyer Repeat of 6-26-56
70322 "THE MAN BEHIND THE LEGEND - 75 01-22-57 :52:47 Narrator: Ben Grauer. Don Gillis,
ARTURO TOSCANINI" Jack Costello, Arturo Toscanini,
Howard Taubman
70323 "THEY KNEW PRESIDENT FRANKLYN 76 01-29-57 :60:00* Eleanor Roosevelt, Alf Landon, James
ROOSEVELT - FRANKLIN DELANO Farley, Henry Wallace Repeat of
ROOSEVELT" 4-10-55
70324 "THE KEEPER OF THE TIME 77 02-05-57 :60:00* Garson Kanin, Gene Tunney, J. Harris,
CAPSULE; THORNTON WILDER" I. Wilder Repeat of 3-27-56
*na* "COURAGE TO LIVE" 78 02-12-57 :60:00* The story of Emil Ober, publicity
director of the New York Heart
Association Repeat of 2-7-56
70326 "THAT WAS F. SCOTT FITZGERALD" 79 02-19-57 :60:00* J. Held jr., B. Schulberg, Bennett
Cerf, A. Mizener Repeat of 6-28-55
*na* "WILL ROGERS" 80 02-26-57 :60:00* Fred Allen, Carl Sandburg, Sam
Rayburn, Billie Burke Repeat of 5-25
70328 "THEY KNEW GEORGE M. COHAN" 81 03-05-57 :60:00* J. Franklin, C. Washburn, O. Skinner
Repeat of 3-20-56
70329 "AMERICA'S GRANDMA - GRANDMA 82 03-12-57 :60:00* Richard Nixon, Lillian Gish On the
MOSES" occasion of her 96th birthday Repeat
of 9-4-56
70330 "MEET ERNEST HEMINGWAY" 83 03-19-57 :60:00* Herbert Marshall, Laurence Olivier,
Mickey Spillane, Charles Cooper,
Marlon Brando, Al Capp Repeat of
12-19-54
70331 "MEET CARL SANDBURG" 84 03-26-57 :60:00* William Saroyan, R.E. Sherwood, Adalie
Stevenson, Ben Hecht Repeat of
2-20-55
70332 "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ROBERT 85 04-02-57 :60:00* Deems Taylor, Irving Berlin, M.
BENCHLEY" Connelly, Jimmie Durante Repeat of
5-8-56
70333 "THEY KNEW GRANTLAND RICE" 86 04-09-57 :60:00* J. Kieran, Gene Tunny, R. Smith, Hank
Greenberg Repeat of 2-14-56
70334 "WOODROW WILSON, PORTRAIT OF A 87 04-16-57 :60:00* John Foster Dulles, N. Thomas, C.
PEACEMAKER" Herter, Chet Huntley Repeat of
10-2-56 This program was Pre-empted
in some areas by Senate Hearing
coverage
70335 "ALEXANDER WOOLCOTT" 88 04-23-57 :60:00* Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, R.
West, Ben Hect Repeat of 11-13-56
Series was replaced at this point by
"Nightline" with Walter O'Keefe till
7-9-57
70336 "THE AURAL PUCTURE OF ALBEN W. 89 07-09-57 :60:00* Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sam
BARKLEY" Rayburn
70337 "DANNY KAYE, PRINCE OF CLOWNS" 90 09-10-57 :60:00* Dinah Shore, Samual Goldwyn, Leo
Durocher, M. Liebman
70338 "THEODORE ROOSEVELT" 91 11-14-57 :60:00* Eleanor Roosevelt, S. Isaacs, L. Hand,
H. Hagedorn Program moves to
Thursdays, still random airings
70339 "ERNIE PYLE; TYPEWRITER IN A 92 01-16-58 :60:00* Omar Bradley, L. Miller, Robert
FOXHOLE" McCormick, D. Whitehead
70340 "CAPTAIN EDDIE, THE IRON EAGLE 93 04-10-58 :60:00* Arthur Godfrey, L. Rockefeller, Adolph
EDDIE RICKENBACKER" Menjou, Alan Sloan
47016 "DARROW-100 YEARS LATER 94 05-22-58 :60:00* M. Levin, N. Thomas This is a
CLARENCE DARROW" revised version from 9-13-55
*na* "GEORGE C. MARSHALL" 95 07-03-58 :60:00* Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Dean Acheson
70343 "THEODORE ROOSEVELT" 96 10-23-58 :60:00* Eleanor Roosevelt, S. Isaacs, L. Hand,
H. Hagedorn
70344 "HERBERT HOOVER" 97 10-20-64 :60:00* Special broadcast aired on the day of
his death
Series: "BIOGRAPHY IN SOUND"
NBC SUSTAINED
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6551 D "FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT" :54:10
6551 B "W. C. FIELDS, THE MAGNIFICANT 03-13-56 :52:50 Narrated by: Fred Allen just before
ROGUE" his death 3-17-56. Edgar Bergan,
Errol Flynn, Ed Wynn, Max Sennett
6550 B "RECOLLECTIONS AT 30" 05-15-56 :60:00* A SALUTE TO NETWORK RADIO ON IT'S 30TH
ANIVERSARY Bob & Ray
6551 A "FRED ALLEN" 05-29-56 :53:00
6550 A "LITTLE GIANT OF GOTHEM" 06-26-56 :60:00* NEW YORK MAYOR; Fiorello LaGuardia
6550 C "MEET ERNEST HEMINGWAY" 07-27-56 :60:00* "REPEATED BY POPULAR DEMAND"
6551 C "DANNY KAYE, PRINCE OF CLOWNS" 09-10-57 :51:30
6550 D "ERNIE PYLE; TYPEWRITER IN A 01-16-58 :60:00*
FOXHOLE"
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Total Number of Titles: 8 * running time is approximate only
Total Number of Programs: 8
Total Possible Episodes Are Unknown Missing Programs: N/A Total Programs in Collection: 8
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Overall Series Totals
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Total Number of Titles: 105
Total Number of Programs: 105
Total Possible Episodes: 97 Missing Programs: 10 Total Programs in Collection: 95
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