Academy Award
CBS
CBS · 1940–1950
Broadcasts
39
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 39
- Genre
- theatre
ACADEMY AWARD Academy Award was a CBS radio anthology series which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays, novels or films. The program's title is listed in one source as Academy Award Theater . Rather than adaptations of Oscar-winning films, as the title implied, the series offered "Hollywood's finest, the great picture plays, the great actors and actresses, techniques and skills, chosen from the honor roll of those who have won or been nominated for the famous golden Oscar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences." With that as a guideline, any drama could be presented as long as the cast included at least one Oscar-nominated performer. For example, Robert Nathan's 1940 novel Portrait of Jennie was not released as a film until 1949. David O. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Academy_Award_Theater_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
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Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Kitty Foyle · Date unknown
- 2. Stagecoach · Date unknown
- 3. Ruggles Of Red Gap · Date unknown
- 01
Kitty Foyle
Date unknown · 29 min
- 02
Stagecoach
Date unknown · 29 min
- 03
Ruggles Of Red Gap
Date unknown · 29 min
- 04
The Maltese Falcon
Date unknown · 29 min
- 05
Hold Back The Dawn
Date unknown · 29 min
- 06
Keys To The Kingdom
Date unknown · 29 min
- 07
Cheers For Mss Bishop
Date unknown · 29 min
- 08
Lost Horizon
Date unknown · 29 min
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