CBS
CBS · 1944–1944
Broadcasts
34
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1944
The run
(34 Episodes) "Big Sister," the creation of Lillian Laugerty, was a 15 minute daily CBS serial, which successfully broadcast from September 14, 1936 until December 26, 1952. Set in the fictional town of Glen Falls, the program dramatized the life of Ruth Evans who sacrificed her own happiness to care for her younger sister Sue and their crippled brother Neddie. After Sue married reporter Jerry Miller, Ruth continued to care for Neddie. She fell in love with Neddie's doctor, John Wayne, who cured Neddie. Ruth and John married on October 19, 1939, but during World War II, John was held in a Japanese prison camp. He returned to Glen Falls suffering from shell-shock. * STARRING: Alice Frost, Nancy Marshall, Marjorie Anderson, Mercedes MaCambridge and Grace Mathews (all portrayed Ruth Evans), Santos Ortega (Dr. Duncan Carvell), Staats Cosworth (Dr. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “BigSister”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
1 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
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Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
7 Jun 1944 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 7 June 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
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Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 7 Jun 1944.
7 June
1944
CBS / NBC
Wednesday
14 min
This will include a current CBS D-Day directory with some additions
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7 June
1944
CBS / NBC
Wednesday
28 min
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
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7 June
1944
CBS / NBC
Wednesday
24 min
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
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7 June
1944
CBS / NBC
Wednesday
14 min
This upload contains the complete broadcast day for NBC Radio on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The broadcast begins at 2:50 a.m. Eastern War Time and continues until 6:00 p.m. on June 7, 1944. Not only is the news coverage professional and excellent at providing a real-time look at what the American people were learning as news was breaking, it is interesting to hear so many different religious leaders offer prayers in support of the invasion, the soldiers and the country. A different time.
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7 June
1944
CBS / NBC
Wednesday
14 min
This upload contains the complete broadcast day for NBC Radio on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The broadcast begins at 2:50 a.m. Eastern War Time and continues until 6:00 p.m. on June 7, 1944. Not only is the news coverage professional and excellent at providing a real-time look at what the American people were learning as news was breaking, it is interesting to hear so many different religious leaders offer prayers in support of the invasion, the soldiers and the country. A different time.
Internet ArchiveCBD440606CBSDDayCBSCondition unmeasured
7 June
1944
NBC
Wednesday
15 min
10 episdoes of lorenzo jones.comedy,soap opera
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7 June
1944
NBC
Wednesday
15 min
The few surviving episodes of this classic comic radio soap--an unusual entry from the fabled Frank and Anne Hummert soap factory. Karl Swenson as Lorenzo Jones; Betty Garde and Lucille Wall as his wife, Belle; Joseph Julian as Sandy Matson; John Brown or Frank Behrens as Jim Barker; Mary Wickes, Grace Keddy, or Nancy Sheridan as Irma Barker. Announcers: Don Lowe or George Putnam. Writers: Theodore and Mathilde Ferro.
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