Strange As It Seems
CBS
CBS · 1940–1950
Broadcasts
63
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 63
- Genre
- mystery
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS Strange As It Seems was a radio program of strange and unusual tales about fantastic people and events, based on the daily syndicated newspaper cartoon panels of John Hix of the same name. Strange As It Seems began as a 15 minute radio program on March 22, 1935. It was broadcast over the Columbia Don Lee Coast radio network. The schedule was 3 nights a week, Sunday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:45 PM (6:45 during summer daylight savings time). The sponsor was Ex-Lax. In late September 1935 the show changed to two shows per week, dropping the Sunday show. In late September 1936 the schedule changed again to Tuesday and Friday nights. A 1936 booklet of the Strange As It Seems stories was sponsored by Ex-Lax and given away as a free promotion of the radio program by writing to the station. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Strange_As_It_Seems_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
1 dated broadcasts across 12 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
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1939, in original transmission order.
- 1. Strange As It Seems 39-09-21 ep006 The World's Most Ingenious Salesman · 21 Sep 1939
- 2. The Woman Who Tempted Fate · Date unknown
- 3. London Pays Rent to the King · Date unknown
- 01
Strange As It Seems 39-09-21 ep006 The World's Most Ingenious Salesman
21 Sep 1939 · 24 min
- 02
The Woman Who Tempted Fate
Date unknown · 14 min
- 03
London Pays Rent to the King
Date unknown · 14 min
- 04
The Original Sherlock Holmes
Date unknown · 3 min
- 05
The Woman Who Sold the Winds
Date unknown · 15 min
- 06
Little Jack Horner Really Lived
Date unknown · 14 min
- 07
The Author Who Ate His Own Book
Date unknown · 12 min
- 08
Fort Blunder
Date unknown · 11 min
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