As usual, there’s absolutely no point to this… just a trip down memory lane. It all started this morning when I read that on this day (January 30) in 1933, the “Lone Ranger” began a 21-year run on ABC radio. Well, of course, that got me to thinking. When I was a kid I liked to listen to the radio. I didn’t have a radio of my own, but I remember spending a lot of nights and Saturday mornings in front of the big console radio in our living room. I tried to remember some of the programs that were popular (or at least on the air) when I was growing up and here’s what I came up with. The list is pretty long, but I’m sure there’s at least this many that I don’t remember….
Besides the Lone Ranger, I remember Abbot and Costello, Ozzie and Harriet, The Aldrich Family (or maybe it was just call Henry Aldrich.) Then there was Sam Spade, Amos ’n’ Andy, The Thin Man, Baby Snooks, Burns and Allen, Death Valley Days, Edgar Bergan, Hopalong Cassidy, the Great Gildersleeve, Dick Tracy, Fiber McGee and Molly, Gene Autry and Dragnet. I also remember Truth or Consequences, The Roy Rogers Show, Spike Jones, Perry Mason, Mr. and Mrs. North, Jack Benny, The Life of Riley, People are Funny, and The Shadow as well as Boston Blackie.
I think some of these were serials and some just came on every week. I wonder if I heard them today, I’d think they were as good as I remember….
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