Old time radio drama exists because of hobbyists and radio personnel, who rescued episodes of shows on transcription tapes and on glass or vinyl records. Some radio programs are presumed lost, primarily those from the 1930s – few programs from the 1920s were recorded

Hallmark Playhouse

Broadcast History: 10 June 1948 to 1 February 1953 and 8 February 1953 to 27 March 1955

In 1948, a new series called the Hallmark Playhouse was launched by Hallmark Cards, replacing the popular series, The Radio Reader's Digest, which had documented the true stories published in the Reader's Digest magazine.

This was a totally different genre of radio show, offering stories adapted from literary best sellers, and was presented by none other than the respected author, James Hilton.

James Hilton had written his first book when he was just 18, and from then, he became one of the world's best selling authors, screen writers and through his work on the Hallmark Playhouse between 1948 and 1953, one of radio's most popular hosts.

Introduced as tales of thrills, drama, suspense and laughs this is certainly what the shows are and I have yet to be disappointed by a single one of these dramas.

HP491208 - Christopher and Columbus
 6.73 MB

HP491215 - Wedding Morning
 6.51 MB

HP491222 - Silent Night [000]
 6.59 MB

HP500105 - The Egg and I
 6.68 MB

HP500112 - The Way West
 6.87 MB

HP500119 - Around the World in 80 Days [407]
 6.36 MB

HP500202 - Wine of Youth [407]
 6.39 MB

HP500209 - Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot
 6.64 MB

HP500216 - April 25th, as Usual
 6.65 MB

HP500223 - Autobiography of Will Rogers
 6.95 MB

HP500302 - The Indestructible Julia
 6.67 MB

HP500309 - Home to the Hermitage
 6.63 MB

HP500330 - Pioneer Preacher [244]
 6.09 MB

HP500406 - Arbutus of Bonnet [407]
 6.78 MB

HP500413 - Appassionata
 6.57 MB

HP500420 - My Sister Eileeen [274]
 6.79 MB

HP500427 - They Came to a River [407]
 6.66 MB

HP500525 - Knee Pants [260]
 6.72 MB

HP500601 - The Story of Kansas City [475]
 12.98 MB

HP501123 - Home to Thanksgiving [475]
 5.97 MB

HP501130 - Stephen Decatur [475]
 6.12 MB

HP501207 - The Third Ingredient
 7.12 MB

HP501214 - The Promise
 7.03 MB

HP501228 - Patrick Calls Me Mother
 6.9 MB

HP510104 - The Life of Theodore Roosevelt
 6.97 MB

HP510111 - Farmer in the Dell [407]
 6.41 MB

HP510118 - Old Soldiers Never Die
 6.87 MB

HP510125 - The Golden Horde
 6.42 MB

HP510201 - Goodbye, Mr Chips
 6.5 MB

HP510208 - Abraham Lincoln - A Man for the Ages
 6.71 MB

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