Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae

Jul 23 2023 75 mins

Hosted by Monica Jones, the Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae, or ARTS, airs on the YouTube channel, Whose Blind Life is it Anyway, and features a mishmash of old-time-radio shows from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and '60s. With artists like Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Amos and Andy, Burns and Allen and Dr. Christian, and shows like Box 13, Lux Radio Theater, The Red Skelton Show, The Six-Shooter and The Saint, among others, Monica is able to entertain one's mind, taking it to far away lands, long ago times and many interesting heroes, giving you an experience that only a mind can conjure up.

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ARTS 060: Academy Awards Theater

Jul 23 2023 91 mins  
On this week’s Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae, Pepsi-Mama presents some of movie and television’s greatest actors in the Academy Award Theater. Academy Award (also listed as Academy Award Theater) is a CBS radio anthology series, which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays, novels, or films. Dramas were presented in which actors recreated their original film roles included H

ARTS 059: Life with Luigi

Jul 16 2023 135 mins  
On today’s Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae, Pepsi-Mama takes you down the immigrant highway with the show, “Life with Luigi”. Life with Luigi is an American radio situation comedy series which began September 21, 1948, on CBS Radio and broadcast its final episode on March 3, 1953. The action centered on Luigi Basco and his experiences as a newly arrived Italian immigrant in Ch

ARTS 058: Lum and Abner (1939)

Jul 02 2023 179 mins  
Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff, that was aired from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to "Pine Ridge" after the show's fictional town. The series was created by co-stars Chester

ARTS 057: The Missing Episodes

Jun 25 2023 190 mins  
On this episode of the Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae, the show presents unaired episodes that were omitted from previous episodes for one reason or another, and though Pepsi-Mama is off sick, Victor is hosting this episode. And because he feels nostalgic, he’s bringing back Pepsi-Mama’s strawberry. You can find a list of the various shows that are going to be broadcast: The Ad

ARTS 056: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Jun 24 2023 140 mins  
On this week’s Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae, Pepsi-Mama brings you Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and old-time-radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from 1949 to 1962. There were approximately 810 episodes created, with holiday specials, and the character changed from a private investigator to an insurance investigator. On this episode of ARTS, Pepsi-mama has brought you six of her

ARTS 055: The Lone Ranger

Jun 11 2023 108 mins  
In 1933, a character was conceived and brought to live by two-disc jockeys in Detroit, Michigan. This character became an American icon, and became a template for western heroes for years to come. The Lone Ranger spawned a radio series totaling almost 3000 episodes, several books, a hit television show, and many movies and parodies that outright flattered the character, while at th

ARTS 054: The Big Show

May 20 2023 185 mins  
This week’s Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae, features variety in two big shows, literally and figuratively. Pepsi-Mama brings you The Big Show, NBC’s last ditch effort to keep radio alive, trying to keep it’s audience which was being lured away by television, a new medium that just started selling on the market. The Big show was hosted by Tallulah Bankhead, and featured comic,

ARTS 053: Gunsmoke

May 07 2023 180 mins  
On this episode of the Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae, Monica brings you the classic show Gunsmoke, which first started on the radio before moving to it’s iconic spot on national television stations. Monica brings you six Gunsmoke episodes beginning with the first pilot episodes of the series that CBS first contracted the producers to write. The first, a darker version of Phillip

ARTS 052: The Dennis Day Show

Apr 01 2023 189 mins  
The comparable Dennis Day was born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, who grew up in the Bronx area of New York City. He first started singing with Larry Clinton for network radio programs which were then aimed at a collegiate audience and often broadcast from a college campus. Gene McNulty, as he was then known, came to the attention of Mary Livingston, who was then married to Jack Benn

ARTS 051: Lux Radio Theater

Mar 23 2023 176 mins  
On this episode of the Afternoon Radio theater sundae, Monica Brings you episode of Lux Radio Theater, featuring dramas adapted from well-known authors, and movie adaptations. This week’s features are:The Showoff, featuring The Great Gildersleeves in an adaptation of the George Kelly play and silent movie of the same name.The Thin Man, based on the work of the same name written b