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Lux Radio Theatre was an American radio show that ran on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35), the CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Every week they broadcast an hour-long adaptation of a popular film or Broadway play, often starring members of the original cast. [1]
Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55).
The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater; Hollywood Theater of the Ear; Imagination Theater; NPR Playhouse; NPR's serialized adaptations of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi; A Prairie Home Companion; Radio Spirits; Sears Radio Theater; Seeing Ear Theater; When Radio Was; The Zero Hour
A one-hour radio adaptation of the film was broadcast January 9, 1950 on Lux Radio Theatre. Stanwyck and Lancaster recreated their screen roles. [9] The original May 18, 1943 broadcast of the radio program Suspense featured Agnes Moorehead in the role. It was repeated no fewer than seven times. [5]
Ride a Cock Horse is an original 1948 Australian radio play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It aired as an episode of Lux Radio Theatre and was one of the last plays Elliott wrote in Australia before leaving for the USA. [1] [2] The cast included Lloyd Berrell and Thelma Scott.
This summer series had a significantly smaller budget than its parent show, with each episode budgeted at $4250 [1] (by contrast, when Lux Radio Theatre aired its first show from Hollywood in 1936 that show's budget was a reported $17,000). [2] Because of the budget constraints, only a single major star headed-up each episode of the summer series.
This is the second time Act 1 Players have done a radio play, after recently performing “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The playwright, Joe Landry, is the same for both, Eubank said.
Episode Ref 1936: Lux Radio Theatre "Chained" 1937: Lux Radio Theatre "Mary of Scotland" 1943: Lux Radio Theatre "Each Dawn I Die" 1943: Lux Radio Theatre "Five Graves to Cairo" 1944: Lux Radio Theatre "The Hard Way" 1952: Theatre Guild on the Air "The House of Mirth" [75] 1953: Broadway Playhouse "His Brother's Keeper" [76]