The run
Curtain Time Curtain Time had two separate runs on radio. The fist run was sponsored by General Mills from 1937 to 1939 and the second aired from 1945 to 1950, sponsored by the Mars Candy Co. Interesting is that this romantic drama had a theater setting and announcements with the announcer shouting "tickets please". Many of the episodes were romantic stories where a boy meets his dream girl and what happens afterwards. Announcer for the series was Harry Halcomb who was later known best for his appearances on the 60 minutes television show. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “CurtainTime_876”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
12 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 10 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1938, in original transmission order.
2 Dec 1938 · 33 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
15 Mar 1947 · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
3 May 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
7 Jun 1947 · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
5 Jul 1947 · 20 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
9 Aug 1947 · 32 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
6 Sep 1947 · 17 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
6 Mar 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Mar 1948.
6 Mar 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Escape_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 March 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 March 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual / NBC
Other series the network carried while Curtain Time was on the air.
Same seasons
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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