The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- adventure
THE GRANTLAND RICE STORY RCA Thesaurus obtained permission to serialize Rice's popular "The Tumult and The Shouting" via their transcription subscription service. Titled The Grantland Rice Story , the 15-minute series comprised fifty-two sequential installments. First airing regionally as early as August 1955, the entire run soon appeared across the nation on various stations at varying times. Some aired it every weekday, some three days a week, some weekly. The program's 15-minute installments closely followed the text of Rice's book. Jimmy Powers, himself a noted sportswriter and announcer of 30 years, narrated, read and commented on Grantland Rice's story in the first person, as Rice had intended. Not quite the equivalent of today's audio-books, the material from "The Tumult and The Shouting" was augmented by contemporary asides and updates from Jimmy Powers. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Grantland_Rice_Story_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep01 Beginning at the Beginning · Date unknown
- 2. Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep06 Great Athletes-Past and Present · Date unknown
- 3. Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep12 Grannys Story of Gene Tunney · Date unknown
- 01
Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep01 Beginning at the Beginning
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep06 Great Athletes-Past and Present
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep12 Grannys Story of Gene Tunney
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep20 Grannys All-Time Football Team
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep32 Jim Thorpe
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep36 An Appraisal of the Game Football
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep41 The Mighty Mites
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Grantland Rice Story, The 55-xx-xx ep48 What Makes a Competitor
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while The Grantland Rice Story was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Grantland Rice Story
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