PARLEY BAER (1914 - 2002) Prolific radio actor

 

Episode 36 aired February 22, 1948 over the CBS Radio Network. A professor who has rejected companionship is haunted by an invisible creature. Luis Van Rooten as Professor Guildea and the narrator, Father Murchison played by Parley Edward Baer (PHOTO) (August 5, 1914 – November 22, 2002) who was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. Despite dozens of appearances in television series and theatrical films, he remains best known as the original "Chester" in the radio version of Gunsmoke, and as the Mayor of Mayberry (Roy Stoner) in The Andy Griffith Show. 

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Columbia Broadcasting System

CBS can trace its origins to the creation, on January 27, 1927, of the "United Independent Broadcasters" network. Established by New York City talent agent Arthur Judson, United soon looked for additional investors; the Columbia Phonographic Manufacturing Company (also owners of Columbia Records), rescued the company in April 1927, and as a result, the network was renamed "Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System." Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18, 1927, from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and 15 affiliates. Unable to sell enough air time to advertisers, on September 25, 1927, Columbia sold the network for $500,000 to William S. Paley, son of a Philadelphia cigar manufacturer. With Columbia Phonographic's removal, Paley streamlined the corporate name to "Columbia Broadcasting System." Paley believed in the power of radio advertising; his family's company had seen their "La Palina" cigar become a best-seller after young William convinced his elders to advertise it on Philadelphia radio station WCAU.

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Bill Herz of ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Dies at 99

Mr. Herz, who labored on other radio and theater productions as stage manager and casting director for Welles’s Mercury Theater company.
Welles’s CBS show “The Mercury Theater around the Air” presented an adaptation from the H. G. Wells novel “The War of the Worlds” because of its Halloween episode on Sunday, March. 30, 1938. The live hour long program started by having an up-to-date prelude towards the original novel strangely warning that super intelligent creatures have been coveting “this Earth with envious eyes.” OBIT | CBS

 VIDEO (AUDIO) The Complete CBS Broadcast of Orson Welles and "War of the Worlds".. 

Stage Struck with Mike Wallace

Stage Struck Radio Log...|...OTR Site Log

 1954 CBS radio show, hosted by Mike Wallace called STAGESTRUCK was heard on Friday evenings at 9PM (EST). (Sundays in some cities) Stagestruck first aired on CBS radio, April 4, 1954 with “The Story of Spring on Broadway.” This CBS series hosted by Mike Wallace Featured retrospectives on the famous broadway stars and also covered the B'way scene at the time...featuring interviews, scenes, and musical numbers from current and past popular broadway shows.