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THESE PAST EVENTS MADE HISTORY
THIS WAS RADIO!
Arch Oboler and Boris Karloff on Lights Out.
Lights Out is an old-time radio program devoted mostly to
horror and the supernatural.
Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by
Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks,
at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947
and the series eventually made the transition to television.
Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs,
predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum.
Wyllis Oswald Cooper
(January 26, 1899 – June 22, 1955)
RADIO SERIES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960)
Clark Gable for CBS Radio program, Silver Theater, and
the performance of ‘For Richer, For Richer,’ December
1939. The sponsor was the International Silver Company.
Silver Theater was a radio dramatic anthology series. Originating
in Hollywood, California, carried on CBS and on the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation.
First broadcast October 3, 1937, its last broadcast was August 17,
1947.
Rosalind Russell and James Stewart for their performance
on Sunday Afternoon Silver Theater.
IT WAS A REAL LIFE OF RILEY IN 1953
The original sitcom television series The Life of Riley aired on NBC
TV from October 4, 1949 to August 22, 1958. Jackie Gleason was
cast in the title role and William Bendix assumed the lead in 1953.
Jackie Gleason and Rosemary DeCamp
in the original 1949 television series.
William Bendix as Chester A. Riley
on The Life of Riley radio show.
(1953) William Bendix (1906 – 1964)
ORIGINAL RADIO SERIES DEBUTED IN 1926

Freeman Gosden (‘Amos’) and Charles Correll (‘Andy’)
On January 12, 1926, the two-man comedy series “Sam ‘n’ Henry”
debuts on Chicago’s WGN radio station. Two years later, after
changing its name to “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” the show becomes one
of the most popular radio programs in American history.
Gosden and Carrell, both vaudeville performers, were doing a
Chicago comedy act in blackface when an employee at the
Chicago Tribune suggested they create a radio show.


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