The cast of “The Goldbergs” during rehearsal of the popular radio show

The program debuted on the NBC Blue Network as “The Rise of the Goldbergs”,
later known as “The Goldbergs” when it moved to CBS in 1936. It was devised by
writer-actress Gertrude Berg as a domestic comedy featuring the home life of a
Jewish tenement family, supposedly located in the Bronx. In addition to writing 
the scripts and directing each episode, Berg starred as the Jewish matriarch
Molly Goldberg.
 

Gertrude Berg

The Buck Rogers radio show was the first science fiction program on radio. It
was broadcast four times weekly, Monday to Thursday evenings on the CBS
network. It soon gained a listening audience of 58,000 on over 23 stations all
over the country. The program aired for 15 years until 1947. Storylines were
similar to the comic strip with Buck finding himself in the 25th Century. Actors
Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin all voiced the lead
role at various times.

The radio series was produced and directed by Carlo De Angelo and later
by Jack Johnstone who later stated that the sound of the rockets was done
by using an air-conditioning vent.

 
Initial Buck Rogers, Matt Crowley

Buck Rogers cast: Adele Ronson as Wilma Deering, Edgar Stehli
as scientist-inventor Dr. Huer and Curtis Arnali portraying Buck
Rogers. 

 

     Roy Rogers (Leonard Franklin Slye) (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998)

Roy Rogers and Trigger

Rogers in his teens

                             William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers 

                         (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935)

Rogers was a cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator
and motion picture actor. He was one of the world’s best-known celebrities
in the 1920s and 1930s, known as “Oklahoma’s favorite son”.