Strange As It Seems (63 Episodes) Old Time Radio on 32GB USB

Description: Ebay Mobile Listing Responsive Template Auction Professional Html Design TapikaStore EZStart Software Strange As It Seems Product Description Strange As It Seems was a radio program of strange and unusual tales about fantastic people and events, based on the daily syndicated newspaper cartoon panels of John Hix of the same name. Strange As It Seems began as a 15 minute radio program on March 22, 1935. It was broadcast over the Columbia Don Lee Coast radio network. The schedule was 3 nights a week, Sunday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:45 PM (6:45 during summer daylight savings time). The sponsor was Ex-Lax. In late September 1935 the show changed to two shows per week, dropping the Sunday show. In late September 1936 the schedule changed again to Tuesday and Friday nights. A 1936 booklet of the Strange As It Seems stories was sponsored by Ex-Lax and given away as a free promotion of the radio program by writing to the station. The show was hosted by Gayne Whitman, produced and directed by Cyril Armbrister and the music was composed and directed by Felix Mills. Whitman had been the announcer on the Strange As It Seems movie shorts from 1930 - 1934. The programs included 2 or 3 segments of dramatized events in mini plays with dramatic, fanfare music interspersed in the show between segments. After the opening line, an Ex-Lax commercial would follow. Then 2 or 3 strange stories would be presented. The show would conclude with a preview of the next show's stories, an Ex-Lax commercial, a strange fact of trivia, such as "Butterflies smell with their feet" and finally a short musical ending. There were occasionally live interviews with unusual personalities, such as the World's Fastest Talker. Many of the programs were distributed on 16" 33 RPM records with one 15 minute show on each side. Many sources list at least 39 of these records with a total of 78 programs recorded. This run of the shows concluded at the end of January 1937, after over 210 shows. The show began again in January 1938 as a 15 minute once a week program, airing on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 (2:00 during daylight savings time). The show ended at the end of December 1938, with 53 shows in this run. The Strange As It Seems radio program was picked up as a 30 minute network program on the CBS network from August 17, 1939 to Dec. 26, 1940 on Thursdays at 8:30 P.M. (7:30 P.M. during the summer daylight savings time). There were 72 broadcasts of these half hour broadcasts. The sponsor was Palmolive Shave Cream and the host was Alois Havrilla. Havrilla was the announcer on the Stranger Than Fiction movie shorts beginning in 1934 and continuing in that role until the shorts were ended in 1942. Stranger Than Fiction was the successor to the Strange As It Seems movie shorts that ran from 1930 until 1934. The program had one final run in its original 15 minute format from Nov. 10, 1946 to April 13, 1947, airing at 7:30 PM on Sunday nights. ╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍╍ 1 Strange_As_It_Seems_39-09-21_ep006_The_World's_Most_Ingenious_Salesman - 24:472 The Author Who Ate His Own Book - 12:333 The Man Who Ate a Fortune - 11:254 The Man Who Sold the World - 11:515 The Banquet of Ghosts - 11:326 The Web Of Gold - 11:107 How America Was Named - 11:138 The Raw Deal - 11:439 Where Is Swanee River - 11:5110 Fort Blunder - 11:1911 The Diamond Dinner - 11:0112 The Elephant Who Ran A Zoo - 11:3913 The Costliest Temple in the World - 11:0714 The Mysterious River - 11:0415 The Self-Appointed Record Breaker - 11:4916 The Woman Who Tempted Fate - 14:5717 Strange_As_It_Seems_3x-xx-xx_ep016_The_World's_Smartest_Counterfeiter - 15:0818 Strange_As_It_Seems_3x-xx-xx_ep017_The_World's_Largest_Diamond - 15:0919 The Power of the Press - 15:0320 Rome Transplanted - 14:5321 Stories About the Oregon Trail - 15:0522 The Peacemakers - 14:5423 The Happy Accident - 14:5524 London Pays Rent to the King - 14:4725 Strange_As_It_Seems_3x-xx-xx_ep024_Poe's_Raven_Actually_a_White_Owl - 14:5126 The Martyr To Etiquette - 14:5527 The Devil Tracks Of Devonshire - 15:0428 The Man Who Financed the Revolution - 14:2629 The Key That Performed A Miracle - 14:5330 Horse Flies That Made History - 14:3731 The Old Fashioned Cure For Rabies - 15:0132 The Dog Came Back - 15:0233 The Human Horse - 15:1134 The Man Who Solved His Own Crime - 14:5535 The Beard Tax - 14:5636 Strange_As_It_Seems_3x-xx-xx_ep035_The_World's_Most_Valuable_Book - 14:5437 The Baby Spy - 14:5638 Strange_As_It_Seems_3x-xx-xx_ep037_Cinderella's_Slipper - 15:0539 The Original Sherlock Holmes - 03:5540 The Mystery of the Barbados - 14:5841 The King Who Saw Ghosts - 14:5742 The Man Fate Could Not Conquer - 15:0543 The Man Who Had Green Hair - 15:0444 The Lost Art - 14:5845 For Whom Was Pennsylvania Named - 15:0046 Strange_As_It_Seems_3x-xx-xx_ep045_Sarah_Bernhardt's_Coffin - 15:0247 The King Who Could Not Die - 15:0348 The Bloodless Battle - 15:1349 The First American Dice Shooter - 15:1750 The Mark of the Hesperus - 15:0651 The Woman Who Sold the Winds - 15:0852 Strange_As_It_Seems_3x-xx-xx_ep051_The_Smoker's_Rebellion - 15:2153 Strange_As_It_Seems_3x-xx-xx_ep052_The_World's_Most_Expensive_Cold_Cure - 14:5954 The Wolf Month - 14:5955 Owl Testifies At Trial - 14:5556 The Man Who Fell Five Miles - 15:1557 Little Jack Horner Really Lived - 14:5858 The Neck Verse - 14:4659 The Statue of Irony - 14:5060 Hot Money - 14:5261 Strange_As_It_Seems_3x-xx-xx_ep074_The_Pirate's_Revenge_-_Jean_LaFitte - 14:5862 Washington Crosses the Rhine - 14:4763 The Worthless Winner - 14:43 Payment Policy We accept payment by any of the following methods: Shipping Policy We offer FREE shipping on all orders! 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