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Title: Radio Scripts Collection
Dates: 1934-1981
Collection Number: WGF-MS-110
Creator/Collector:
Writers Guild Foundation
Extent: 1,000 files
Repository:
Writers Guild Foundation Archive
Los Angeles, California 90048
Abstract: This collection consists of approximately 1,000 American radio scripts containing 48 different series titles spanning multiple
genres - drama, comedy, mystery, musical, quiz show, documentary, children’s and religious. The bulk of the collection dates
from the 1940s through the 1950s. Well represented shows include A Date With Judy, The Whistler, Kay Keyser’s Kollege of Musical
Knowledge, and The Beulah Show.
Language of Material: English
Open for research.
The responsibility to secure copyright and publication permission rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Radio Scripts Collection. Collection Number: WGF-MS-110. Writers Guild Foundation Archive
Donated to the Shavelson-Webb Library by a variety of donors over many years.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of approximately 1,000 American radio scripts containing 49 different series titles spanning multiple
genres - drama, comedy, mystery, musical, quiz show, documentary, children’s and religious. The bulk of the collection dates
from the 1940s through the 1950s. Well represented shows include A Date With Judy, The Whistler, Kay Keyser’s Kollege of Musical
Knowledge, and The Beulah Show.
The following titles are represented:
A Date With Judy, Abbot and Costello Program, ABC Mystery Theater, Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Adventures of Sam Spade,
Adventures of the Thin Man, Amazing Mrs. Danbury, Ben Bernie and All The Lads, Beulah Show, Bill Goodwin Show, Burns and Allen
Show, CBS Mystery Radio Theater, The Chase, Citizen of the World, The Cobbs, Crime Letter from Dan Dodge, Dark Venture, Dick
Tracy, Duffy’s Tavern, Edgar Bergen Hour, Edgar Bergen Show, Eternal Light, Fibber McGee and Molly, Frontier Gentleman, Gunsmoke,
Have Gun Will Travel, Heartbeat Theater, Junior Miss, Kay Keyser’s Kollege of Music, Let’s Pretend, Mr. and Mrs. North, Murder
by Experts, Mutual Radio Theater, New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Norman Corwin Show, Our Miss Brooks, Phil Silvers Show, Ripley’s
Believe It Or Not, Robert Q. Lewis Show, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees, Sears Radio Theater, Smilin’ Ed’s Gang,
Snug Harbor, Stars Over Hollywood, Suspense, Tattered Man, Theatre Guild on the Air, Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou Show, Whistler
Radio scripts.