149
classic broadcasts of Life with Luigi
109
classic broadcasts of Life With The Lyons
666 more
bonus classic Old Time Radio Shows
ALL KNOWN EPISODES TO EXIST.
Don't be fooled by other
collections that claim to contain more episodes. Many of these shows
were aired on multiple dates in reruns, so you have plenty of
sellers out there padding their collections with reruns!
We feature all known episodes in existence and do not add
"fluff" to our collections to increase our claimed episode count
like many others.
NOTICE:
This collection is all in MP3 format supplied on DVD. You
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intended for your computer only which will allow you to transfer
the MP3 files to any device that can play MP3's. This
collection remains the largest most original collection.
Life with
Luigi:
Life with Luigi is
an American radio situation comedy series which began
September 21, 1948, on CBS Radio and broadcast its final
episode on March 3, 1953.
The action centered on Luigi Basco and his experiences
as a newly arrived Italian immigrant in Chicago. Many
episodes took place at the night school classes that
Luigi attended with other immigrants from different
countries. Another common theme involved Luigi's
landlord/sponsor, Pasquale, scheming to get Luigi to
marry his obese daughter. Perennial character actor and
two-time Academy Award nominee J. Carrol Naish played
Luigi.
Life with Luigi was created by Cy Howard, who had
earlier created the hit radio comedy, My Friend Irma.
The working title was The Little Immigrant, echoed in
the sign-off of each episode, "Your lovin-a son-a, Luigi
Basco, the li'l immigrant." Other characters on the show
included Pasquale (Alan Reed), another Italian immigrant
who is always trying to trap Luigi into marrying his
daughter Rosa (Jody Gilbert); native Chicagoan Jimmy
(Gil Stratton), Luigi's young business associate; Miss
Spaulding (Mary Shipp), Luigi's night school teacher and
ideal woman; and Schultz (Hans Conried), a German
immigrant and fellow student in Luigi's citizenship
class. Each episode used the framing device of Luigi
narrating a letter to his mother back in Italy.
The show was popular, successfully competing with Bob
Hope's The Pepsodent Show. For most of its run, Life
with Luigi aired at 9 pm on Tuesdays. Despite an
estimated 30% share of the audience in its timeslot, the
show was without a sponsor until Wrigley's Gum bought it
in 1950, continuing till the show ended in 1953.
Life With
The Lyons:
Life with the Lyons was a British radio and television
domestic sitcom from the 1950s (1950–1961 on radio,
1955–1960 on television).
Life with the Lyons featured a real American family. Ben
Lyon and his wife Bebe Daniels had settled in London
during the Second World War and featured with Vic Oliver
in the radio series Hi, Gang! that ran from 1940 to
1949. Life With the Lyons followed and, with Ben and
Bebe, featured their children Richard and Barbara Lyon.
Although scripted, it expanded on real-life events.
Writers included Jill Allgood, and Bob Block who created
the BBC television series Rentaghost.
Molly Weir was their Scottish housekeeper Aggie
Macdonald, Doris Rogers the nosy neighbour Florrie
Wainwright and Horace Percival played Mr Wimple. Two
cinema films were produced and the show then transferred
to BBC television. It later transferred to ITV.
A 1955 episode was shown on BBC Four on 27 March 2005 as
part of the "TV on Trial" season. The episode was not
shown "in the clear" – viewers had the choice of a
version without commentary but with on-screen logos, or
with commentary by Roy Hattersley and Kathryn Flett.
Many radio episodes were not kept by the BBC and only
three episodes are in the archives; these were on BBC
Radio 7 in early 2011. Following this broadcast, the BBC
were alerted to a private collection of 200 episodes up
by Graeme Stevenson in Scotland, and a selection of 14
episodes were rebroadcast on Radio 7's successor BBC
Radio 4 Extra between July and December 2011 and
rebroadcast at later dates.
And more
Bonus Radio Shows:
As a sampler of our old
time radio library, we are including these
classic old time radio shows on this DVD-ROM at no extra charge:
Life of Mary Southern |
Passing Parade |
Raymond Graham Swing |
Mamola Entertainers |
Penny Singleton |
Raymond Scott Show |
Moon River |
Pet Milk Show |
Red Barber |
Mr Feathers |
Pete Kelly's Blues |
Red Grange |
Mr I A Moto |
Pick and Pat |
Remember |
Now Here This |
Plantation Party |
Rogue's Gallery |
Obsession |
Play of the Week |
Roller Derby |
Order in the Court |
Playhouse {SA} |
Roma Wine Show |
Packard Hour |
Playhouse of Favorites |
Rumpole |
Palace Personalities |
Plays for Americans |
Sleepy Joe |
Paramount Movie Premieres |
Portia Faces Life |
Stairway to the Stars |
Parsley Sidings |
Press Club |
Stan Freberg |