86
classic broadcasts of The Catholic Hour, with Fulton J. Sheen
581 classic broadcasts
of Eternal Light
6 more bonus classic Old Time
Radio Shows
ALL KNOWN EPISODES TO EXIST.
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like many others.
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The
Catholic Hour, with Fulton J. Sheen:
The Catholic Hour
was produced in co-operation with The National Council
Of Catholic Men. The show opened with hymns (from
various Catholic choirs) such as "Like The Dawning Of
The Morning", "Hail, True Body Of The Lord", "Panis
Angelicus", "Adoramus Te." The Catholic Hour is an
excellent religious and intellectual old time radio
show.
Many of the episodes featured heavy topics including
communism, racism in America, and the role of the
Catholic Church in government. On the topic of
interracial justice and equal rights, guest speaker
Jerome Kerwin (sociology, University of Chicago): "The
have equal rights as children in the house of the Lord."
The Catholic Hour featured different guest speakers on
different topics. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen often
hosted the program. Sheen is best known as the host of
televisions' "Life Is Worth Living" in the 1950s and
proclaimed, "We are at the end of a non-religious era."
Eternal
Light:
The Eternal Light
was an American radio and television program on the NBC
Radio Network, produced in conjunction with the Jewish
Theological Seminary, that was broadcast between 1944
and 1989. Featuring interviews, commentary, and
award-winning dramas from the perspective of Judaism, it
began on radio in 1944 and continued as a weekly radio
program through 1989. A 1946 program, for example,
dramatized humanitarian Lilian Wald's founding of New
York City's Henry Street Settlement in 1895. A May 31,
1959, program featured a tour of the Holy Land narrated
by Ralph Bellamy.
Beginning in 1952, The Eternal Light was also televised
by NBC as part of its Sunday morning religious
programming, along with Frontiers of Faith (produced in
conjunction with the National Council of Churches) and
the Catholic Hour. By the mid-1950s, the program had an
audience of more than six million weekly on radio and
television.
Milton E. Krents (1912–2000) was executive producer of
The Eternal Light radio program for 44 years. NBC
television's director for The Eternal Light, along with
its other Sunday morning televised religious programs,
was Martin Hoade (1916–2006). The program's editor was
Moshe Davis of the Jewish Theological Seminary, who
explained its purpose to a New York Times interviewer:
"The common man is always the hero in our show. We try
to put a contemporary subject in a concept of eternity."
NBC donated the air time and the Jewish Theological
Seminary budgeted the show's production expenses.
Spurning potential sponsorship offers, Davis told one
persistent business executive, "My good man, God needs
no sponsor".
Among the notables appearing on the series were Alan
Arkin, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Mel Ferrer, E. G.
Marshall, Raymond Massey, Alexander Scourby, Oli Motzkin
Sloam. Maureen Stapleton, Elie Wiesel, and Gene Wilder.
The program won numerous awards, including two Emmy
Awards and many Emmy nominations and Peabody Awards in
1962, 1967, and 1973. Krents received a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the National Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences for his production of The
Eternal Light. In 2007, a documentary about the series
done by Diva Communications, The Eternal Light—A
Historical Retrospective, won a New York Emmy Award.
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:
