Originally broadcast on NBC, 13 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1953–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 19
- Genre
- variety
Alka-Seltzer Time (aka The Alka-Seltzer Show ) was a 15-minute radio series broadcast weekdays on both CBS Radio and the Mutual Broadcasting System. This show should not to be confused with an earlier show called Alka-Seltzer Time that would later be renamed Herb Shriner Time . The show began in 1949. It stared baritone Curt Massey along with Martha Tilton and had the original title The Curt Massey Show (sometimes advertised as The Curt Massey and Martha Tilton Show ). The announcer was Ford Pearson. The show sponsor was Alka-Seltzer. The name was changed in 1952 to highlight the sponsor's product. By 1953, the…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Alka_Seltzer_Time_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
2 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
1953
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
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Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1953, in original transmission order.
- 1. (x) First Song On the Sunny Side of the Street · 9 Oct 1953
- 2. (x) First Song Moonlight · 13 Oct 1953
- 3. (x) First Song When Love Goes Wrong · 15 Oct 1953
(x) First Song On the Sunny Side of the Street
9 Oct 1953 · 14 min
Broadcast 9 October 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
(x) First Song Moonlight
13 Oct 1953 · 14 min
Broadcast 13 October 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
(x) First Song When Love Goes Wrong
15 Oct 1953 · 14 min
Broadcast 15 October 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
(x) First Song Moonlight When Shadows Fall
19 Oct 1953 · 14 min
Broadcast 19 October 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
(x) First Song Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula
21 Oct 1953 · 14 min
Broadcast 21 October 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
(x) First Song Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
22 Oct 1953 · 14 min
Broadcast 22 October 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
(x) First Song I Fall In Love With You Every Day
26 Oct 1953 · 14 min
Broadcast 26 October 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
(x) First Song Honey, I'm In Love With You
27 Oct 1953 · 14 min
Broadcast 27 October 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
13 Oct 1953
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 13 Oct 1953.
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “fibber-mc-gee-and-molly”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1953–1953
Other series the network carried while Alka-Seltzer Time was on the air.
Same seasons
variety on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Alka-Seltzer Time
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