D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
This will include a current CBS D-Day directory with some additions
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1944–1944
- Surviving broadcasts
- 34
- Genre
- western
(34 Episodes) "Big Sister," the creation of Lillian Laugerty, was a 15 minute daily CBS serial, which successfully broadcast from September 14, 1936 until December 26, 1952. Set in the fictional town of Glen Falls, the program dramatized the life of Ruth Evans who sacrificed her own happiness to care for her younger sister Sue and their crippled brother Neddie. After Sue married reporter Jerry Miller, Ruth continued to care for Neddie. She fell in love with Neddie's doctor, John Wayne, who cured Neddie. Ruth and John married on October 19, 1939, but during World War II, John was held in a Japanese prison camp. He returned to Glen Falls suffering from shell-shock. * STARRING: Alice Frost, Nancy Marshall, Marjorie Anderson, Mercedes MaCambridge and Grace Mathews (all portrayed Ruth Evans), Santos Ortega (Dr. Duncan Carvell), Staats Cosworth (Dr. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “BigSister”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: BigSister
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
1 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1944
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. Big Sister 1944-06-07 Meeting w Holly Soon · 7 Jun 1944
- 2. Big Sister 1944 · Date unknown
- 3. Big Sister 1944 · Date unknown
- 01
Big Sister 1944-06-07 Meeting w Holly Soon
7 Jun 1944 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 7 June 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Big Sister 1944
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Big Sister 1944
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Big Sister 1944
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Big Sister 1944
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Big Sister 1944
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Big Sister 1944
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Big Sister 1944
Date unknown · 10 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
7 Jun 1944
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 7 Jun 1944.
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
This upload contains the complete broadcast day for NBC Radio on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The broadcast begins at 2:50 a.m. Eastern War Time and continues until 6:00 p.m. on June 7, 1944. Not only is the news coverage professional and excellent at providing a real-time look at what the American people were learning as news was breaking, it is interesting to hear so many different religious leaders offer prayers in support of the invasion, the soldiers and the country. A different time.
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
NBC Broadcast D-Day 1944-06-07 (74) 08:45 Modern Romances
7 Jun 1944 · 14 min
This upload contains the complete broadcast day for NBC Radio on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The broadcast begins at 2:50 a.m. Eastern War Time and continues until 6:00 p.m. on June 7, 1944. Not only is the news coverage professional and excellent at providing a real-time look at what the American people were learning as news was breaking, it is interesting to hear so many different religious leaders offer prayers in support of the invasion, the soldiers and the country. A different time.
Lorenzo Jones
10 episdoes of lorenzo jones.comedy,soap opera
Lorenzo Jones
The few surviving episodes of this classic comic radio soap--an unusual entry from the fabled Frank and Anne Hummert soap factory. Karl Swenson as Lorenzo Jones; Betty Garde and Lucille Wall as his wife, Belle; Joseph Julian as Sandy Matson; John Brown or Frank Behrens as Jim Barker; Mary Wickes, Grace Keddy, or Nancy Sheridan as Irma Barker. Announcers: Don Lowe or George Putnam. Writers: Theodore and Mathilde Ferro.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1944–1944
Other series the network carried while Big Sister was on the air.
Same seasons
western on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The adult western
Gunsmoke was sold as the first adult western: moral ambiguity, weather, silence. Serialised folk horror and long-form fiction inherited its patience.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Big Sister
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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