The run
- Network
- Syndicated (Ziv)
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 31
- Genre
- sitcom
BRIGHT STAR Bright Star , also called The Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray Show , used big film stars to add to the appeal of the show and gain listeners. Best known for her films with Cary Grant, Irene Dunne left film action in 1952 to save her legacy as Hollywood’s First Lady. She had been nominated for five Academy awards in such films as The Awful Truth and Love Affair , but failed to win the award. Later President Eisenhower chose her to be the alternate U.N. delegate of the General Assembly in 1959. Though a prolific film actor through the 1930s and 1940s, Fred MacMurray is best known as Steve Douglas the patriarch on My Three Sons (1960-1972). A personal friend of Walt Disney, MacMurray starred in many Disney films including The Shaggy Dog , The Absent Minded Professor , and Son of Flubber . Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Bright_Star_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
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Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Bright Star 52-xx-xx (02) Susan Runs For Mayor · Date unknown
- 2. Bright Star 52-xx-xx (10) The Boxer · Date unknown
- 3. Bright Star 52-xx-xx (17) George Covers Hillsdale Fire · Date unknown
Bright Star 52-xx-xx (02) Susan Runs For Mayor
Date unknown · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bright Star 52-xx-xx (10) The Boxer
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bright Star 52-xx-xx (17) George Covers Hillsdale Fire
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bright Star 52-xx-xx (21) Scientific Living
Date unknown · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bright Star 52-xx-xx (34) The Society Burglar
Date unknown · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bright Star 52-xx-xx (52) Susan's Cousin, Emily (Last Show)
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bright Star 52-xx-xx (03) Hillsdale Becomes Mumdad
Date unknown · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bright Star 52-xx-xx (18) George Coaches Hillsdale High
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
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Syndicated (Ziv) in 1940–1950
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