Phil Harris and Dennis Day rode the popularity of Jack Benny on their own programs on NBC. In fact, for the first two years of its run, Harris' show immediately followed Benny's.

Hallmark Playhouse

Broadcast History: 10 June 1948 to 1 February 1953 and 8 February 1953 to 27 March 1955

In 1948, a new series called the Hallmark Playhouse was launched by Hallmark Cards, replacing the popular series, The Radio Reader's Digest, which had documented the true stories published in the Reader's Digest magazine.

This was a totally different genre of radio show, offering stories adapted from literary best sellers, and was presented by none other than the respected author, James Hilton.

James Hilton had written his first book when he was just 18, and from then, he became one of the world's best selling authors, screen writers and through his work on the Hallmark Playhouse between 1948 and 1953, one of radio's most popular hosts.

Introduced as tales of thrills, drama, suspense and laughs this is certainly what the shows are and I have yet to be disappointed by a single one of these dramas.

HP480610 - The Devil and Daniel Webster [258]
 6.5 MB

HP480617 - Mrs Union Station [258]
 6.48 MB

HP480624 - Unless Love Is Music [258]
 6.62 MB

HP480701 - Penny Serenade [258]
 6.64 MB

HP480708 - Pride Prejudice [258]
 6.6 MB

HP480715 - Girls Are Like Boats [407]
 6.47 MB

HP480722 - The Citadel
 6.42 MB

HP480805 - Afterward
 6.61 MB

HP480812 - The Old Nest [407]
 6.46 MB

HP480819 - Drums Along the Mohawk [407]
 6.33 MB

HP480902 - To Mary, with Love
 6.69 MB

HP480909 - Cimarron [210]
 7.12 MB

HP480916 - Good Bye Mr Chips [095]
 6.75 MB

HP480923 - Captain January [274]
 4.95 MB

HP481007 - Elmer the Great [167]
 6.22 MB

HP481014 - Arrowsmith
 7.08 MB

HP481021 - Mrs Parkinson [294]
 6.25 MB

HP481028 - O'Halloran's Luck [294]
 6.33 MB

HP481104 - My Friend Flicka [294]
 6.32 MB

HP481111 - Wild Swans
 6.9 MB

HP481118 - My Financial Career [294]
 6.46 MB

HP481125 - Free Land [000]
 6.84 MB

HP481202 - Old Man Minnick [407]
 6.03 MB

HP481209 - Woman With a Sword
 6.81 MB

HP481216 - The Desert Shall Rejoice
 6.9 MB

HP481223 - Story Of Silent Night [058]
 6.55 MB

HP481230 - Lost Horizon [407]
 6.81 MB

HP490106 - McCloud's Folly [407]
 5.28 MB

HP490113 - Clay Shuttered Doors
 7 MB

HP490120 - Parnassus on Wheels
 6.81 MB

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