CBS Radio Workshop — 1957
38 episodes broadcast in 1957.
A tribute broadcast on Carl Sandburg's 75th birthday, celebrating the life and work of America's poet of the people.
The life of Sophie Tucker -- 'The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas' -- dramatized with Margaret Whiting, Daws Butler, Hans Conried, and June Foray.
William Conrad narrates this docudrama reconstruction of the Malibu wildfire, one of the public-safety broadcasts the Workshop built from real news events.
Radio and television humorist Henry Morgan headlines "The Crazy Life."
A radio opera drawn from Balzac's tale 'La Grande Breteche' -- a story of jealousy, betrayal, and a walled-up secret.
An early scored credit for Jerry Goldsmith, then a young CBS staff composer, in what may be the earliest broadcast of his work.
Part 1 of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's sharp sci-fi satire 'The Space Merchants,' in which ad agencies have conquered civilization.
Part 2 of 'The Space Merchants' -- Pohl and Kornbluth's cold-eyed vision of an advertising-run future reaches its conclusion.
William Conrad, Richard Crenna and John Dehner headline this railroad-themed story ballad -- "Ballad of the Iron Horse," the period nickname for the steam locomotive.
An adaptation of Archibald MacLeish's landmark verse radio play 'Air Raid,' a work that helped define the artistic possibilities of the medium.
Ralph Bell stars in "The Endless Road."
Ralph Bell, credited on several Workshop broadcasts this season, stars in "A Dog's Life."
William Conrad stars in "No Plays of Japan" -- the IA audio files carry the title as "Noh Plays of Japan," referencing the classical Japanese theater form.
An Easter drama on the life of Christ -- Raymond Burr narrates, with Robert Young, Vincent Price, Victor Jory, and Herbert Marshall.
Ralph Bell stars in "Light Ship," a broadcast named for the anchored lightvessels that once marked hazardous coastal waters before automated buoys replaced them.
Elliott Lewis -- one of the Workshop's rotating directors -- is credited on "Nightmare."
Billed as "a glimpse of the future," this broadcast joins the Workshop's occasional forays into speculative fiction.
The Workshop turns to the headlines -- a hard-hitting documentary reconstruction of the Pacoima school air disaster, among the most urgent real-world stories the series ever told.
A self-referential radio essay: the Workshop turns the microphone on the art of tape editing itself.
Voices from Edgar Lee Masters' 'Spoon River Anthology' -- the dead of a small Illinois town speaking from their graves.
Edward R. Murrow and Senator John F. Kennedy appear together in this meditation on the Book of Ecclesiastes.
A documentary drama of the Battle of Gettysburg, narrated by John Dehner with Raymond Burr, drawn from the historical record.
James Thurber's comic baseball story 'You Could Look It Up' -- the one about a midget pinch-hitter -- performed by a New York radio cast.
Raymond Burr in a one-man play, carrying the entire drama alone.
Robert Heinlein's beloved sci-fi elegy 'The Green Hills of Earth' -- the ballad of blind spacer Rhysling -- performed by Everett Sloane.
John Dehner in an Edgar Allan Poe tale the log calls 'Poe With a Moral' -- 'Never Bet the Devil Your Head.'
A Hawaiian-vacation feature -- "malihini" being the Hawaiian word for newcomer -- with a large ensemble including Lurene Tuttle, Virginia Gregg, Joe DeSantis, Jack Kruschen and Ben Wright.
A public-safety drama about reckless driving, closing with a personal message from New York Governor Averell Harriman.
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