RADIO THEATER- Scripts to Peruse

By now you know that you will be working in groups to perform an Old Time Radio Theater Play.  Listed below are six scripts for you to peruse. Please pick three that you would be interested in performing and bring this list to class with you.  If none of these are your cup of tea, please go to the Generic Radio Workshop's Script Library and pick one that does interest you.  Remember, this is a group project. If you are selecting a script that is not on the list below, make sure you pick one that your classmates would want to work on and that would also be interesting to your audience.
If you would like to read the script, simply click on the title and the link will take you to the script. ENJOY!



NOTE: All descriptions listed below are from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted.


Baby Snooks & Daddy: Halloween Episode

he Baby Snooks Show was an American radio program starring comedian and Ziegfeld Follies alumna Fanny Brice as a mischievous young girl who was 40 years younger than the actress who played her when she first went on the air. The series began on CBS September 17, 1944, airing on Sunday evenings at 6:30pm as Post Toasties Time (for sponsor General Foods). The title soon changed to The Baby Snooks Show, and the series was sometimes called Baby Snooks and Daddy.

In this episode, Daddy just wants to sleep and Snooks wants to go out and enjoy the holiday. Daddy decides to teach his daughter a lesson and hilarity ensues.
Click here for more about the Baby Snooks & Daddy show.
Click here to listen to audio of the show while you read your script. 

Dimension X: The Outer Limit

Dimension X was an NBC radio program broadcast on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951. The first 13 episodes were broadcast live, and the remainder were pre-recorded. Fred Wiehe and Edward King were the directors, and Norman Rose was heard as both announcer and narrator (his famous opening: "Adventures in time and space... told in future tense...").
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Click here to listen to audio of the show while you read the script.

Life With Luigi: Luigi Has a Toothache OR Springtime & the Dance

Life with Luigi is an American radio situation comedy series which began September 21, 1948 on CBS Radio, with the final episode broadcast on March 3, 1953. The story is about Italian immigrant Luigi Basco, and his experiences as a newly naturalized American citizen in Chicago. Many of the shows take place at the English classes that Luigi attends with other immigrants from different countries, or concern his attempts to fend off the repeated advances of the morbidly-obese daughter of his landlord/sponsor. Luigi was played by J. Carrol Naish, an Irish-American actor.

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Popeye: "Visiting The Zoo"

Popeye the Sailor Man is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar,^[1] who has appeared in comic strips and theatrical and television animated cartoons. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929; Popeye became the strip's title in later years. Popeye was adapted to radio in several series broadcast over three different networks by two sponsors from 1935 to 1938. Popeye and most of the major supporting characters were first featured in a thrice-weekly 15-minute radio program, Popeye the Sailor.

"In this episode you’ll hear of the adventure that Popeye encounters while visiting the zoo with Olive Oyl, Wimpy, and Matey the Newsboy (aka Sonny). You’ll notice when the famous sailor man runs afoul of an elephant he doesn’t rely on a can of spinach to give him muscles but rather bowls of Wheatena cereal…since Wheatena was paying King Features $1,200 a week as sponsor of the radio show…Popeye gave up on Spinach for a couple of years." 

Click here for more information about Popeye.
Click here for more information about Popeye the Radio Show.
Click here to listen to "Popeye Visits the Zoo" while you read.

The Strange Dr. Weird "Journey to the Oblivion"

The Strange Dr. Weird is a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945.
Sponsored by Adam Hats, the drama is notable in part because it was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler, both in theme and its narrator. Maurice Tarplin, who was also the creepy voice of The Mysterious Traveler. Many of the scripts were condensed 15-minute versions of scripts originally broadcast on The Mysterious Traveler.
To the accompaniment of an organ's spooky strains, Tarplin introduced each episode:

Good evening. Come in, won't you? Why, what's the matter? You seem a bit nervous. Perhaps the cemetery outside this house has upset you. But there are things far worse than cemeteries. For instance...

Click here to listen to this episode or to listen to other episodes from the same program.
Click here for more information about The Strange Dr. Weird.