Please
Stand by
A Prehistory 
of Television
BY MICHAEL RITCHIE
Even before there was "Howdy Doody" or "The Honeymooners'" there was television.  
Please Stand By is the first book to cover comprehensively the earliest days of TV, 
the period between 1920 and 1948, before there were regularly scheduled programs.

The 60 Greatest Old-Time
RADIO SHOWS
That Transitioned to TV
Radio played a very important part in the pre-history of television.
Radio Spirits teamed up with Walter Cronkite to select the 60
Greatest Old-Time Radio shows that transitioned to television.
This landmark collection represents the classic radio series that
continued to entertain during the Golden Age of Television.


Please Stand by, A Prehistory of Television
Please Stand By includes remarkable stories of many television "firsts" such as the first commercial, the first soap opera, the first sportscast, 
and the first newscast, as well as rare interviews with many of television's pioneers - the inventors, station owners, writers, actors, presenters and crews.

     The book is in Like New Conditioned
    Hardback - 256 pages
  • Publisher : Overlook Books 
  • Language: : English

The Old-Time Radio Cassette Collection
Walter Cronkite Selects...
The 60 Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows 
That Transitioned to TV
60 Broadcast - 30 Hours - 20 Cassettes
Includes a 64-Page Booklet and an Audio Foreword by Walter Cronkite

  • The condition cassette album  is very good.  There is a wrinkling in the plastic covering of the cassette album.
  • The condition of the cassettes is like new, most never played.
Cassette #1:                                                                                                 Cassette #11
     Audio foreword by Walter Cronkite                                                             Mr. & Mrs. North - "The Wheel of Chance" - 6/30/53
     The Jack Benny Program - "Will TV  Replace Radio" - 2/12/50                   Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Unwelcome Ambassador - 9/12/1048
     Gunsmoke - "The Buffalo Hunter" - 10/24/53                                                 Ozzie & Harriet - "The Haunted House ' - 10/31/48
     Suspense - "A Murderous Revision" -  1/13/51                                               
                                                                                                                        Cassette #12     
Cassette #2                                                                                                            Burns & Allen - Kansas City's favorite singer - 6/6/44
     The Lone Ranger - "Through the Wall" - 8/13/51                                              Casey, Crime Photographer - "The Miracle" - 1/15/48
     The Adventures of Superman - :The Diamond of Death" - 12/17/49               Halls of Ivey - Fighting med student - 5/24/50
     Dragnet - "The Bif Look" - 5/11/54
                                                                                                                          Cassette #13
Cassette #3                                                                                                              Gang Busters - "The case of the Mound City Safecrackers - 1940s
     Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle - "The Arena of Death" - 4/10/52                            The Quiz Kids - Eight anniversary show - 6/27/48
      Tales of the Texas Rangers - "Paid In Full" - 5/13/51                                        Dr. Kildare - "Priscilla's Broken Arm" - 6/22/50
      Abbott & Costello -  : Teaching Marilyn Maxwell - 2/27/47
                                                                                                                            Cassette #14
Cassette #4                                                                                                                My Favorite Husband - Liz feels she's getting old- 5/20/49                                                   
     Blondie - "Alexander the Actor" - 2/16/50                                                              The Thin Man - "The Adventure of the Passionate Palooka - 7/6/48
     Father Knows Best - "Vacation Arrives" - 7/6/50                                                   Ellery Queen - "The Adventure of the Message in Red" - 11/7/45
     Hopalong Cassidy - "Coltsville Terror" - 1/15/50
                                                                                                                               Cassette #15
Cassette #5                                                                                                                    The Aldrich Family - Mary's marriage mix-up - 10/7/48
     Have Gun, Will Travel - "The Monster of Moon Ridge" - 3/30/59                              Fred Allen - Guest: Bing Crosby - 5/23/48 
     Topper - "Rajah" - 9/6/45                                                                                            My Little Margie - Going camping - 6/12/55
      The Cisco Kid - "Beyond the Frontier" - 1/28/54
                                                                                                                                  Cassette #16
Cassette #6                                                                                                                     Our Miss Brooks - School Board - 9/11/48
     The Third Man - "Voodoo"  - 8/31/51                                                                          The Big Story - "Gambling, Divorce and Murder" - 1/11/50
     Studio One - "Arabesque" - 6/29/48                                                                            Richard Diamond, Private Detective - "The Cover Up Murders" - 6/7/53
     Sergeant Preston of the Yukon - "A Swill O' Gunpower - 12/31/47
                                                                                                                                    Cassette #17
Cassette #7                                                                                                                        Frank Sinatra - Guest: Gene Kelly - 10/17/45
     The Ford Theater - "A Connecticut Yankee inKing Arthur's Court - 10/5/47                 Philip Marlowe - "The Persian Slippers" - 10/3/48
      The Great Gildersleeve - "Three New Year's Parties" - 12/31/47                                Red Skelton - Candy - 4/11/44

Cassette #8                                                                                                                  Cassette #18
     The Milton Berle Show - "Saluting Communications" - 2/17/48                                     The Saint - "The Schizaphrenic Psychiatrist" - 9/18/49
     The Life of Riley - "Riley the TV Actor" - 3/30/50                                                            Your Hit Parade - with Frank Sinatra - 3/20/48
     Lights Out - "Death Robbery" - 7/16/47                                                                           Mr. District Attorney - 'The Case of the Desert Killer" - 1950s

Cassette #9                                                                                                                     Cassette #19
     The Lux Radio Theatre -  "Samson and Delilah" - 11/19/51                                              Boston Blackie - "Alice Manleder - Dead or Alive?" - 8/4/44
     The Lassie Show - "The Big Cat ' - 1940s                                                                          Space Patrol - "The Lady from Venus" - 12/20/52
     You Bet Your Life - The Secret word: Picture - 8/11/58                                                       Arch Oboler's Plays - Gallery of Big Shots" - 7/12/45

Cassette #10                                                                                                                     Cassette #20
     Perry Mason - "Show Business or the Law" - 12/28/53                                                        The Cavalcade of America - :Spy  on the Kilocycles" 10/8/45
     Bob & Ray -  Wally Balou at a Connecticut race car event. - 1950s                                      Martin & Lewis - Guest: Jane Wyman - 11/30/51
     The Campbell Playhouse - "June Moon" - 3/24/40                                                               Bing Crosby - Guest: Bob Hope - 1/16/52
     Arthur Godfrey Time - American tourists in Europe - 10/21/53