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The NBC University Theater

     This NBC was heard from 07/30/48 to 02/14/51.  Most of the run was heard in the 60 format, but there were a few 30 minute broadcasts.  Many well known stars appeared on this series.  Among them were heard John Dehner, Brian Aherne, Angela Lansbury, Marvin Miller, Lou Krugman, Paul Frees, Herbert Marshall, Preston Foster, David Niven, etc.

 
Each of the following broadcasts are 60 minutes in length unless otherwise noted.
 
 
To order, select the following CD number(s) of your choice:
 
 
CD017029.
  08/06/48 # 2 A Farewell To Arms w/John Lund, Lurene Tuttle
 
CD017030.
  08/13/48 # 3 Number One w/Barry Sullivan, Wally Maher
 
CD017031.
  08/20/48 # 4 Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter w/Beulah Bondi, John Beal
 
CD017032.
  08/27/48 # 5 The Romantic Comedians w/Albert Dekker, Georgia Backus
 
30 minutes each
CD017033.
  09/03/48 # 6 Candide w/Eddie Bracken
  09/10/48 # 7 Peter Ibbertson w/Joseph Schieldkraut
 
30 minutes each
CD017034.
  09/17/48 # 8 The Purloined Letter w/Adolphe Menjou
  09/24/48 # 9 Gulliver’s Travel’s by Jonathan Swift w/Henry Hull
 
CD017035.
  10/03/48 #10 Lord Jim w/Brian Aherne
                                  (Mentioned as the second in the series of hour long broadcast)
 
CD017036.
  10/10/48 #11 An American Tragedy w/George Montgomery
                                  (Mentioned as the third in the series of hour long broadcast)
 
CD017037.
  10/17/48 #12 The History Of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells w/Boris Karloff
                                  (Mentioned as the fourth in the series of hour long broadcast)
 
CD017038.
  10/24/48 #13 They Stooped To Folly w/Paul Frees, Jane Webb
                                  (Mentioned as the fifth in the series of hour long broadcast)
 
CD017039.
  10/31/48 #14 Justice w/Nigel Bruce
                                  (Mentioned as the sixth in the series of hour long broadcast)
 
CD017040.
  11/07/48 #15 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis w/Van Heflin
                                  (Mentioned as the seventh in the series of hour long broadcast)
 
CD017041.
  11/14/48 #16 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham w/Brian Ahern
                                  (Mentioned as the eighth in the series of hour long broadcast)
 
CD017042.
  11/21/48 #17 The Short, Happy Life Of Francis McComber w/Preston Foster
                                  (Mentioned as the ninth in the series of hour long broadcast)
 
CD017043.
  11/28/48 #18 A Passage To India by E.M. Forster w/Joseph Shieldkraus
 
CD017044.
  12/05/48 #19 Three Soldiers w/Dane Clarke
 
CD017045.
  12/12/48 #20 After Many A Summer Dies The Swan by Aldus Huxley w/Paul Henried
 
CD017046.
  12/26/48 #21 Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll w/Dinah Shore
 
CD017047.
  01/02/49 #22 Main Street by Sinclair Lewis w/Vanessa Brown, Leon Ames
 
CD017048.
  01/09/49 #23 The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck w/Jane Darwell
 
CD017049.
  01/16/49 #24 All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren w/Wayne Morris
 
CD017050.
  01/23/49 #25 The Ministry Of Fear
 
CD017051.
  02/06/49 #26 Gulliver’s Travel’s by Jonathan Swift w/Henry Hull, Parley Baer
 
CD017052.
  02/13/49 #27 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding w/Tom Conway
 
CD017053.
  02/20/49 #28 Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen w/Angela Landsbury
 
CD017054.
  02/27/49 #29 The Heart Of Mid-Lothelian by Sir Walter Scott w/Maureen O’Sullivan
 
CD017055.
  03/06/49 #30 Tales Of Edgar Allen Poe
                           1. Noseology, 2. Cask Of Amontillado, 3. The Fall Of The House Of Usher
 
CD017056.
  03/13/49 #31 The Pickwick Papers w/Charles Coburn, Ramsey Hill by Charles Dickens
 
CD017057.
  03/20/49 #32 The Marble Fawn
 
CD017058.
  03/27/49 #33 The History Of Henry Esmond, Esquire
 
CD017059.
  04/03/49 #34 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte w/Deborah Kerr
 
CD017060.
  04/10/49 #35 Moby Dick by Herman Melville w/Henry Hull
 
CD017061.
  04/17/49 #36 The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain w/Dean Stockwell
 
CD017062.
  04/24/49 #37 The Way Of All Flesh w/Tom Conway
 
CD017063.
  05/01/49 #38 The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy w/Reginald Gardner
 
CD017064.
  05/08/49 #39 The Red Badge Of Courage by Stephen Crane w/John Agar
 
CD017065.
  05/15/49 #40 The Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad w/Brian Ahern
 
CD017066.
  05/22/49 #41 The Age Of Innocence by Edith Warton w/John Sutton
 
CD017067.
  05/29/49 #42 The Ambassadors w/Henry Daniel
 
CD017068.
  06/05/49 #43 The Short, Happy Life Of Francis McComber w/Preston Foster
                           (Repeat Of 11/21/48)
 
CD017069.
  06/12/49 #44 A Passage To India by E.M. Forster w/Joseph Shieldkraus
                           (Repeat Of 11/28/48)
 
CD017071.
  06/25/49 #46 Brighton Rock by Gram Greene w/Richard Stapley
 
CD017072.
  07/02/49 #47 The Ides Of March w/Henry Hull
 
CD017073.
  07/09/49 #48 Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton w/Herbert Marshall
 
CD017074.
  07/16/49 #49 Point Of No Return w/Kent Smith
 
CD017075.
  07/23/49 #50 How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn w/Donald Crisp
 
CD017076.
  07/30/49 #51 This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald w/Guy Madison
 
CD017077.
  08/06/49 #52 The Death Of The Heart
 
CD017078.
  08/13/49 #53 The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie  w/Robert Hutton, Parley Baer
 
CD017079.
  08/20/49 #54 The Crusaders by Stephan Heym w/Cesar Romero
 
CD017080.
  08/27/49 #55 1984 by George Orwell w/David Niven
 
CD017081.
  09/03/49 #56 Precious Bane by Mary Webb
 
CD017082.
  09/25/49 #57 Penrod by Booth Tarkington w/
 
CD017083.
  10/02/49 #58 Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James
 
CD017084.
  10/09/49 #59 The House Of Mirth by Edith Warton
 
CD017085.
  10/16/49 #60 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dresser
 
CD017086.
  10/23/49 #61 The Romantic Comedian w/Steven Chase
 
CD017087.
  10/30/49 #62 Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson w/Whitfield Conner
 
CD017088.
  11/06/49 #63 Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis w/Paul Frees
 
CD017089.
  11/13/49 #64 Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald w/John Dehner
 
CD017090.
  11/20/49 #65 For Whom The Bells Toll by Ernest Hemingway w/Louie Jean Heiht
 
CD017091.
  11/27/49 #66 Point Of No Return by (John) J.P. Marquand w/Larry Dobkin
 
CD017092.
  12/04/49 #67 The Wild Palms by William Faulkner w/Wally Mahr
 
CD017093.
  12/18/49 #68 You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe w/Marvin Miller w/Parley Baer
 
CD017094.
  01/01/50 #69 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens w/Terry Kilburn
 
CD017095.
  01/08/50 #70 Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passo w/Ann Diamond
 
CD017096.
  01/15/50 #71 The Ides Of March by Thorton Wilder w/Whitfield Connor (Repeat of 02/12/49)
 
CD017097.
  01/22/50 #72 At Heaven’s Gate by Robert Penn Warren w/Ted Van Eltz
 
CD017098.
  01/29/50 #73 Flowering Judas & Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
                          w/Georgia Ellis
 
CD017099.
  02/05/50 #74 The Track Of The Cat by Walter Van Tilburg Clark w/John Dehner
 
CD017100.
  02/12/50 #75 The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling
 
CD017101.
  02/19/50 #76 Victory by Joseph Conrad
 
CD017102.
  02/26/50 #77 The Patrician by John Galsworthy w/Ramsey Hill
 
CD017103.
  03/05/50 #78 Tono Bungay by H.G. Wells w/Whitfield Connor
 
CD017104.
  03/12/50 #79 There Is No Conversation by Rebecca West w/Norma Vardin
 
CD017105.
  03/19/50 #80 Angel Pavement by J.B. Priestly w/Gilbert Fyre
 
CD017106.
  03/26/50 #81 Howard’s End by E.M. Forrester w/Elma Laughton
 
CD017107.
  04/02/50 #82 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf w/Marion Richmond
 
CD017108.
  04/09/50 #83 The Nazarene by Sholem Asch w/Dean Whitman
 
CD017110.
  04/23/50 #85 A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce w/Tom Dillion
 
CD017111.
  04/30/50 #86 Sons And Lovers by D.H. Lawrence w/Ramsey Hill
 
CD017112.
  05/07/50 #87 England Made Me by Graham Greene
 
CD017113.
  05/14/50 #88 Protter Violet by Christopher Issuewood
 
CD017114.
  05/21/50 #89 The House In Paris by Elizabeth Bowen w/Anne Whitfield
 
CD017115.
  05/28/50 #90 Imperial Palace by Arnold Bennett
 
CD017116.
  06/04/50 #91 Gallion’s Reach
 
CD017117.
  06/11/50 #92 Monsieur Vincent by Wheeler Winston Dixon (Best foreign film 1948)
 
CD017118.
  06/18/50 #93 The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
 
CD017119.
  06/25/50 #94 The Doctor Is Spite Of Himself
 
CD017120.
  07/02/50 #95 The Chips Are Down by Jean-Paul Sartre w/Theodore Von Else
 
CD017121.
  07/09/50 #96 The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Mattics Roberts
 
CD017122.
  07/16/50 #97 The Treasure Of Franchard by Robert Lewis Stephenson
 
CD017123.
  07/23/50 #98 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
 
CD017124.
  07/30/50 #99 Trent’s Last Case by E.C. Bentley
 
CD017125.
  08/06/50 #100 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
 
CD017127.
  08/20/50 #102 A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes
 
CD017128.
  08/27/50 #103 Hedda Gabbler by Henry Gibson
 
CD017129.
  09/03/50 #104 The Crime Of Sylvester Bonard by Anatol France
 
CD017130.
  09/10/50 #105 Lost Horizon by James Hilton w/Raymond Hill
 
CD017131.
  09/17/50 #106 Portrait In The Mirror by Charles Morgan
 
CD017132.
  09/24/50 #107 Don Quixote
 
CD017133.
  10/01/50 #108 Jonathan Wilde by Henry Fielding
  10/08/50 #109 Candide by Voltair
 
CD017134.
  10/15/50 #110 North Anger Abby by Jane Austin w/Virginia McDowell (30 min)
  10/22/50 #111 Pere Goric by w/Stanley Wawman (30 min)
 
CD017135.
  11/02/50 #112 The Red And The Black
 
CD017139.
  12/27/50 #118 The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky w/Ramsey Hill (30 min)
  01/03/51 #119 The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoi w/Whitfield Connor (30 min)
 
CD017140.
  01/17/51 #120 Daisy Miller by Henry James w/Ray Stafford
  01/24/51 #121 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain w/Ted Von Eltz
 
CD017141.
  02/14/51 #122 The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy w/Donald Morrison
 
 
 
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