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The Silver Theater

49 episodes · 1937–1945 · CBS, Armed Forces Radio Service · Drama

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International Silver's Sunday drama hour, heard on CBS, starring Hollywood players in original stories and adaptations, many told in two or more parts. This run is mostly the 1938-39 season, with a few later shows.

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Episodes

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1937

• First Love" Part 1 October 3, 1937 · CBS · 31 min
  The first show: a boy and girl chase stardom in the whirl of Hollywood.
• First Love" Part 2 October 10, 1937 · CBS · 30 min
  Jean becomes a star, at a price.
• First Love Part 3 October 17, 1937 · 30 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• First Love" Part 4 October 24, 1937 · CBS · 32 min
  The conclusion: a Hollywood happy ending.

1938

• Stronger Than Steel October 2, 1938 · CBS · 31 min
  A gruff civil engineer builds a bridge in war-torn China and clashes with a missionary's daughter.
• The Moon's Our Home October 9, 1938 · CBS · 30 min
  Romantic comedy between a movie star and a famous author.
• Wings in the Dark October 16, 1938 · CBS · 30 min
  A blinded aviator works on his automatic pilot with help from his stunt-flyer girlfriend.
• Up from Darkness" Part 1 October 23, 1938 · CBS · 31 min
  Romance and tragedy in the coal mines.
• Up from Darkness" Part 2 October 30, 1938 · CBS · 30 min
  Labor trouble in the mines as a woman boss takes charge.
• Hollywood Legend November 6, 1938 · CBS · 31 min
  A dancer becomes a movie star, but she wants to be an actress.
• Stars in Their Courses" Part 1 November 13, 1938 · CBS · 31 min
  Two young actors marry at once and start a life of theatrical poverty.
• Stars in Their Courses" Part 2 November 20, 1938 · CBS · 31 min
  The theatrical romance gets its happy ending.
• The Captain Had a Daughter November 27, 1938 · CBS · 31 min
  Romance and action on the high seas in the days of the slave trade.
• Danger Lights December 4, 1938 · CBS · 31 min
  A railroad drama about a feuding father and son on the same line.
• Broken Promise" Part 1 December 11, 1938 · CBS · 31 min
  A woman makes a deathbed promise to a fellow prisoner about her teenage daughter. Pamela Caveness is introduced as Bette Davis's protegee.
• Broken Promise" Part 2 December 18, 1938 · CBS · 31 min
  The bitter ex-convict fights her enemy for custody of the singing girl.
• Challenge for Three" Part 1 December 25, 1938 · CBS · 30 min
  An heiress who smuggles gems for fun runs into a gang that isn't fooling.

1939

• Challenge for Three" Part 2 January 1, 1939 · CBS · 29 min
  The smugglers blackmail the heiress.
• A Study for Triangles January 8, 1939 · CBS · 29 min
  An author's creation, Lady Sybil, is so real she comes to life.
• The Debutante January 15, 1939 · CBS · 30 min
  A society woman takes a department-store job and falls for a poor chemist.
• Misty Mountain" Part 1 January 22, 1939 · CBS · 29 min
  An airline pilot romances a girl by radio as he flies over Misty Mountain, though he's never seen her.
• Misty Mountain" Part 2 January 29, 1939 · CBS · 31 min
  The pilot moves up in the company, with help from the girl on Misty Mountain.
• It May Be Forever February 5, 1939 · CBS · 30 min
  A woman engaged to a radio announcer suffers a heart attack just before they're to leave for Europe.
• Escape from Tomorrow" Part 1 February 12, 1939 · CBS · 31 min
  A man under arrest is flying home with his fiancee when the airliner crashes at sea.
• Escape from Tomorrow" Part 2 February 19, 1939 · CBS · 31 min
  Danny goes to prison but promises to break out before his baby is born.
• Dear Victim February 26, 1939 · CBS · 31 min
  Fraud meets fraud, with Cupid playing the love theme.
• Son of the Navy March 5, 1939 · CBS · 30 min
  A sea dog's daughter and a young quartermaster fall in love, complicated by a nine-year-old orphan.
• Love Is Where You Find It March 12, 1939 · CBS · 30 min
  A vaudeville team buys a farm when the wife's health fails.
• For Us the Living" Part 1 March 26, 1939 · CBS · 31 min
  A story of tomorrow: the rise of the first woman President of the United States.
• For Us the Living" Part 2 April 2, 1939 · CBS · 31 min
  President Ann Marshall faces a European war and an attempt at impeachment.
• The Man from Medicine Bow April 9, 1939 · CBS · 31 min
  A wealthy cowboy heads east to meet some real New York gangsters.
• Expert Opinion April 16, 1939 · CBS · 29 min
  A swindler fakes insanity to fool the experts.
• The Villain Still Pursues Her April 23, 1939 · CBS · 30 min
  An old-fashioned melodrama, played broadly for laughs.
• Love Is Our Destiny April 30, 1939 · CBS · 29 min
  Who murdered Alan Sutton? Madeline Conlon is accused.
• The Train Ride May 7, 1939 · CBS · 30 min
  A date with the electric chair, and a romance beyond death.
• Understudy May 14, 1939 · CBS · 30 min
  Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays both a famous actor and his understudy, talking with himself.
• Crossroads for Two" Part 1 May 21, 1939 · CBS · 30 min
  An actress adopts a Spanish Civil War orphan and contends with a pilot who wants to raise him too.
• Crossroads for Two" Part 2 May 28, 1939 · CBS · 30 min
  The season's last show: the actress, the pilot and the boy are caught in a European country as war breaks out.

1940

• Heaven Is Like That February 18, 1940 · CBS · 29 min
  A wealthy man dying of leukemia hires a servant girl to help him give his money away.
• Census 1940 April 21, 1940 · CBS · 29 min
  An old man, interviewed for the census, remembers his younger days.

1941

• Child Save My Fireman January 5, 1941 · 29 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• Murder Unlimited March 9, 1941 · CBS · 26 min
• One Step Ahead March 30, 1941 · CBS · 29 min
  A henpecked man loses his job and decides he won't take it anymore. Afterward, Orson Welles plugs his new film, Citizen Kane.

1942

• The Amazing Mr. Williams April 19, 1942 · CBS · 28 min
  The season's last show: a detective is out to catch the "Phantom Slugger."

1943

• Niagara to Reno (Dennis Day) August 8, 1943 · 30 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• And the Farmer's Son December 26, 1943 · 24 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.

1944

• The Sun Field May 28, 1944 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
  A baseball love triangle. Heard on AFRS as Front Line Theatre.

1945

• One Day After Another June 17, 1945 · CBS · 30 min
  A day in the life of Madge Sheldon, her husband and their five boys.
• Gilded Pheasant July 29, 1945 · 30 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.