Rusc Old Time Radio General Knowledge #1

The correct answer is Midwest. "Father Knows Best" was a popular American sitcom that aired in the 1950s and 1960s. The show was set in the fictional town of Springfield, which was located in the Midwest region of the United States. The setting in the Midwest reflected the traditional American values and family dynamics that the show portrayed.

Fibber McGee and Molly is an American radio comedy series which maintained its popularity over decades. It premiered on NBC in 1935 and continued until its demise in 1959, long after radio had ceased to be the dominant form of entertainment in American popular culture. (Source: Wikipedia)

All of the radio shows mentioned in the question, including Blondie, Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner, Popeye the Sailor, Little Orphan Annie, and Red Ryder, have something in common. They were all adapted from comic strips. This means that these popular comic strip characters were brought to life through radio shows, allowing fans to listen to their adventures and stories.

The Great Gildersleeve was a spin-off show of Fibber McGee and Molly. This means that the character of Gildersleeve was first introduced in Fibber McGee and Molly and then got his own show.

The claim to fame of the old time radio show Clara, Lu and Em is that it was the first radio soap opera.

During the 1940s, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, famous for playing Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in films, repeated their characterizations on radio on The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which featured both original stories and episodes directly adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. None of the episodes in which Rathbone and Bruce starred on the radio program were filmed with the two actors as Holmes and Watson, so radio became the only medium in which audiences were able to experience Rathbone and Bruce appearing in some of the more famous Holmes stories, such as "The Speckled Band". (Source: Wikipedia)

Between 1946 and 1951, a total of 221 episodes of The Adventures of Sam Spade were broadcast.

The lead character of Broadway Is My Beat was named Danny Clover.

Freeman Gosden played Amos in the Amos 'n' Andy show.

Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts,[1] of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon,[2] along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts. (Source: Wikipedia)

Joe Friday is the correct answer because it accurately identifies the name of the detective played by Jack Webb in the TV show Dragnet.

Abbott and Costello's signature routine was called "Who's on first?" This routine involved a humorous dialogue between the two comedians, where Abbott would try to explain the names of the players on a baseball team to Costello. However, due to the confusing names of the players, Costello would constantly misunderstand and ask questions like "Who's on first?" This routine became one of their most popular and enduring acts, showcasing their comedic timing and wordplay.

Don Ameche and Frances Langford played the married protagonists John and Blanche Bickerson.

One of the very few still-running shows from the earlier era of radio is a Christian program entitled Unshackled! The weekly half hour show, produced in Chicago, Illinois by Pacific Garden Mission, has been continuously broadcast since 1950. The shows are created using techniques from the 1950s (including home-made sound effects) and are broadcast across the U.S. and around the world by thousands of radio stations. (Source: Wikipedia)

The 40th anniversary of what is widely considered the end of the old time radio era (the final broadcasts of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Suspense on September 30, 1962) was marked with a commentary on NPR's All Things Considered. (Source: Wikipedia)

The crimes in the old time radio show Calling All Cars were based in Los Angeles.

The first radio news program was broadcast on August 31, 1920 on the station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan; owned by The Detroit News, the station covered local election results. This was followed in 1920 with the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA, being established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Source: Wikipedia)

The correct answer is CBS. The Mercury Theatre on the Air classic "War of the Worlds" was first broadcast on the CBS radio network.

The early episodes of Amos and Andy were broadcast from the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs, California.

On March 10 1922, Variety carried the front page headline: "Radio Sweeping Country: 1,000,000 Sets in Use." (Source: Wikipedia)