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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Patricia Peardon: OTR Child Star of the Month April 2026

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Pat Peardon, about age 11, From Radio Stars , April 1936. Image from the Media History Digital Library.  Patricia Peardon  April 20, 1924* -...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Island of Lost Christmas Specials: The Lady Next Door's Christmas Party 1930

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  Snippet of a newspaper photo promoting multiple Christmas broadcast. Image of Madge Tucker at the top with an illustration depicting her a...
Monday, December 22, 2025

Island of Lost Christmas Specials: The Little Stranger on KFI Radio

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  The Island of Lost Christmas Specials. An imaginary place where forgotten reels, discs, and U-Matics could be found in time for Christmas....
Friday, December 19, 2025

Island of Lost Christmas Specials: Christmas Story with Patty Ann Gerrity

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Snippet from a NTA Film Network Ad for "This Is Alice" with Patty Ann Gerrity. Media History Digital Library.  Christmas Story (1...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

It’s A Charlie Brown Collection!

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Today is the 60th Anniversary of “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, which still doesn’t seem the same without a network TV rebroadcast or retrospe...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Silent Child Stars in Color: Mary Ann Jackson 001

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Mary Ann Jackson. Colorized from Exhibitor's Herald, May 26, 1928. Of all the girls from the Our Gang and Little Rascals film series, Ma...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Logging the Lost "Junior Detectives" Radio Program

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Newspaper Ad for the Blue Valley Junior Detectives  from the Cleveland Press , February 13, 1931. From Newspapers.com. Recently, my research...