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CBS Radio Workshop

Description

The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental CBS dramatic anthology from 1956 to 1957, reviving the Columbia Workshop tradition near the end of network radio drama.

The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental dramatic radio anthology series that aired on CBS from January 27, 1956, until September 22, 1957. Subtitled “radio’s distinguished series to man’s imagination,” it was a revival of the earlier Columbia Experimental Laboratory (1931), Columbia Experimental Dramatic Laboratory (1932) and Columbia Workshop broadcasts by CBS from 1936 to 1943. The CBS Radio Workshop was one of American network radio's last attempts to hold on to, and perhaps recapture, some of the demographics they had lost to television in the post-World War II era.

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Showtimes

Original schedule

  1. 19568:30 PM ET
    CBS · night
    SuMoTuWeThFrSa
  2. 1956–19574:05 PM ET
    CBS · evening
    SuMoTuWeThFrSa

Cast & Crew

Audio Clips

Audio Clip 10m33s

References

Hickerson, Jay. The 4th Revised Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide to ALL Circulating Shows.
Paulson, Roger C. Archives of the Airwaves (7 Volumes). The Old Radio Times.
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Dunning, John. On the Air : The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Sperdvac Radiogram.
“RADIO PROGRAMS SCHEDULED FOR THE CURRENT WEEK New York.” New York Times, October 6, 1929.
“Today's Radio Program.” New York Times, January 1, 1927.

Broadcasts