+ Can You Imagine That? wasn't a particularly historic or ground-breaking production over West Coast Radio. It was simply entertaining. Nothing more, nothing less. A combination of Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Information Please, and Can You Top This?, the program was presented as a combination of docudrama sketches combined with vignettes about odd news items and historical oddities. Lindsay MacHarrie, who both wrote and directed the production, as well as acting in many of the vignettes, had been a prolific producer while at stations KHJ and KMPC in Hollywood. He also acted as host and narrator for the entire run. The format would tease three or four of the oddities to be presented, then after a 90 second commercial break would present the combination of fascinating vignettes for the evening. Presented in a 15-minute format, each episode managed to cram four to six interesting topics into the twelve minutes alotted to each script. In what would come to be a fairly formulaic format, the dramatizations would be heard first, often closing with a vignette about an old or popular song of the era. We did a bit of fact-checking on the historical vignettes presented throughout the series and they hold up pretty well even seventy years hence. Click here to read more about Can You Imagine That
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Please enjoy these 39 old time radio episodes:
| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
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| N/A | victim arrested |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "The victim of robbers is arrested, a fisherman catches a ... | |
| N/A | two million an hour |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A man earns $2 million dollars an hour, two famous author... | |
| N/A | two days on a streetcar |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A Russian immigrant rides continuously for two days on st... | |
| N/A | two billion dollar bet |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Two men bet more than $2 billion dollars on a building, c... | |
| N/A | tin can tied to dogs tail |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A tin can on a dog's tail almost kills two persons, a tra... | |
| N/A | stone giant |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A stone giant baffles a nation, an introduction is a supe... | |
| N/A | sneezing for 21 days |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A 10-year-old girl sneezes for 21 days, an Indian game le... | |
| N/A | reward nineteen years later |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A good turn brings a rich reward for a man nineteen years... | |
| N/A | parliament buildings |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "The British Parliament buildings are inspected regularly ... | |
| N/A | ostracize |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Ostracism was originally an oyster, a famous hymn plays a... | |
| N/A | number two is unlucky |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "The number 2 is unluckier than the number 13, parental pr... | |
| N/A | not english |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "The most widely spoken language in the world is not Engli... | |
| N/A | motion pictures |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Motion pictures have never been made in Hollywood Califor... | |
| N/A | more married men |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "There are more married men in the United States than marr... | |
| N/A | marriage customs |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Our modern marriage customs come from the ancients, a man... | |
| N/A | joan of arc |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Joan Of Arc was not proclaimed a saint for more than 400 ... | |
| N/A | his brothers father |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A man becomes his brother's father, a jury renders an imp... | |
| N/A | grog in 1740 |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Grog was originally an British Admiral, an 11-year-old bo... | |
| N/A | funeral fire |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A bonfire was originally a funeral pyre, a constable chas... | |
| N/A | frightened out of speech |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A young woman is frightened out of her speach, a curfew w... | |
| N/A | five men swindled |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Five noted men are swindled by two uneducated miners, a m... | |
| N/A | first car of funeral train |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "European diplomats argue over who shall ride first on a f... | |
| N/A | explosion heard three thousands miles away |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "An explosion is heard more than 3000 miles away from its ... | |
| N/A | detective stories |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Detective stories are more than twenty-five centuries old... | |
| N/A | tom molineaux |
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