+ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | clam chowder |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Chowder is not an American dish, but baseball is an Ameri... | |
| N/A | chimp language |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A man compiles a dictionary of chimpanzee language, Cince... | |
| N/A | building rises from the sea |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A building more than 500 years-old rises from the sea, mi... | |
| N/A | boy battles eagle |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A boy engages in a fight-to-the-death battle with an eagl... | |
| N/A | black cats |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A black cat does bring bad luck, an attorney wins an impo... | |
| N/A | bits of bread |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "There are more married men in the United States than marr... | |
| N/A | babies and weather |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Tiny babies detect a meteorological disturbance, $20,000 ... | |
| N/A | aunt marys new tooth | ||
| N/A | ape saved key possession |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "An ape saves a key possession of the British empire, a ma... | |
| N/A | animals field day |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Animals have a field day in New Jersey, kisses pay off a ... | |
| N/A | angel of death |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "The angel Gabriel is never mentioned in the bible as "The... | |
| N/A | a girl changes her mind |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "A girl changes her mind as she changes her stockings, Den... | |
| N/A | 44 year old quarrel |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "Two women patch up a 44-year-old quarrel, the mystery of ... | |
| N/A | 1788 war prediction |
+ Music fill for local commercial insert. "The wars of the 20th century were prophisized in 1788, ca... |
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