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+ Ma Perkins (sometimes called Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins) is an American radio soap opera which was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960. Between 1942 and 1949, the show was heard simultaneously on both networks. Oxydol dropped its sponsorship in 1956. The series was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert with scripts by Robert Hardy Andrews, Orvin Tovrov and others. Ma Perkins began August 14, 1933 on WLW in Cincinnati. On December 4 of that year, it graduated to the NBC Red network. On NBC and CBS the series ran for a total of 7,065 episodes. "America’s mother of the air" was portrayed by actress Virginia Payne, who began the role at the age of 23 and never missed a performance during the program's 27-year run. Kindly, trusting widow Ma Perkins had a big heart and a great love of humanity. She always offered her homespun philosophy to troubled souls in need of advice. Ma owned and operated a lumber yard in the small Southern town of Rushville Center (population 4000), where the plotlines pivoted around her interactions with the local townsfolk and the ongoing dilemmas of her three children, Evey, Fay and John. One of her children died during World War II. Ma's daughter Fay was played by Isabelle Krehbiel and Rita Ascot. Gilbert Faust had the role of John. Evey Perkins was played by Dora Johnson, Laurette Fillbrandt and Kay Campbell, who later became known for playing Grandma Kate Martin on the television soap opera All My Children. Shuffle Shober, Ma's best friend, was played by Charles Egelston (and later Edwin Wolfe). Murray Forbes (1905-1987) was heard as Willie Fitz, and Cecil Roy portrayed Junior Fitz. When the show finally ended on Friday, November 25th, 1960, the day after Thanksgiving Day, it was one of only eight entertainment shows still on the CBS radio network. The last episode was the only one in which Virginia Payne's name was mentioned, by Payne herself in a farewell speech. In all other episodes, the announcer at the close of the show would run down the names of all the actors in the cast (but one), and then say, "... and Ma Perkins."-WikiPedia Click here to read more about Ma Perkins

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
12.25.1950	ma perkins (4531)	+ Program #4531. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Shuffle returns to the lumber yard. Faye gets a call from New...
12.20.1950	ma perkins (4528) everyone is in a flutter	+ Program #4528. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Faye decides she doesn't want to visit New York and Spencer G...
12.19.1950	ma perkins (4527) mr grayson arrives in rushville center	+ Program #4527. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Bonita thanks Ma for getting the cousins out of jail. Faye is...
11.30.1950	ma perkins (4514)	+ Program #4514. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Ma, Willie and Shuffle try to get information from Cousin Bon...
11.29.1950	ma perkins (4513) ma finally learns the truth	+ Program #4513. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Ma finally learns the truth about the cousins (again). She te...
11.08.1950	ma perkins (4498)	+ Program #4498. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Who should come to town, of all people, the real Mitch Myers....
11.07.1950	ma perkins (4497)	+ Program #4497. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Ma has finally decided to see if Mitch Myers really signed th...
11.06.1950	ma perkins (4496)	+ Program #4496. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Shuffle has proof that Mr. Myers isn't connected with the min...
11.03.1950	ma perkins (4495)	+ Program #4495. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Sylvester has proposed and Faye has turned him down. Ma quizz...
10.25.1950	ma perkins (4488) mr myers comes to town	+ Program #4488. SponsoreFrom 1933-1960, listeners tuned in daily to listen to the drama that Ma Per...
10.24.1950	ma perkins (4487) ma wants to know if mr myers is involved with the fake stock	+ Program #4487. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Ma suspects that Slyvester and Faye are going to elope. Sylve...
10.16.1950	ma perkins (4481) ma and ed discuss sylvester	+ From 1933-1960, listeners tuned in daily to listen to the drama that Ma Perkins offered. Ma Perkin...
10.09.1950	ma perkins (4476)	+ Program #4476. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Sylvester's car has been wrecked. Cousin Bonita suggests that...
10.06.1950	ma perkins (4475)	+ Program #4475. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Ma recalls to herself all the trouble she's had since the cou...
10.03.1950	ma perkins (4472)	+ Program #4472. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Sylvester decides to wreck his car and collect the insurance ...
10.02.1950	ma perkins (4471)	+ Program #4471. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Faye gets Sylvester to promise to return the $2000. He's afte...
09.29.1950	ma perkins (4470)	+ Program #4470. Sponsored by: OxydolFrom 1933-1960, listeners tuned in daily to listen to the drama...
09.28.1950	ma perkins (4469)	+ Program #4469. Sponsored by: Oxydol. The family meets to decide how to talk Evie out of mortgaging...
09.27.1950	ma perkins (4468)	+ Program #4468. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Shuffle is very disappointed with Ma's leniency toward the co...
09.26.1950	ma perkins (4467)	+ Program #4467. Sponsored by: Oxydol. The Cousins have alibied so well that Ma still has her doubts...
09.21.1950	ma perkins (4464)	+ Program #4464. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Ma finally confronts the cousins and asks them why they lied....
09.20.1950	ma perkins (4463) shuffle is overjoyed	+ Program #4463. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Shuffle is overjoyed that at last Ma has found out about the ...
09.11.1950	ma perkins (4456)	+ Program #4456. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Shuffle says that since there's no evidence against Sylvester...
09.08.1950	ma perkins (4455)	+ Program #4455. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Ma tells Shuffle she suspects something is wrong and he says ...
09.07.1950	ma perkins (4454) ma confronts the cousins	+ Program #4454. Sponsored by: Oxydol. Ma asks Evie and Willie if they gave their life savings to Sy...

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The serial set in the town of Rushville Center where Ma operated a lumberyard. It was first broadcast as a local show on WLW-Cincinnati, Ohio beginning August 14,1933. After three months, Proctor and Gamble bought the show and moved it to Chicago where it was broadcast on the full NBC Radio Network coast to coast beginning December 4, 1933. The program was on the air for twenty-seven years for a total of 7,065 episodes. The program was also sold to CBS in 1942, then for six years it was broadcast on NBC and CBS. It was broadcast at 1:15 pm on CBS and 3:15 pm on NBC. Starting in 1948, the program was heard only on CBS where it ended on November 25, 1960 (Thanksgiving Day). The series was always sponsored by Oxydol. Virginia Payne, who played Ma was 23 years old when she began the role, and she never missed performing in any of the 7,065 programs broadcast.

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