WOC Catalog: Wolfner Owned Cassettes
Classic Radio Plays, Dramatizations and Other Special Items
(Updated September 2004)
Potpourri
Al Jolson.
WOC 501.
Four broadcasts from the Kraft Music Hall starring Al Jolson and co-starring pianist Oscar Levant. Special guests are Bing Crosby, Judy Garland and Jimmy Durante. Also includes an episode where Jolson turns up the house lights and takes musical requests from the audience.
Baby Snooks.
WOC 512.
Five classic broadcasts of Baby Snooks starring Fanny Brice. Includes: The Used Car, Charity Auction, The Violin, School Test, and Thanksgiving.
Benjamin Franklin, Citizen.
WOC 206.
A one man performance starring Fredd Wayne. Ben Franklin was a Founding Father of the United States, a world citizen, philosopher, author, and scientist. The play portrays Franklin's life in Philadelphia and Paris, showing Ben to be a man of intelligence, humor, and some regrets.
Best of Old Time Radio.
Series Code: BOTR.
The Smithsonian Institution and Radio Spirits joined forces to produce this spectacular collection of the brightest stars of radio theater in some of their most famous episodes.
| Alfred Hitchcock | WOC 369 | |
| Burns and Allen | WOC 493 | |
| Humphrey Bogart | WOC 462 | |
| Jack Benny | WOC 368 | |
| Jimmy Stewart | WOC 467 | |
| Lucille Ball | WOC 367 | |
| Orson Welles | WOC 414 |
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neal Simon.
WOC 125.
Neil Simon's darkly funny memoir of his struggling family in 1930s Brooklyn is viewed through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Eugene Jerome, who is equally occupied with love for the Yankees and lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene's comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family, including poverty, illness, and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe.
Command Performance.
WOC 534.
Produced by the Armed Froces Radio Service during and just after World War 2, this all star series of programs featured the greatest stars of stage, screen and radio. This collection includes: Dick Tracy in B Flat, Judy's New Picture, and Frankie and the Kids.
Cross-fire: A Vietnam Novel by Gail Graham.
WOC 6093.
Lost from his patrol, a young American soldier is horrified when he meets the only survivors of a raid, four Vietnamese children who hate all Americans. A realistic picture of war.
Dinotopia.
WOC 470.
Close your eyes, open your imagination, and be transported to Dinotopia, the only place in the world where dinosaurs and humans live side by side. Based on the book by James Gurney, adapted by Thomas Lopez.
Genius of Orson Welles.
WOC 270.
Seventeen radio programs featuring Orson Welles. Includes: The Cavalcade of America; Information Please; The Jack Benny Program (with Orson Welles substituting for Jack Benny); The Rudy Vallee Program; The Mercury Theatre on the Air; Orson Welles Almanac; The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre; Suspense; and War Bond Show.
Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter Goodchild.
WOC 126.
The Scopes Trial, over the right to teach evolution in public schools, revealed the importance of intellectual freedom, as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. The trial, in a small town Tennessee courtroom in 1925, set the stage for the ongoing national debate over freedom of inquiry and the separation of Church and State in a democratic society.
The Honor Girl by Grace Livingston Hill.
WOC 475.
Seeing a woman is influence in very much needed in her father and brothers' household, Elsie leaves the comfortable home of her wealthy uncle where she has lived for the five years since her mother's death.
Ken Starr Report by Ken Starr.
WOC 184.
This is a recording of the report on President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky compiled by Ken Starr and the Office of Independent Counsel.
Louis Braille and the Baker's Daughter.
WOC 181.
A bittersweet drama about the man who opened the world of reading to the blind by developing a touch-based reading system. A production of the Blue Ridge Radio Players.
Missouri 's Masterpieces by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
WOC 180.
This is a guide to Missouri State Parks and State Historic Sites.
Molly O': A Love Story by Hendrick Booraem.
WOC 33.
In the early 1900s, sixteen-year-old Molly is a singing star on Broadway. She is wooed and won by a Kentucky millionaire who goes broke in the Crash of 1929. Can she make a comeback? A dramatization by the Blue Ridge Radio Players.
Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting by Ed Schmidt.
WOC 127.
On a spring day in 1947 Mr. Rickey, the wily and powerful general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, summons heavyweight champ Joe Louis, tap star Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and actor Paul Robeson to his hotel room in midtown Manhattan. Rickey wants their support when he signs Jackie Robinson to be the Major Leagues' first black ballplayer. But a power struggle ensues when Robinson raises questions about Rickey's plans to integrate baseball.
Night Mother by Marsha Norman.
WOC 128.
This Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play is the sad and powerful story of an epileptic woman in her early forties. An intensely personal, startling, and revealing play about a mother and daughter and a child's struggle to choose her own path.
Old Time Radio All Time Favorites.
WOC 400.
Includes selected episodes from: The Lone Ranger, Suspense, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Jack Benny Program, The Burns and Allen Show, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show, Screen Director's Playhouse, Dimension X, Escape!, The Life of Riley, The Whistler, and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.
Old Time Radio Favorites.
WOC 394.
Hear your old time radio favorites with this variety pack of fun including adventures, comedies, detectives, dramas, horrors, mysteries and westerns.
Old Time Radio's Greatest Shows.
Series Code: OTRS.
A wide variety of vintage radio episodes, selected by Radio Spirits, Inc.
| Old Time Radio's Greatest Shows: Volume 1 | WOC 419 | |
| Old Time Radio's Greatest Shows: Volume 2 | WOC 420 | |
| Old Time Radio's Greatest Shows: Volume 3 | WOC 421 | |
| Old Time Radio's Greatest Shows: Volume 4 | WOC 422 |
Park Your Car in Harvard Yard by Israel Horovitz.
WOC 124.
Jacob Brackish, the toughest and meanest teacher to ever set foot in Gloucester High School, is dying at home. His advertisement for a housekeeper to look after him is answered by a mousy forty-year-old named Kathleen. A woman Jacob has forgotten he flunked years before.
Radio Favorites: Volume 1.
WOC 314.
Old time radio shows including nine hours of vintage programs on six audiocassettes. Programs include favorites such as Amos 'N' Andy, Tom Mix, Unsolved Mysteries, and Have Gun Will Travel.
Radio's Famous Firsts.
WOC 511.
Includes Canada Dry Program starring Jack Benny in his first appearance on the air in a program of his own and the premiere episodes of Fibber McGee and Molly, Great Gildersleeve and Suspense.
Radio's Famous Lasts.
WOC 504.
Includes the final broadcasts of four of the most popular radio series of all times: Charlie McCarthy Show, Fred Allen Show, Fibber McGee and Molly, and the Jack Benny Program.
Row for Your Lives by Hendrik Booraem.
WOC 150.
The Johnstown Flood of 1889 was one of America's great tragedies in which 2,200 people lost their lives. This fictional "might have happened" story centers around a baby in a remarkable cradle that floats. A touching tale based on fact. A production of the Blue Ridge Radio Players.
Sidney Cart by Charles Dickens.
WOC 289.
Based on Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Against the horrendous panorama of the French Revolution, Sidney Carton and his mirror image, Charles Darnay, play out a drama of love, hate, and supreme sacrifice. A production of the Blue Ridge Radio Players.
Three Strikes and You're Out by Vernon Delston.
WOC 41.
A piano tuner in Brooklyn, his baseball club's best pitcher, meets his fate in the park. She is young and determined to get married to him! A dramatization by the Blue Ridge Radio Players.
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas.
WOC 93.
This is the only recording every made with Thomas in the cast, and was captured by chance when someone placed a tape recorder on the stage for this live performance. Thomas serves as narrator of this tale of a day in the lives of 53 characters in a small Welsh village.
You Are There.
WOC 539.
This show recreates historic events using the style of contemporary news reporting and featuring familiar voices of CBS news reporters and correspondents. Episodes include: Admiral Peary Reaches the North Pole, Philadelphia State House, and Surrender of Sitting Bull.