Episodes

Friday Sep 18, 2009
Guest Star - Pgm 272
Friday Sep 18, 2009
Friday Sep 18, 2009
Don't have time for a full, hour-long drama? Well, try "Guest Star", a quarter-hour public Treasury Department service program promoting US Savings Bonds. This long-running series usually featured musical performances, but many consisted of comedy or drama, such as program 272 in the series, distributed for broadcast June 8, 1952.

Friday Jun 26, 2009
Stars for Defense - OPS Series - Pgm 3
Friday Jun 26, 2009
Friday Jun 26, 2009
Well, here's some swinging music for you hep cats out there. In episode 3 of the Office of Price Stabilization series "Stars for Defense", we hear guest Dick Haymes with Four Hits and a Miss backed by Sonny Burke and his Orchestra.
In between the reminders on how you can control inflation as we fight the Korean War, Haymes sings "I Want to Be Happy", his latest record "No Other Love But Yours", and "September Song".
Transferred from original Allied Record vinyl transcription; matrix number D-88803. Many thanks to Michael Utz for donating this transcription to the collection.

Friday Jun 12, 2009
Stars for Defense (OPS Series) - Pgm 2
Friday Jun 12, 2009
Friday Jun 12, 2009
A couple of weeks back, we started a new public service series on the blog, "Stars for Defense". There were two series with that title, one for Civil Defense and this one, for the Office of Price Stabilization, designed to inform consumers on what they could do to fight inflation during the Korean War.

Saturday May 30, 2009
Stars for Defense - OPS Series - Pgm 1
Saturday May 30, 2009
Saturday May 30, 2009
Let's pause for some music and information about how you can help the economy. Here's program 1 in the series "Stars for Defense", dating from the early 1950s. There were two government series with this title; one produced for the Civil Defense Administration and the other shilling for the Office of Price Stabilization and our show comes from the OPS series.