My g/f surprised me and sent a two volume set from Old Time Radio's website. I can't wait to start listening, but I have others lined up first--on the second volume of Father Knows Best and then 2 discs of The Aldrich Family. But I will get to them and then post reviews here as well :)

Cool man :)

It's like a whole other world! We have all this stuff and most people are not aware of it!

That's great I know you will enjoy them!

I have downloaded from the internet like 75 different O&H radio episodes and I love listening to them. A lot of times I will turn them on at night and listen to them as I fall asleep. Or I'll play them on my computer while I'm playing soliltaire or just surfing around.

I really enjoy listening to them. I love hearing Ricky on them with his little voice. Most of the ones I have seem to be the kid actors but theirs some with Dave and Ricky. And it just seems so bizzar Ozzie and Harriet with little kids. The tv series it was a preteen 12 yr old Ricky at the beginning, so it was mainly O&H with teenagers and young adults. Now it's going back further and here's O&H with a 6 year old. Harriet referring to Ozzie as 'Daddy' to boys.

I also like listening to the radio show scripts that later became tv show scripts. The one where Ozzie doesn't know the name of the man they are suppose to go have dinner with, I swear it's the same actor playing the role of the man who invites him to dinner.

I do miss Don Defore as Thorny. The radio Throny isn't bad, it's just that Don Defore seemed to have more of a lighter more natural feel as Ozzie's best pal. Radio Thorny seems to old.

I enjoy listening to my radio show CDs in my car while driving to and from work, while on breaks and lunch hours....I'm so tired of the limited variety of music stations, so this is a wonderful and enjoyable alternative!

A lot of times I will turn them on at night and listen to them as I fall asleep.

What IS it about this show that has that calming effect on us? I fall asleep all the time when I'm watching it on TV!

It's like chicken soup. It's comforting and familiar.

What IS it about this show that has that calming effect on us? I fall asleep all the time when I'm watching it on TV!

It's like chicken soup. It's comforting and familiar.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that finds this show comforting. I've recently pulled out my DVD's and started watching the early episodes in bed before I fall asleep. These shows just have a calming effect on me right now.:)

Maybe it's the fact that it is classic, purespun American family humor that takes everyday situations and makes them funny as all get out and we can trust that we won't be violated with it. Can't say that about such stuff like Two and a Half Men.

I use to listen the radio series a lot before the SHOUT! and Mill Creek box sets were released. I started listening to the radio episodes because I got bored watching the dollar store DVDs over and over.

Right, every day things made funny and no blood, bullets, or violence. Well, a little violence when Ginger gets after Wally.:lol:

"Don't you sweetie pie, me!!" and off she goes with the frying pan!

:brent

"Don't you sweetie pie, me!!" and off she goes with the frying pan!

:brent

And who can blame her! Wally has that effect on people! Remember how mad Jack got at him when he asked for a raise on the 2nd day?

Back on topic, the radio set must be a blast. Enjoy!

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that finds this show comforting. I've recently pulled out my DVD's and started watching the early episodes in bed before I fall asleep. These shows just have a calming effect on me right now.:)


I find the show very calming and enjoyable too! Esp some of the eps in the Mill Creek and later SHOUT! set.

I'll let you know when I get around to it.....I have Father Knows Best to finish and then start on The Aldrich Family, before getting to O&H. So it may be awhile :lol:

finally started and listened to 2 episodes so far......the boys (or the characters rather of David and Ricky) were not in either. There is Gloria the maid, who didn't make the cut to TV. There is some singing from Ozzie and Harriet; Ozzie here is a bandleader (so for radio, he had a job LOL) Harriet is referred to as Harriet Hillard, even though she is married to Ozzie. So far, the style isn't quite the same as the TV version, but it is fun to listen to them.

I have some of the Fathers Knows Best, Ozzie and Harriet, and a lot of the Abbott and Costello radio shows. Really great to listen to.

The radio shows during the war years are especially interesting.

Those are the ones the CD set has started off with.....in one, Ozzie thinks Harriet is expecting another baby! (something I don't recall being tackled on the TV show?) David(the character, not David Nelson himself) here, as an 8 year old sounds like what Ricky, the TV version, did in the early years--a wisecracking precocious kid!

Moving on....Gloria the maid seemed to be a character faded out pretty early on. Teenybopper Emmy Lou was voiced by Janet Waldo (best known for Judy Jetson) and thankfully her character was not brought over to the TV version.

Thorny here is really annoying and not lovable like Don Defore did him.

The sponsor for many years--1847 Roger Bros Silverplate/International Sterling--ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, BORING!

I hope to hear more later years episodes--where Heinz was the sponsor and we hear David and Ricky sounded exactly like the early years of the TV show
"I don't mess around, boy" and "oh yea......yea.......oh yea......yea"

I have The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio shows on an MP3 two disc set. I enjoy listening to the shows. I wish there were more existing shows than there are. Mabye someday lost shows will be found.

Moving on....Gloria the maid seemed to be a character faded out pretty early on. Teenybopper Emmy Lou was voiced by Janet Waldo (best known for Judy Jetson) and thankfully her character was not brought over to the TV version.

Thorny here is really annoying and not lovable like Don Defore did him.

The sponsor for many years--1847 Roger Bros Silverplate/International Sterling--ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, BORING!

I hope to hear more later years episodes--where Heinz was the sponsor and we hear David and Ricky sounded exactly like the early years of the TV show
"I don't mess around, boy" and "oh yea......yea.......oh yea......yea"

Emmy Lou was brought over to the tv version. She, Janet Waldo, can be seen in quite a few of the first season epiosdes. I think she was dropped by the second season as was the narrator.
Usually Emmy Lou would show up for a couple minutes do one of her screeches and leave.

Janet Waldo, continuned to show up on the show all through out the series in various minor roles. Anything from someone at the Woman's Club, Bridge Club, or around town.

One comment on Gloria, a character I didn't think really worked. But I guess the David and Ricky parts were to young to be a bigger presence at the time.

Anyway she was played by Bea Benaderet. Bea was a voice in a lot of Warner Brothers cartoons, radio shows, and Lucy's choice for Ethel, only Bea was obligated to The Burns and Allen Show and couldn't do it. Though she wasn't Ethel, she was the first Betty Rubble, Jethro's mother in Beverly Hillbillies, and the star Petticoat Junction.

I thought Gloria was funny in her catchphrase "Did you call me, Mrs. Nelson?" :lol:

I don't recall Emmy Lou at all on TV.....not saying she wasn't there,just don't recall her.

I thought Gloria was funny in her catchphrase "Did you call me, Mrs. Nelson?" :lol:

I don't recall Emmy Lou at all on TV.....not saying she wasn't there,just don't recall her.

I've only seen Emmy Lou in a few episodes. And it's usually just a quick scene. She seemed to fade away pretty quick. I always thought it was kinda odd, her character. She was usually talking with Ozzie, so it was like, why is Ozzie always hanging around and talking with this teenage girl.