The Terry Bonadonna Show: Recent Episodes
Terry Bonadonna
The Terry Bonadonna Show features Old Time Radio (OTR) programming from the Golden Age of radio. From 2007 to 2010, and occasionally thereafter, it aired Friday nights, 9:00 pm-midnight, on WXAV, 88.3 FM, the college radio station of Saint Xavier University in Chicago. The show features several genres: comedy starring radio greats like Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Jim and Marian Jordan (Fibber McGee and Molly), Bob and Ray, Burns and Allen; mystery programs (Suspense, The Whistler, I Love a Mystery); detective programs (The Shadow; Dragnet; Casey, Crime Photographer); westerns (The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, Roy Rogers); science fiction (Dimension X); quiz shows (Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, You Bet Your Life); sports; drama; history; and so on. The program first aired on September 14, 2007, and that episode (minus the opening greeting, unfortunately) and most of the program's episodes are gathered here. Each show is roughly three hours in length. With the assistance of his guest bandleader (e.g., Benny Goodman, Glen Miller), host Terry Bonadonna guides listeners through a weekly tour of five or six programs he has chosen from the archives of radio's Golden Age.
The 2022 Christmas Show, hosted by Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
The 2021 Christmas Show, hosted by Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
The 2019 Christmas Show, hosted by Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
The 2018 Christmas Show, hosted by Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
The 2017 Christmas Show, hosted by Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
The 2016 Christmas Show, hosted by Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
The 2015 Christmas Show, hosted by Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
The 2014 Christmas Show, hosted by Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
The 2013 Christmas Show, hosted by Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
The 2011 Christmas Show, hosted by Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
The 2010 Christmas Show, a special reprise episode by host Terry Bonadonna, with guests Nicholas Vastis and Angelo Bonadonna
Jack Benny; Fred Allen; Green Hornet; The Shadow; The Adventures of Babe Ruth; You Bet Your Life
Fibber McGee and Molly; Ozzie and Harriet; Nick Carter, Master Detective; Amos and Andy; Abbot and Costello
Adventures of Babe Ruth; LIfe of Riley; Gunsmoke; Broadway Is My Beat; Vic and Sade; You Bet Your Life
Stan Freberg; The Bickersons; Casey, Crime Photographer; The Shadow; The Aldrich Family; Fibber McGee and Molly
The Jack Benny Birthday Special: Jack Benny; Halls of Ivy; Bill Stern Sports Newsreel; Suspense; Fred Allen; Jack Benny
Rogue's Gallery; Mark Trail; Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy; Jimmy Durante; The Whistler
Escape; Fibber McGee and Molly; Have Gun Will Travel; Results Incorporated; Dimension X
Nick Carter, Master Detective; Michael Shayne; Suspense; Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge; You Bet Your Life
Old Gold Comedy Theatre; Columbia Workshop; Hallmark Playhouse; Origin of Superstition; Jack Benny
Lum and Abner; Fred Allen; Six Shooter; Roy Rogers; Meet Corliss Archer; Couple Next Door
The 2009 Christmas Episode, featuring guest star Nicholas Vastis, and the programs The Great Gildersleeve; Fibber McGee and Molly; This Is My Best; Jack Benny
The Aldrich Family; The Halls of Ivy; Vic and Sade; Jonathan Thomas and His Christmas on the Moon; The Clock
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons; I Love a Mystery; X Minus One; Bob Hope; Burns and Allen
Fibber McGee and Molly; The Great Gildersleeve; I Love a Mystery; The Whistler; I Love a Mystery; Theater of Romance
The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show; The Adventures of Babe Ruth; I Love a Mystery; The Saint; A Day in the Life of Dennis Day; The Life of Riley
Box 13; I Love a Mystery; The Hardy Family; A Date with Judy; I Love a Mystery; Casey, Crime Photographer
I Love a Mystery; The Green Hornet; Vic and Sade; The Jack Webb Show; Philco Radio Time; I Love a Mystery; Mystery Is My Hobby
I Love Adventure; I Love a Mystery; Fred Allen; Truth or Consequences; You Bet Your Life
Jack Benny, Stan Freberg, Origin of Superstition, Suspense, Cavalcade of America, The Aldrich Family
The Great Gildersleeve, The Avenger, Mel Blanc, Inner Sanctum, CBS Radio Workshop, Old Gold Theater
NIck Carter, Master Detective; Escape; The Whistler; Fred Allen; The Great Gildersleeve
The Adventures of Babe Ruth, Bob and Ray, The Eddie Cantor Show, Screen Guild Theater, Information Please
The Thin Man; Casey, Crime Photographer; Our Miss Brooks; The Aldrich Family; Fibber McGee and Molly
Arch Oboler's Plays, Hollywood Players, Burns and Allen, Burns and Allen, Movie Scores, Screen Director's Playhouse
The Green Hornet, Superman, Captain Midnight, Suspense, The Life of Riley, You Bet Your Life
Superman, Diary of Fate, Superman, Grand Central Station, Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly
Vic and Sade, Lum and Abner, A Date for Judy, Superman, The Couple Next Door, Escape, The Whistler
Superman; Maisie; Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator; Dragnet; Superman; Duffy's Tavern
The 2008 Christmas Episode, featuring guest star Nicholas Vastis, and the programs: Casey, Crime Photographer: Jack Benny; Stan Freberg; Suspense; Fibber McGee and Molly
Archie Andrews, Ozzie and Harriet, Cinnamon Bear, Damon Runyon Theater, Casebook of Gregory Hood, Johnny Madero: Pier 23
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy; Rogue's Gallery; Casey, Crime Photographer; Lux Radio Theater
Program Dedicated to Orson Welles: The Third Man, Suspense, Jack Benny, Mercury Theatre
The Great Gildersleeve, Hardy Family, Flash Gordon, Mark Trail, Life with Luigi, The Adventures of Topper
Aldrich Family, Jack Benny, The Shadow, Suspense, Fibber McGee and Molly, Adventures of Babe Ruth
ABC Mystery Theatre, Adventures of Sam Spade, Martin and Lewis, A Day in the Life of Dennis Day, The Shadow
Casey, Crime Photographer; The Whistler; Charlie McCarthy; Burns and Allen; Big Town; Adventures of Babe Ruth
Halls of Ivy, Fibber McGee and Molly, Origin of Superstition, Escape, Fred Allen, Jack Benny
The 2007 Christmas Episode, featuring guest star Nicholas Vastis, and the programs: The Aldrich Family, The Shadow, Fibber McGee and Molly, Jack Benny
Casey, Crime Photographer; Nero Wolfe; Fred Allen; The Great Gildersleeve; Curtain Time
FDR, Mr. President, Fibber McGee and Molly, Jack Benny; Bob and Ray; Abbott and Costello
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; Green Hornet; Origin of Superstition; The Whistler; It Pays to Be Ignorant; The Aldrich Family
The Whistler, The Shadow, Origin of Superstition, Philco Radio Time with Bing Crosby, Suspense (Parts I and II of "Donovan's Brain")
Jack Benny, Fred Allen, The Green Hornet, The Shadow, The Adventures of Babe Ruth, You Bet Your Life