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Family Theater is a weekly half-hour dramatic anthology radio program which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States from February 13, 1947, to September 11, 1957. A total of 482 original episodes were produced. The program featured not only religious stories, but also half-hour adaptations of literary works such as A Tale of Two Cities, Moby-Dick, and Don Quixote.

Peyton and Family Theater Productions continued in radio and expanded into films and television. Peyton arranged for many of Hollywood's stars in film and radio at the time to appear on Family Theater. Throughout its ten-year run, well-known actors and actresses, including James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Dennis Morgan, Dorothy Warenskjold, Irene Dunne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, Natalie Wood, Barbara Whiting, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, Kate Smith, William Shatner, and Chuck Connors, appeared as announcers, narrators, or stars. Many donated their services.

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Episode numbers do not correlate with the podcast episode number but rather is a way for us to organize the episodes and give us a better sense of what episodes we are missing.
* - Original air dates are accurate to the best of our ability and rely on external sources (including but not limited to) RadioGOLDINdex, OTRRpedia, On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning and Old-Time Radio Researchers. Episode numbers is for organizational purposes only since they were made up by hobbyists and not actually from the networks.