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Family Theater |
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By: Kerry Date: August 19, 2015, 5:04 pm |
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Have you ever heard any of the Family Theater episodes? They |
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were put together by the Catholic Church, but they don't push |
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Catholicism. Wikipedia |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Theater |
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describes it: |
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The show was produced by Family Theater Productions, a film and |
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radio studio extension of the Family Rosary Crusade founded by |
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the Holy Cross Priest, Father Patrick Peyton, CSC, as a way to |
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promote family prayer. The motto of Holy Cross Family Ministries |
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is "The family that prays together, stays together." |
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The program had no commercial sponsor, yet Father Peyton, CSC |
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arranged for many of Hollywood's stars in film and radio at the |
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time to appear. In its ten-year run, well-known actors and |
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actresses, including James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Irene Dunne, |
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Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Shirley |
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Temple, Barbara Whiting Smith, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, |
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Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene |
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Kelly, Kate Smith, William Shatner and Chuck Connors, appeared |
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as announcers, narrators or stars. |
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A total of 540 episodes were produced. The program featured not |
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only religious stories but half-hour adaptations of literary |
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works such as A Tale of Two Cities, Moby-Dick and Don Quixote. |
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Re: Family Theater |
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By: Kerry Date: August 19, 2015, 5:07 pm |
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I can't find all the episodes at You Tube; but I found audio |
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links. If you want to listen while doing something else, you |
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can right click on the link and choose the open in another tab |
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option. I heard these episodes today. Each is about thirty |
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minutes. |
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Jamie and the Promise |
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http://zootradio.com/uploads/Family_Theater/480819_Jamie_And_The_Promis.mp3 |
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Uncle Jim |
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http://zootradio.com/uploads/Family_Theater/530819_UNCLE_JIM.mp3 |
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Re: Family Theater |
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By: Helen Date: August 19, 2015, 5:33 pm |
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Sounds good...I check out half of one of them. I used to listen |
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to " Afternoon Theater" when a young wife, mending clothes or |
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doing the ironing. Loved it. |
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I check Amazon to see if they have the TV series of Family |
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Theater on DVD, but they don't. |
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Re: Family Theater |
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By: Kerry Date: August 19, 2015, 5:57 pm |
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People here in the US talk a lot about family values but it's |
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often a code word for something else. I think I like these |
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Family Theater shows because they really are about family values |
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-- the kind I can understand. |
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Re: Family Theater |
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By: Kerry Date: August 21, 2015, 4:39 pm |
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I just heard another episode. I'd heard it before but I |
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listened again. Fred MacMurray introduces the story; and Robert |
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Young stars. This one is not a happy one. It has some strong |
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lessons. Valuing things more than people, slipshod parenting, |
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the results of gossip, and how we sometimes regret things and |
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wish we could change them but can't. |
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The Tin Whistle |
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http://www.zootradio.com/uploads/Family_Theater/470821_The_Tin_Whistle.mp3 |
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