{
  "title": "DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "Shortly after its run on KPO, Hal Burdick recorded his series for the MacGregor-Solie\ntranscription company, based in San Francisco.\n[Broadcasting, January 15, 1934] “Twenty-six recordings of ‘Do You Believe in Ghosts?’ by and\nwith Harold Burdick have been cut by the MacGregor and Sollie laboratories, San Francisco, for\ngeneral release. The ghost series was previously on NBC for 13 weeks under the sponsorship of S.\n& W., food products.”\n[San Francisco Examiner, December 16, 1934—“New Series on Wax Network”] “A new series of\nthe popular radio feature, ‘Do You Believe in Ghosts?,’ is now being heard over the MacGregor\nand Sollie Broadcasting System.\n“Hailed by radio critics in all parts of the West as one of the most awe-inspiring series of stories,\nthis feature is proving one of the most fascinating to hit the air lanes for many moons.\n“Unusual tales of the occult, the weird, the supernatural, are incorporated in this broadcast, and\nthey are told with great realism. The narrator is a consummate artist—a story teller par\nexcellence. He holds his audience in the palm of his hand. And he can send shivers running up\nand down the spine of the most hardened skeptic.\n“‘Do You Believe in Ghosts?’ is broadcast in fifteen-minute episodes, each episode a complete\nstory.\n“This is but one of the many popular features for broadcasting which is now being produced in\nthe MacGregor and Sollie studios in San Francisco for release over its broadcasting system, the\nprincipal portion of which is in the Pacific Northwest.\n“Among the radio broadcasting stations affiliated with the MacGregor and Sollie Broadcasting\nSystem are the following:\n“KMED, Medford. Ore.; KORE, Eugene, Ore.; KIDO, Boise, Ida.; KLZ, Denver, Colo.; KGHF,\nPueblo, Colo.; KDFN, Casper, Wyo.; KGDM, Stockton, Calif.; KID, Idaho Falls, Ida.; KHFI, Twin\nFalls, Ida.; KFJI, Klamath Falls, Ore.; KIEM, Eureka, Calif.; KVOS, Bellingham, Wash.; KUJ,\nWalla Walla, Wash.; KPQ, Wenatchee, Wash.; KFBB, Great Falls, Mont.; KGHL, Billings, Mont.”\n[Broadcasting, February 1, 1935—“Transcriptions”] “A new series of Do You Believe in Ghosts?,\nproduced by MacGregor & Sollie Inc., San Francisco, has been released. The serial is broadcast in\n15-minute episodes, each a complete story in itself.”",
  "origination": "MacGregor-Sollie, San Francisco, California (electrical transcriptions).",
  "duration": "The transcriptions were released in 1934 (first series) and 1935 (second series). They were\nbroadcast on KOB, Albuquerque (1934-1935), WRJN,Racine (1935), ?, Bakersfield (1935), KFOX, Long\nBeach (1935), 2HD, Newcastle (1935), 4BK, Brisbane (1936), KRGV, Westlaco (1937), WWSW, Philadelphia\n(1937), etc.\nW6XAI, Bakersfield? (1935—\nSeptember 26, 1935: Thursday—9:15-9:30; November 1, 1935; Friday—8:45-9:00; also ran The Hawk,\nFlash Gordon, Kern County Union Label League. November 8:same. December 13, 1935: Friday—8:45-9:00.\nDecember 17, 1935: Tuesday—8:45-9:00.",
  "personnel": "Harold P. Burdick (scriptwriter, producer, narrator, voice of “The Ghost Adventurer”).\nSPONSOR: Sussman and Wormser Company (S&W Food Products).",
  "extant_recordings": "Episodes 3 and 4 (according to Jerry Austin, cited in Hickerson).\n[PROGRAM LOG]\nDO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? (DISC SERIES ON KOB, ALBUQUERQUE)\n[Friday—8:15-8:30 PM]\nOctober 19, 1934\nOctober 26, 1934\nNovember 16, 1934\nNovember 23, 1934\nDecember 7, 1934\nDecember 14, 1934\nDecember 21, 1934\nDecember 28, 1934\nJanuary 4, 1935\nDO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? (DISC SERIES ON KFOX, LONG BEACH)\n[Saturday—7:30-8:00 PM]\n[OG-NOTE: KFOX presented the show in a half-hour time slot, so presumably they ran two episodes on each\nbroadcast.]\nAugust 10, 1935\nAugust 17, 1935\nAugust 24, 1935\nNA\nAugust 31, 1935\nSeptember 14, 1935\nSeptember 21, 1935\nSeptember 28, 1935\nOctober 5, 1935\nOctober 12, 1935\nOctober 19, 1935\nOctober 26, 1935\nNovember 2, 1935\nNovember 9, 1935\nDO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? (DISC SERIES ON WSIX, NASHVILLE)\n[Monday-Wednesday-Friday—7:30-7:45 PM]\nJanuary 18, 1937\n[1]\n[NASHVILLE BANNER: “…George [sic] Burdick, narrator, begins a tri-\nweekly series of ghost story broadcasts… Burdick’s ghost stories are\ncomplete in each broadcast…”]\nJanuary 20, 1937\n[2]\nJanuary 22, 1937\n[3]\nJanuary 25, 1937\n[4] “Eyes of Jade”\n[NASHVILLE BANNER: “…A ghost story of the Orient…will be told by\nHarold Burdick…”]\nJanuary 27, 1937\n[5] “Silver Demon”\nJanuary 29, 1937\n[6] “Shadows”",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}