Thursday, January 6, 2022

Saturtainment: General Mills Radio Adventure Theater (1977)

 General Mills' Radio Adventure Theater was set up as a weekend companion series to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, both produced by Himan Brown. The General Mills show premiered in February 1977, but the sponsor pulled its support after 26 weeks, forcing the change to CBS Radio Adventure Theater before it was inevitably cancelled.

Tom Bosley (Happy Days) is the series host, and queues up an adaptation of Jules Verne's oft-adapted Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea:


Rating: B--.

1 comment:

Scoobyfan1 said...

Not bad...

I'm kind of surprised that CBS Radio didn't have the series on stations on either Saturday mornings or afternoons back then... would have been a good either companion to, or following their Saturday morning lineup over on their TV network.