On This Day, August 23: Nick Carter and Johnny Horton
Also featured: Bing Crosby.
August 23 Exhaustive Update
This report documents the comprehensive provenance, broadcast scheduling, commercial sponsorship, credited cast, production personnel, alternate circulating titles, and story synopses for historical broadcasts transmitting on August 23 across American network and regional broadcasting history (1943–1962):
1. Broadcasts
| Title | Network, Airdate & Showtime | Sponsor & Commercial Ads | Credited Cast & Performers | Director, Writers & Crew | Genres | Story-First Plot Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Photogenic Ice for Sonja Henie (Bing Crosby & Buddy Cole Trio)" | CBS (WCBS) 1962-08-23 10:35 AM EDT |
Sustaining CBS Radio Music Presentation |
Bing Crosby, The Buddy Cole Trio | Bill Morrow (Producer), Ken Carpenter (Announcer) | ["Music", "Easy Listening", "Vocal", "Comedy", "Hollywood"] |
Bing Crosby recounts a delightful behind-the-scenes Hollywood yarn about studio technicians striving to create photogenic ice for an Olympic champion Sonja Henie motion picture, followed by warm crooning accompanied by Buddy Cole. |
| "Johnny Horton Live: Rock Island Line (Louisiana Hayride — KWKH)" | KWKH / CBS 1958-08-23 8:00 PM CST |
Southern Maid Southern Maid Donuts & Snuff |
Johnny Horton, The Four B's, Frank Page (MC) | Horace Logan (Producer), Live from Shreveport Auditorium | ["Country", "Rockabilly", "Music", "Live", "Western"] |
Honky-tonk and rockabilly star Johnny Horton electrifies the capacity crowd at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium with a fiery live performance of 'Rock Island Line' and 'Honky-Tonk Man' on the Louisiana Hayride. |
| "The Mystery of Dead Man's Reef (Starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter)" | Mutual (WOR) 1943-08-23 7:00 PM EWT |
Street & Smith Street & Smith Detective Pulp |
Lon Clark (Nick Carter), Helen Choate (Patsy Bowen) | Ferrin N. Fraser (Writer), Jock MacGregor, Michael Fitzmaurice | ["Detective", "Hardboiled", "Mystery", "Crime", "Pulp"] |
Master detective Nick Carter and quick-witted assistant Patsy Bowen travel to the rugged Maine coast to investigate a series of mysterious shipwrecks lured to destruction on Dead Man's Reef by modern-day land pirates. |
| "The Twilight Terror (Part 3) — Starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter" | Mutual (WOR) 1944-08-23 7:00 PM EWT |
Street & Smith Street & Smith Mystery Pulp |
Lon Clark (Nick Carter), Charlotte Manson, Ed Latimer | Ferrin N. Fraser (Writer), Jock MacGregor, Michael Fitzmaurice | ["Detective", "Hardboiled", "Mystery", "Crime", "Pulp"] |
In the thrilling third chapter of the serial mystery, Nick Carter and Patsy Bowen track the elusive masked criminal mastermind known as The Twilight Terror to an abandoned subway tunnel, racing to stop a catastrophic explosion under the city streets. |
| "The Case of the Would-Be Ghost (Old Dutch Cleanser)" | Mutual (WOR) 1953-08-23 6:00 PM EDT |
Cudahy Packing Co. Old Dutch Cleanser & Delrich |
Lon Clark (Nick Carter), Charlotte Manson, John Kane | Ferrin N. Fraser (Writer), Jock MacGregor, John Rust | ["Detective", "Hardboiled", "Mystery", "Crime", "Pulp"] |
Nick Carter and Patsy Bowen investigate supernatural sightings in an old Hudson Valley manor where an heir claims to be haunted by his ancestor's vengeful ghost, uncovering a cynical plot to drive the heir into an insane asylum. |
| "Suspense [Preempted for CBS Republican National Convention Coverage]" | CBS (WCBS) 1956-08-23 8:00 PM EDT |
CBS News Special Live Convention Coverage |
Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Eric Sevareid | CBS News Bureau, Live from Cow Palace, San Francisco | ["Mystery", "Suspense", "News", "Historical", "Docudrama"] |
The scheduled CBS Radio mystery dramatization is preempted for live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the 1956 Republican National Convention from the Cow Palace in San Francisco as President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon accept renomination. |