Lux Radio Theater: It's a Wonderful Life

Lux Radio Theater: It's a Wonderful Life

Originally aired March 3rd, 1947

A suicidal man learns what the world would have been like without him.

Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons, but the show eventually began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s.