| The Birds | | 1938-02-26 | Before the play, the description of the Greek theatre at showtime is fascinating. |
| The Great Magician | | 1938-03-12 | A commedia dell'arte play. |
| Tamerlane | | 1938-03-19 | A visit-by-radio to the Globe Theatre in London, during the 16th century. |
| The School for Husbands | | 1938-04-02 | The play was first performed in 1661. |
| Love for Love | | 1938-04-09 | The play was first performed in 1695. This adaptation includes portions of another Congreve play, "The Way Of The World." |
| The School for Scandal | | 1938-04-16 | The play was first presented in 1777, at the Drury Lane Theatre, London. |
| The Silver King | | 1938-04-23 | A melodrama first performed in the 1882, at the Princess Theatre in London. Arthur Wallach is mentioned as listening today; the only living founder of the Lambs Club. Mr. Wallach arranged for the New York production of the play in 1883. For his 91st birthday, this performance is dedicated to Mr. Wallach. |
| The Playboy of the Western World | | 1938-04-30 | This folk-comedy was first produced in 1907. |
| Valley Forge | | 1938-05-07 | The last show of the season. The length of the program indicates the program might have been allowed to run over its time period, or may have been a rehearsal. |
| The Trojan Women | | 1938-10-16 | The first show of the second series. A production of the famous anti-war drama, based on the fall of Troy. |
| Everyman | | 1938-10-23 | An anonymous English morality play from 1529. The play was subsequently used on Great Plays on October 29, 1939 (see cat. #90079). |
| The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus | | 1938-11-06 | The play was subsequently heard on Great Plays on December 8, 1940 (see cat. #90087). |
| A Midsummer's Night's Dream | | 1938-11-13 | H. Leopold Spitalny conducts the score by Mendelssohn. |
| Le Cid | | 1938-12-04 | A play written in 1637, set in Spain. The story of a conflict, love, honor and duty. The play was subsequently heard on Great Plays on December 8, 1940 (see cat. #90088). |
| Life Is but a Dream | | 1938-12-11 | A story about a king of Poland who learns that his son will be a rival for the throne. The king imprisons his own son. |
| Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | | 1938-12-18 | Perhaps the first musical comedy, definitely one of the first great French comedies. "The would-be gentleman" aspires to a higher station in life. The program leaves the air until January 8, 1939. |
| She Stoops to Conquer | | 1939-01-08 | "The Godfather" of all mistaken identity comedies. |
| School for Scandal | | 1939-01-15 | Parts two and four only. |
| Mary Stuart | | 1939-01-22 | null |
| Ernani | | 1939-01-29 | The love of a bandit hero and intrigue in the court of Charles V. |
| Richelieu | | 1939-02-05 | Intrigue in the court of Louis XIII, as the wily Cardinal becomes the power behind the throne. The program may be dated February 2, 1939. |
| The Octaroon or Life in Louisiana | | 1939-02-12 | A play written in 1859 about slavery and the South. The play offers highly melodramatic portraits of life before the Civil War. Parker Fennelly appears in an atypical serious role. |
| Redemption | | 1939-02-19 | A very Russian tragedy about a husband who feigns suicide so that his wife can marry her lover, only to "return to life" ten years later, apparently complaining of her bigamy! |
| A Doll's House | | 1939-02-26 | Parts two and four only. |
| Patience | | 1939-03-05 | The famous operetta. |
| Camille (The Lady of the Camelias) | | 1939-03-12 | null |
| Cyrano De Bergerac | | 1939-03-19 | The well-known story of unrequited love by the daring soldier with the very long nose. The script was subsequently used on Great Plays on February 16, 1941 (see cat. #90091). |
| Peter Pan | | 1939-03-26 | An excellent dramatization of the classic fantasy for children and adults as well. |
| The Bluebird | | 1939-04-02 | A delightful fantasy about two children and their search for an elusive bird. |
| Justice | | 1939-04-09 | An interesting courtroom drama about a young clerk convicted of forgery. After three years in prison, he returns to his old job, finally paying his debt to society in a harsh way. |
| Back to Methusaleh | | 1939-04-16 | A fascinating portrait of the Garden Of Eden and the inhabitants therein. The play ends thirty thousand years in the future! The play is adapted for radio by George Bernard Shaw. |
| Oliver Cromwell | | 1939-04-23 | A "contemporary" drama about the famous reformer who led the armed forces of Parliament against the forces of King Charles I, defeated the king's men, and ruled England for five years. |
| The White-Headed Boy | | 1939-04-30 | A play from the Abbey Theatre of Dublin, from 1916. The son of an Irish family has succeeded at nothing. Now, he must immigrate to Canada...and marry Delia! |
| Elizabeth, the Queen | | 1939-05-07 | The turbulent romance of the Queen and Lord Essex. The last show of the season. |
| Antigone | | 1939-10-15 | The first show of the season, the third play of the "Oedipus" trilogy. The play has an unusual dramatized introduction. The last few seconds of the program closing have been deleted. |
| Everyman | | 1939-10-29 | The traditional morality play. The play was previously heart on Great Plays on October 23, 1938 (see cat. #66539). |
| Edward II | | 1939-11-05 | null |
| Romeo and Juliet | | 1939-11-12 | The theatre's most famous love story. |
| Volpone | | 1939-12-03 | null |
| Rip Van Winkle | | 1940-01-28 | A performance of the 1859 drama. |
| Peer Gynt | | 1940-02-11 | null |
| The Second Mrs. Tanqueray | | 1940-03-03 | null |
| Secret Service | | 1940-03-10 | The recording has noticeable noise-gating. |
| Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines | | 1940-03-24 | The 1904 comedy "that introduced a new star, Ethel Barrymore." |
| Liliom | | 1940-04-21 | The drama that was later made into the musical, "Carousel." |
| The Return of Peter Grimm | | 1940-04-28 | The system cue has been deleted. |
| Winterset | | 1940-05-04 | The last show of the season. |
| A Cavalcade of Drama: From Ancient Greece to Modern Broadway | | 1940-10-13 | The first show of the season. A change in format for this program only. Excerpts from many great plays, instead of an adaptation of just one. |
| Doctor Faustus | | 1940-11-03 | A "modernized" version of the play. The play was previously heard on Great Plays on November 6, 1938 (see #83605). |
| The Tempest | | 1940-11-24 | null |
| Le Cid | | 1940-12-08 | The French play of 1637. The script was previously used on the series on December 4, 1938 (see cat. #66359). |
| The Imaginary Invalid | | 1940-12-15 | After the play, Charles Webter stays in character as Moliere to speak of the faith and courage to make Paris a free city again. Well done! The system cue has been deleted. |
| The Second Shepherd's Play and the Wakefield Nativity | | 1940-12-22 | Two of the famous nativity plays of Chester, England. |
| The Thunderbolt | | 1941-02-02 | The first radio performance of the play that was written in 1909. The recording is noticeably noise-gated. Part of the program closing and the system cue have been deleted. |
| Cyrano De Bergerac | | 1941-02-16 | The script was previously used on Great Plays on March 19, 1939 (see cat. #66350). |
| Curtain Calls for the Queen | | 1941-02-23 | "A fantasy on the drama in England during the reign of Queen Victoria." Scenes from, "The Lady Of Lyons," "London Assurance," "Caste," "The Bells," "Pygmalion and Galatea" and "Michael, and His Lost Angel." |
| The Climbers | | 1941-03-02 | null |
| The Well of the Saints | | 1941-03-09 | null |
| The Swan | | 1941-03-16 | null |
| Great Plays | | 1941-03-23 | A review of the the American theatre: 1920 to 1940. "In the last two decades, more good plays were written than in all the 150 years that had gone before." Scenes from, "What Price Glory," "The Show-Off" and "Abe Lincoln In Illinois." |
| Robert E. Lee | | 1941-03-30 | The program has a studio audience. |
| The Beggar on Horseback | | 1941-04-06 | A 1924 comedy based on dreams. |
| The Servant in the House | | 1941-04-13 | A drama in honor of Easter, first heard in 1908. |
| Trelawney of the Wells | | 1941-04-20 | The broadcast has a studio audience. |
| Prologue to Glory | | 1941-05-04 | The play was first produced on Broadway in 1938, as a project of the WPA. The broadcast has a studio audience. The last show of the season. |
| The Inspector General | | 1941-12-07 | Blue Net Pearl Harbor Coverage. Part 1. The program opening has been deleted, coverage starts at about 2:07 P. M. and continues to 3:00 P. M. (all times are Eastern). The first bulletin of the attack is heard about 2:33 P. M. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | | 1941-12-28 | Mr. Clark comments that the play may have represented Shakespeare's relationship to his own wife. |
| Monsieur Poirier's Son-In-Law | | 1942-01-11 | "One of the high points of French comedy." Mr. Clark's scholarship in discussing this program and the others on which he appears, is remarkable and insightful. |
| The Pillars of Society | | 1942-01-25 | The last program of "the first section of this season's plays." |
