Brave Tomorrow

{{Short description|1943-1944 old-time radio soap opera}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox radio show | show_name = Brave Tomorrow | image = | imagesize = | caption = | other_names = | format = | runtime = 15 minutes | country = United States | language = English | home_station = | syndicates = NBC | television = | presenter = | starring = | announcer = | creator = | writer = Ruth Adams Knight | director = | senior_editor = | editor = | producer = | exec_producer = | narrated = | rec_location = | rem_location = | oth_location = | first_aired = October 11, 1943 | last_aired = June 30, 1944 | num_series = | num_episodes = | audio_format = | opentheme = | othertheme = | endtheme = | sponsor = Ivory Snow | website =  | podcast =  }} '''''Brave Tomorrow''''' is an old-time radio soap opera in the United States. It was broadcast on NBC October 11, 1943 – June 30, 1944.<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=John |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow,+soap+opera%22&pg=PA111 |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=111 |edition=Revised |accessdate=2019-08-08}}</ref>

==Format== ''Brave Tomorrow'' focused on Hal and Louise Lambert and the challenges that they faced while raising daughters Jean and Marty during World War II.<ref name=dunningota/> A continuing facet of the drama was the older daughter's marriage to a military man who was in training to serve overseas.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cox|first1=Jim|title=The A to Z of American Radio Soap Operas|date=2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810863491|pages=47–48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQiurxgEDkIC&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow+The+account%22&pg=PA47|accessdate=27 December 2016|language=en}}</ref>

Ivory Snow sponsored the 15-minute program.<ref name=dunningota/>

==Personnel== The characters on ''Brave Tomorrow'' and the actors who portrayed them are shown in the table below. {| class="wikitable" |- ! Character !! Actor |- | Hal Lambert || Raymond Edward Johnson<br>Roger DeKoven |- | Louise Lambert || Jeanette Dowling |- | Jean Lambert || Nancy Douglass<br>Flora Campbell |- | Marty Lambert || Jone Allison<br>Andree Wallace |- | Brad Forbes || Frank Lovejoy |- | Whit Davis || House Jameson |- | Mr. Brink || Percy Hemus<ref name="bb010144">{{cite magazine|title=Five-Way Pickup|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAwEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow%22+radio&pg=PT10|accessdate=27 December 2016|magazine=Billboard|date=January 1, 1944|page=11}}</ref><br>G. Sayne Gordon<ref name=bb010144/> |- | Mrs. Brink || Ethel Wilson<ref name=bb010144/> |- | Phil Barnes || Carl Eastman<ref>{{cite book|last1=Buxton|first1=Frank|last2=Owen|first2=Bill|title=The Big Broadcast: 1920-1950|url=https://archive.org/details/bigbroadcast192100buxt|url-access=registration|date=1972|publisher=The Viking Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/bigbroadcast192100buxt/page/38 38]}}</ref> |} '''Source:''' ''Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows''<ref name="rp">{{cite book |last1=Terrace |first1=Vincent |title=Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows |date=2 September 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0528-9 |page=50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EhOBCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow%22+NBC&pg=PA50 |access-date=October 23, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> except as noted.

Others heard regularly on the program were Ginger Jones, Myra McCormick, Margaret MacDonald and Paul Stewart. Ed Herlihy was the announcer. William Meader provided the music.<ref name=rp/> The writer was Ruth Adams Knight.<ref name=dunningota/>

==See also== {{Portal|Radio}} *List of radio soap operas *Radio drama

== References == {{Reflist}}

Category:1943 radio programme debuts Category:1944 radio programme endings Category:NBC radio programs Category:American radio soap operas