Bud and Lou discuss their New Years plans. Lou plays the detective Sam Shovel, who goes to Lt. Abbotts' house for a New Years party.
Running time - 30:02 min
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Abbott & Costello 48-12-30 Sam Shovel - The Murder at the Radio Quiz Show
Bud and Lou discuss their New Years plans. Lou plays the detective Sam Shovel, who goes to Lt. Abbotts' house for a New Years party.
The Great Gildersleeve 47-01-01 New Years Costume Ball
Gildy finds his date to the New Years Ball is going with someone else, so he resolves to be a bad boy, and goes to the Ball alone.
Running time - 29:50 min
The Henry Morgan Show 47-01-01 New Years Show
Henry goes over the joke statistics and leftover sound effects from the previous year. Predictions for the coming year. Doctors starting to advertise on the radio, and new medical theories.
Running time - 25:04 min
The Fred Allen Show 45-12-30 Radio Shows in Russia - Duke Ellington
Fred and Portland head down to Allens' Alley to ask "How do you fell about Mayor La Guardia's return to private life?". Fred talks with Gregory Ratoff about what American radio shows would sound like in Russia. The program ends early, and listeners are transferred to the Cafe Zanzibar for the music of Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
Running time - 28:45 min
Monday, December 30, 2013
The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater 46-12-23 Snow White - Charlie McCarthy
The Screen Guild presents their radio version of the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
Cover photo from a book version
Running time - 28:02 min
Radio Hall Of Fame 43-12-26 New Years Message
Raymond Edward Johnson performs in a play about what Thomas Jefferson would say to this country during war, called Toward The Future. Fred Allen appears with opera singer Lauritz Melchior, in a parody sketch along with the cast from his radio show called Life Can Be Melchior.
Running time - 59:51 min
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Fred Allen - Texaco Star Theater 41-01-01 Amateur of the Month
The Texaco News Of The Week presents the Lowlights Awards Of 1940. Portland tells of her mothers problems caused by Freds' gift to her. Fred introduces an amateur opera singer from the Major Bowes show, then tells how the Major got his name. Fred and Portland try to get Kenny to make a New Years resolution. The Texaco Workshop Players do a play called The Quiz Nippers, a satire of the show Quiz Kids.
Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa
Running time - 1:02:03 min
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Burns and Allen 48-12-30 New Year's Eve Party
George and Gracie plan a big New Years Eve celebration, but Gracie forgot to mail out the invitations. Everyone has made other plans for New Years and can't make it then, so Gracie decides to hold the party early and fool George into thinking he overslept a whole day.
Running time - 29:40 min
Lux Radio Theater 51-12-24 Alice in Wonderland
Lux Radio presents Alice in Wonderland, based on Walt Disneys' version of the Lewis Carroll classic. Starring Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Jerry Colonna as The March Hare, Sterling Holloway as The Cheshire Cat, Bill Thompson as The White Rabbit, Gale Gordon as The Caterpillar, and Verna Felton as The Queen Of Hearts.
Running time - 58:43 min
Friday, December 27, 2013
The Whistler 48-12-26 Delayed Christmas Present
A woman who got involved with a murdering crook, flees town from him, only to be found by a detective. She tells him he has the wrong person and proceeds to tell him the story of the woman he's looking for.
Running time - 30:45 min
Jack Benny Program 42-12-27 New Years Eve Skit
Jack and the gang present their annual New Years Eve "Allegorical Fantasy", with guest Fred Allen. Bandleader Benny Goodman is also a guest, replacing an absent Phil Harris.
Running time - 29:30 min
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Lux Radio Theater 38-12-26 Snow White
Cecil B. DeMille hosts this Lux Radio presentation of the Walt Disney classic, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
Running time - 56:11 min
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Command Performance 43-12-25 Christmas Special
Bob Hope is the Master of Ceremonies for this special Christmas broadcast, with Dinah Shore, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante, Ed Gardner, Frances Langford, Ginny Simms, Merwyn Bogue, Kay Kyser and His Orchestra, and many others. Special messages to the troops from Washington, from Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall, Secretary Of The Navy Frank Knox, and the Secretary Of War Henry Stimson.
Running time 1:31:10 min
Fred Allen - Town Hall Tonight 1937-12-22 Santa Will Not Ride Tonight - Jack Benny
Fred interviews a Lunch Wagon operator, and then a photographer for Radio Guide. Guest Jack Benny tries to get Fred to buy his Maxwell, after they talk about their old vaudeville days. The Mighty Allen Art Players perform a Christmas story called, "Santa Clause Sits Down, or Jingle Bells Shall Not Ring Tonight."
Running time - 58:18 min
The Harold Peary Show 50-12-20 Childrens Christmas Party
Harold is elected to play Santa Clause by his club for a Christmas party for the kids, but decides to let a reformed thief take his place. Harold soon regrets that decision.
Running time - 29:34 min
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
President Franklin Roosevelt 41-12-24 White House Christmas Tree Ceremony
President Roosevelt is joined by the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, in giving speeches at the White House Christmas Community Tree Ceremony. This was the first time that the lighting of the National Christmas Community Tree occurred within the White House grounds. The tree was not lit for security reasons.
President Franklin Roosevelt (center), and Winston Churchill (right).
Running time - 30:16 min
CBS World News Today 42-12-20 War and Political News
News of the Russian offensive. British forces in Burma. Allied offensive in Tunisia. Report from Algiers despite Axis jamming. Report on the British war effort against the Germans. Report from Cairo. In the US, opposition to charges of Sedition, by isolationists. Government discourages personal travel.
Running time - 24:22 min
Red Skelton 45-12-25 Christmas Trees
The Skelton Scrapbook of Satire presents stories about Christmas Trees, with Clem Kadiddlehopper and The Mean Widdle Kid.
Running time - 29:38 min
Monday, December 23, 2013
The Hall of Fame 1934-12-23 The Christmas Stocking Walt Disney and Friends
Walt Disney introduces his friends, including Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, The Three Little Pigs, and others, who perform their favorite musical numbers for the kids.
Running time - 29:51 min
Suspense 43-12-23 Back For Christmas - Peter Lorre
A professor of botany tells his nagging wife he is digging a "Devils Garden" in the basement for his specimens, but actually has other plans for the hole he's digging.
Running time - 29:59 min
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Sealtest Variety Theater 48-12-23 Christmas Show
Dorothy Lamour sings Jingle Bells. Victor Moore joins Dorothy in a Christmas skit. Pat O'Brien plays in a football skit.
Host Dorothy Lamour
Running time - 28:56 min
The Big Show 50-12-24 Jimmy Durante, Robert Merrill
To help her get a Christmas present for Margaret O'Brien, Tallulah Bankhead invites Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr, and Ed Wynn for suggestions.
Host Tallulah Bankhead
Running time - 1:27:46 min
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Sherlock Holmes 47-12-21 The Adventure of the Christmas Bride
Holmes and Watson have been invited to attend a wedding to insure it takes place.
Running time - 27:34 min
Burns and Allen Show 41-12-23 Santa and the Wicked Witch
On Christmas Eve, Gracie tells Herman the Duck a bedtime story to get him to go to sleep. After he's asleep, Gracie goes to sleep as well and dreams of taking Herman to the North Pole to see Santa, but Herman gets duck-napped by a Wicked Witch.
Running time - 30:34 min
Friday, December 20, 2013
The Shadow 39-12-24 The Stockings Were Hung
Lamont helps a couple of children look for their father who went missing after he had been cheated out of his company by an unscrupulous business partner.
Running time - 24:49 min
Fibber McGee and Molly 44-12-19 Early Christmas Presents
Fibber goes snooping around in the hall closet looking at all the presents and finds one neither he nor Molly know anything about. While Fibber tries to figure it out, Molly ends up letting him open up a couple of his presents.
Running time - 29:24 min
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Kraft Music Hall w/ Bing Crosby 44-12-21 Christmas Show
Bing Crosby, The Chariotters, John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra, The Kraft Choral Club, Charles Henderson, and Eugenie Baird, perform a variety of Holiday songs.
Running time - 29:50 min
Ceiling Unlimited 43-12-19 Christmas Show - Letter to an Unborn Son
Joseph Cotten Hosts. Constance Moore sings "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas". Joseph Cotten introduces a story based on actual events during the war, involving a soldiers' promise to deliver a letter to the unborn son of his dead comrade.
Joseph Cotten, Host of America — Ceiling Unlimited
Running time - 30:13 min
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Life Of Riley 47-12-20 Riley's First Christmas
The kids want to go away for Christmas, but that upsets Riley who wants to spend the holiday at home. Riley tells them the story (in flashback) of the trouble he had getting a home for his first Christmas with Peg.
Running time - 27:50 min
Nick Carter 43-12-25 Nick Carters Christmas Adventure
After Nick makes a failed attempt at soliciting a donation for a Christmas party from a rich miser, some people from the mans past show up, thanks to Nick, and remind him of the things he's lost because of his Scrooge-like attitude.
Running time - 29:45 min
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Fred Allen - Texaco Star Theater 40-12-25 Otto Hottendorf
Announcer Jimmy Wallington doesn't appreciate having to work on Christmas. The Texaco News presents people involved in the new Sixth Avenue subway that just opened. Fred interviews sausage stuffer Otto Hottendorf. Fred and Portland talk about their Christmas presents. Kenny Baker is disappointed to learn there is no Santa Clause. The Texaco Workshop Players present a murder mystery.
Running time - 43:34 min
Monday, December 16, 2013
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Suspense 53-12-21 T'was the Night Before Christmas
A child anxiously awaits the return of her parents from an overseas trip on Christmas Eve, but her parents are several hours late and their plane reported missing.
Running time - 29:53 min
Jack Benny Show 36-12-20 An Old Fashioned Christmas
The cast reveal their "other" sides. Jack refuses to make up with Phil. The gang gives each other Christmas presents.
Running time - 29:30 min
Saturday, December 14, 2013
CBS Radio Mystery Theater 77-03-1 The Hound of the Baskervilles
Kevin McCarthy stars in this Sherlock Holmes drama about a devilish hound from hell that threatens the life of the heir to Baskerville Hall.
Running time - 44:49 min
2000 Plus 50-05-17 The Insect
A scientist who has amplified the size of insects in his basement laboratory, must take a short trip out of town, leaving his wife who is terrified of the insects. The wife and a delivery boy become trapped in the lab with the monstrous insects.
Running time - 29:39 min
Friday, December 13, 2013
Fibber McGee and Molly 41-12-16 Fibber Cuts His Own Tree
Fibber chops down a rather large tree for Christmas, but needs to trim it way down to size.
Running time - 29:39 min
The Shadow 49-03-13 The Ring of Mahlalayee
While on a business trip in the Caribbean, Lamont and Margo happen upon an out-of-the-way hotel where the proprietor uses a ring to control a murderous dwarf God.
Running time - 24:50 min
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Dangerous Assignment 50-04-10 Pirate Loot
Steve Mitchell goes to Trinidad and teams up with another agent to locate sunken experimental underwater demolition plans before they falls into the wrong hands.
Brian Donlevy starring as Steve Mitchell
Running time - 28:48 min
Jack Benny Program 41-11-30 Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde Part One
Jack and the gang talk about the gifts they plan to give each other for Christmas. Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde is tonights play that the gang performs.
Running time - 29:30 min
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
X Minus One 57-10-17 Point of Departure
The discovery by archeologists of the ancient Poseiden Tablets, describe a power source that could lead to unlimited energy and space flight.
Running time - 20:09 min
Burns and Allen 44-12-19 Christmas Presents
With Christmas getting closer, George starts receiving hints from everyone for presents. George and Gracie decide they shouldn't get each other presents, but neither one keeps to the agreement.
Running time - 27:45 min
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Molle Mystery Theater 44-07-25 Fifty Candles
A ruthless businessman gives a party including some of the people who hate him, and is murdered by one of the guests.
*Note: This show is also called The Mystery Playhouse on the AFRS.
Running time - 31:12 min
Abbott & Costello 44-12-14 Christmas Shopping for Lou's Girlfriend
Bud and Lou go to a department store to shop for Christmas gifts, but Lou has trouble picking a gift for his girlfriend.
Running time - 29:14 min
Monday, December 9, 2013
The Circle 39-1-22 Groucho owes Chico Money
Ronald Colman hosts this variety show beginning with Cary Grant singing Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Chico Marx accuses Groucho of owing him money. Ronald Colman performs in a drama about a doctor who meets desperate strangers with a wounded man while driving on a road through Gettysburg. Carole Lombard tells Cary what it would be like if women ran the world. Ronald Colman reads a speech of Socrates after he was condemned to death.
Cary Grant, Groucho Marx, Carole Lombard, Lawrence Tibbett, Chico Marx and host Ronald Colman
Running time - 58:21 min
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater 77-07-25 The Adventure of the Blue Carbunkle
Sherlock Holmes seeks to solve the mystery of how a stolen rare jewel came to be found inside a Christmas goose.
Running time - 43:51 min
Sunday, December 8, 2013
The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe 49-04-02 The Last Laugh
Marlowe attends the reading of the Will of a man he once sent to jail, and is now supposed to be dead. The "dead man" appears after the will is read, to expose his practical joke, but he soon turns up dead anyway.
Gerald Mohr stars as Philip Marlowe
Running time - 29:28 min
Dark Fantasy 41-12-05 The Demon Tree
A small group go for a walk in a forest, even after hearing about a Demon Tree in that forest that is believed to be cursed.
Running time - 23:18 min
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