Fibber and Molly are taking time off, and instead, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, host a half hour of music to bring in the New Year.
Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians
Running time - 27:55 min
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Thursday, December 31, 2015
Fibber McGee And Molly 46-12-31 New Years Eve Party with Fred Waring
Fibber and Molly are taking time off, and instead, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, host a half hour of music to bring in the New Year.
Milton Berle Show 47-12-30 Salutes the New Year
Berle's salute to the new year begins with the highlights of 1947. Two versions of how the Milton Berle Show got started; Berle's version, and then the truth. Questions about New Years from the audience. The Man of the Year. What happened to Berle last New Year's Eve.
Running time - 29:27 min
Red Skelton Show 50-12-31 New Year's Puzzle
San Fernando Red explains his political plans for the new year. Willie Lump-Lump has been missing for 2 days and Rod O'Connor promises to find him. Rod visits Clem Kadiddlehopper, Cauliflower McPugg, and Junior The Mean Widdle Kid, to see if they knew what happened to Willie.
Running time - 29:33 min
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Andrews Sisters 44-12-31 Guest - Bing Crosby, Gabby Hayes
It's New Year's Eve and the Andrews Sisters start their new show, and inherit a dude ranch they call the "Eight To The Bar" ranch where they meet their foreman Gabby Hayes. Gabby likes Patty and gets jealous when he hears Bing Crosby will arrive today to stay at the ranch for a while, and trades insults with him when he shows up.
Running time - 28:35 min
Aldrich Family 48-12-30 New Years Eve Party
Members of the Aldrich family each have plans for New Year's Eve, but all of their plans keep changing.
Running time - 24:18 min
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Fibber McGee And Molly 52-01-01 New Year's Day Visiting
Fibber and Molly spend New Year's Day visiting their friends, and Fibber makes a pig out of himself at each stop.
Running time - 29:38 min
The Henry Morgan Show 49-12-30 New Years Eve Show
Henry tells some leftover jokes from earlier in the year. Henry chats with a lady cab driver. A parody of the World News. A couple visits friends on New Year's Eve.
Running time - 28:21 min
Red Skelton Show 48-12-31 New Year's Eve Show
The Skelton Television Players perform "A G.I. Joe Remembers New Year's Eve." Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid hassles his parents who are preparing to go out for New Year's.
Running time - 29:53 min
Fibber McGee And Molly 43-12-28 A Fresh Start for New Years
McGee has a ribbon on his finger to remind him of something, but he can't remember, and has been working like a dog to fix things and return borrow items, hoping that one of them was it.
Running time - 28:45 min
Monday, December 28, 2015
Duffy's Tavern 51-12-28 Hawaiian Vacation Slogan Contest
Archie enters and wins a contest for a trip to Hawaii, but the contest is for 13 year olds, and he tries to con his way into getting the prize anyway.
Running time - 30:04 min
Great Gildersleeve 48-12-29 A Wedding Is Imminent
Gildersleeve is having second thoughts about marrying Adeline and wants to get out of it.
Running time - 29:50 min
Jack Benny Program 44-01-02 Annual New Year's show
Jack announces that the cast is going to perform their annual New Year's play called The New Tenant, and tries to explain it to Dennis. In the play, Father Time, played by Jack, listens to the World Series game on the radio between "The Allied All-Stars" against "The Axis Pole Cats."
Running time - 29:30 min
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Fibber McGee And Molly 48-12-28 New Year's Eve Dance
The McGees enter High Society when the Mayor invites them to attend the Country Club Dance for New Year's Eve.
Running time - 28:29 min
Burns and Allen Show 42-12-29 Gracie's Dating Service
Gracie learns that guest Rita Hayworth has trouble getting dates so Gracie tries to set her up on a date.
Running time - 28:59 min
Red Skelton Show 46-01-01 Bells and Resolutions
The Skelton Scrapbook of Satire episode starts with Deadeye riding into town to help with the New Year's celebration. Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid proves to his grandma that he isn't going to change for the new year.
Running time - 29:21 min
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Great Gildersleeve 45-12-23 Christmas Eve at Home
On Christmas Eve, Gildy and family are wrapping presents and friends are stopping by to drop off gifts and wishes for a Merry Christmas.
Running time - 29:50 min
Dennis Day Show 46-12-25 The Boy Who Sang for a King
Mrs. Anderson orders Dennis to leave the rooming house after he ruins her hair with a permanent wave formula he invented, but changes her mind after hearing him tell a Christmas story to a little boy.
Running time - 29:41 min
Friday, December 25, 2015
Moonlight Serenade 41-12-24 Christmas Show
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra lead this music filled program with Ray Eberle, The Modernaires, and Marion Hutton.
Running time - 14:04 min
Elgin Holiday Specials 48-12-25 7th Annual Elgin Christmas Show
The host of this 2 hour special, Don Ameche, introduces Lauritz Melchior who sings a Christmas carol, followed by Al Jolson who sings "I'm Sitting On Top Of The World". Al talks to Don about his visit to Santa. Danny Thomas talks about how expensive it is for him to live in Beverly Hills. Edgar Bergen has given Charlie McCarthy a horse for Christmas and he can keep it only if he remains good. Al wants Charlie to sell the horse. Don performs in a story called "The Other Wise Man". Cass Daley tells about her search for romance. Other stars include Jack Kirkwood, Jo Stafford, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, Robert Armbruster, and Sandra Berkova.
Host Don Ameche
Running time - 1:52:10 min
Campbell Playhouse 39-12-24 A Christmas Carol
Lionel Barrymore stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in this version of "A Christmas Carol" produced by The Campbell Playhouse and narrated by Orson Welles. This is the story of a selfish old miser who learns on the night of Christmas Eve, the true meaning of Christmas and redeems his soul. Mr. Barrymore speaks to the audience at the end of the broadcast and wishes you all a Merry Christmas.
Lionel Barrymore stars as Ebenezer Scrooge
Running time - 51:50 min
Abbott & Costello 44-12-21 Christmas Party
Costello plans a Christmas party for his little brother Sebastian. Costello falls asleep while singing Sebastian a lullaby and dreams of his own childhood at Christmas.
Running time - 20:52 min
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Fibber McGee And Molly 41-12-23 Christmas Presents
The McGees receive an electric doorbell in the mail as a Christmas present, but they can't find out who sent it. Gildersleeve is in town and pays his old neighbors a visit.
Running time - 29:11 min
Campbell Playhouse 38-12-23 A Christmas Carol
Orson Welles narrates the Campbell Playhouse version of the Charles Dickens classic, about Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who is visited by the ghost of his partner and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, on Christmas Eve.
Running time - 1:00:47 min
Great Gildersleeve 44-12-24 Twas the Night Before Christmas
After receiving some good news from Judge Hooker, Gildy finally gets the Christmas Spirit and runs out to shop for presents and invites everyone to his house for Christmas Eve.
Running time - 28:58 min
Our Miss Brooks 55-12-25 The Magic Christmas Tree
Miss Brooks expects to spend Christmas Eve alone, with no family in town and all her friends visiting their own families, but then she buys a Christmas tree from a little boy that claims it's magic. Miss Brooks falls asleep and has a dream that later comes true.
Running time - 24:33 min
Aldrich Family 52-12-21 Christmas Eve With The Family
Confusion and frustration in the Aldrich household when Henry competes with another boy to get a special gift for a girl instead of staying home with the family.
Running time - 28:02 min
Great Gildersleeve 53-12-02 Earning Christmas Money
Gildersleeve has the idea to talk Leroy into getting a job to earn money for Christmas, but Leroy turns the tables on him and gets Gildy to also agree to get a job for extra money.
Running time - 29:08 min
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
The Shadow 40-12-22 Joey's Christmas Story
Lamont and Margo help out the family of a paperboy whose father committed a crime out of desperation so his family could have a nice holiday.
Running time - 29:03 min
Burns and Allen Show 42-12-22 Santa and the Pirates
Gracie falls asleep and dreams that she and George go to Santa's Workshop and find that pirates have stolen all the toys, so Gracie and George help Santa catch the pirates and get the toys back.
Running time - 29:25 min
Fibber McGee And Molly 52-12-23 Doc's Surprise Party
Fibber and Molly get their friends to help arrange a surprise Christmas party for a lonely Doc Gamble.
Running time - 30:13 min
The Fitch Bandwagon 47-12-21 Annual Christmas Show
Phil's kids want to stay up and see Santa on Christmas Eve, so Phil plans to hire a Santa, and Jack Benny arrives to accept the job.
*note: This same script was used later on the Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show, on 48-12-19 and again on 49-12-25.
Running time - 28:59 min
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
New Edgar Bergen Hour 55-12-25 Christmas Show
Edgar's daughter Candy visits and has fun with Charlie reciting "The Night Before Christmas." Professor Kirkwood's topic for today is "Bankruptcy And How To Enjoy It." Mortimer explains how he hurt his nose tying his shoelaces. Bergen's version of a quiz show called, "What The Devil Do You Do?" Bergen interviews one of Santa's Helpers. Charlie tells what really happened in the story of "Little Red Riding Hood", according to the wolf.
Running time - 54:45 min
Monday, December 21, 2015
The Saint 49-12-25 The Nineteen Santa Clauses
The Saint is all dressed up as Santa Claus to entertain underprivileged children when almost immediately 2 separate guns are pointed at him accusing him of having "the stuff" and demands that he turn it over, or else.
*note: This script was also used in the later broadcast of 50-12-24
Running time - 28:59 min
Red Skelton Show 50-12-24 Christmas Show
Junior "The Mean Widdle Kid" appears in a Christmas play with Deadeye and Clem Kadiddlehopper.
Running time - 28:38 min
Great Gildersleeve 47-12-24 Leroy's Christmas Dog
Gildy still hasn't gotten Leroy the model airplane he's been begging for, but now the store is all out and he has to find something else for Leroy. A stray dog follows Gildy home and Leroy thinks it's for him.
Lux Radio Theater 47-03-10 It's a Wonderful Life
Jimmy Stewart stars as a man who has a run of bad luck, and has given up on life, until he meets an angel who shows him how the world would be different had he never been born. Also starring Donna Reed and Victor Moore.
Running time - 59:18 min
Abbott & Costello Show 43-12-23 Christmas Show
Lou can't get anyone to come to his Christmas party. Lou tells the story of his childhood Christmas. All his friends surprise Lou by showing up to his party.
*note: This is the same script used later for the 45-12-20 broadcast.
Running time - 25:23 min
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Milton Berle Show 47-12-23 Salutes Christmas
Ralph Waldo Finster reads his version of the poem, "The Night Before Christmas." The "Christmas Forum Tonight" takes questions from the audience. Milton interviews a mailman. Milton recounts the trouble he had trying to buy a chinchilla muff for his wife for Christmas.
Running time - 27:08 min
Aldrich Family 48-12-23 Christmas Program
Henry has his heart set on the present he wants for Christmas and drops subtle hints to his parents that are a little too subtle.
Running time - 28:53 min
Great Gildersleeve 47-12-10 Christmas Shopping
Gildersleeve sets out to do some early Christmas shopping, but keeps getting sidetracked.
Running time - 29:50 min
Elgin Holiday Specials 45-12-25 4th Annual Elgin Christmas Show
Don Ameche hosts this 2 hour long 4th Elgin Christmas show, with entertainment provided by Bob Hope, Bob Crosby, Ginny Simms, Vera Vague, General Omar Bradley, Larry Storch, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, and many others.
Host Don Ameche
Running time - 2:00:19 min
Burns and Allen 43-12-21 Playing Santa Claus
Gracie fails to convince George to play Santa in a pageant, so she talks to Elsa Lanchester to try and get her husband, Charles Laughton, to play Santa, but he also refuses, and so begins a battle of wills between husbands and wives.
Running time - 28:41 min
Saturday, December 19, 2015
The Globe Theater 44-12-23 A Christmas Carol
Lionel Barrymore stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in the Globe Theater's production of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol.
Lionel Barrymore as Ebenezer Scrooge
Running time - 28:08 min
Fibber McGee And Molly 46-12-24 Fixing Toys the Day Before Christmas
Fibber takes on the task of repairing old broken toys that will be given away to unfortunate children, and he's running late.
Running time - 29:15 min
Fibber McGee And Molly 48-12-07 Christmas Shopping
Fibber and Molly decide to avoid last minute Christmas shopping by not only shopping early, but also having the store do the wrapping for them, but when they get back home, they'd forgotten something.
Running time - 29:40 min
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Abbott & Costello 48-12-23 Sam Shovel - I'm All Yours in Buttons and Bows
Bud and Lou go Christmas shopping for presents for the cast. Lieutenant Abbott asks Detective Sam Shovel to help him guard a department store during the Christmas rush.
Running time - 29:18 min
Burns and Allen Show 36-12-23 Gracie's Christmas Carol
Gracie has written a brand new play for the cast to perform that she calls "A Christmas Carol," but George thinks someone else had written it first.
Running time - 26:49 min
Family Hour of Stars 48-12-19 Lullaby of Christmas
Gregory Peck narrates the tale of a speechless orphaned boy who works at an Inn in Bethlehem.
Running time - 18:31 min
Charlie McCarthy Show 44-12-24 Navy Choir
Charlie must recite "The Night Before Christmas", to receive a special gift from Bergen, but he hasn't studied for it. Bergen arranges for Charlie to take music lessons from Professor Gazzola. The Navy Choir from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station sing Christmas songs. Don Ameche recites "The American Prayer."
Running time - 29:26 min
Saturday, December 12, 2015
This Is My Best 44-12-19 The Plot To Overthrow Christmas
The Demons of the Underworld hold a meeting to decide how to deal with the setbacks they suffer during each Christmas Season, and settle on a plan to eliminate Santa Claus.
Orson Wells starring as Nero
Running time - 29:14 min
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