A strange man hires an unwitting advertising agent to set up a spectacular event, but as the time of the event grows near, the agent becomes suspicious as to the intentions of his mysterious client.
Running time - 30:19 min
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Monday, February 29, 2016
Dimension X 50-08-25 The Parade
A strange man hires an unwitting advertising agent to set up a spectacular event, but as the time of the event grows near, the agent becomes suspicious as to the intentions of his mysterious client.
Burns and Allen 43-01-26 King George
Gracie sends away to have George's ancestry traced, and learns he has royal blood, and George tries to take advantage of it.
Running time - 27:50 min
Sunday, February 28, 2016
The Man Called X 51-01-20 Japanese Underground
Mister X is in Japan investigating a number of mysterious accidents that lead him to the discovery of a secret organization bent on conquest.
Running time - 28:59 min
Fred Allen - Texaco Star Theater 43-05-23 What are you doing about National Poetry Week
Fred takes a trip to Allen's Alley to ask: "What are you doing about National Poetry Week?" Fred wants to write his life's story, and wants George Jessel to help him.
Running time - 28:54 min
The Shadow 48-03-21 Death Coils to Strike
A man comes to believe that his South American wife is turning into a snake, and commits murder to protect her.
Running time - 25:20 min
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Charlie McCarthy Show 42-10-18 From Quantico Marine Base
Charlie has broken Bergen's electric razor, so he tries to get Don Ameche to take the rap. Charlie and Don open an employment agency for female stenographers.
Running time - 20:10 min
X Minus One 55-05-22 Knock
Earth has been invaded and most all life has been destroyed except for pairs of a few species including a human pair, all confined to a zoo for the aliens.
Running time - 28:25 min
Bob Hope Show 45-12-18 From San Francisco
Bob and Frances Langford play a couple looking for a honeymoon cottage. Guest Wayne Morris jokes with Bob, and performs in a war play with him.
Running time - 29:33 min
NBC University Theater 49-01-09 The Grapes of Wrath
The University Theater production of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the story of the hardships of a family migrating from the destruction of the Dust Bowl to California in hopes of a better life, but all they find are more hardships.
Running time - 1:00:25 min
Fibber McGee and Molly 37-12-06 Dinner Is Not Served
With Molly away, Fibber promises to cook dinner for the women's club.
Running time - 29:46 min
Escape 48-02-22 How Love Came to Professor Guildea
A Professor who despises all affection seeks the help of a friend when he begins to feel haunted by an unseen entity that he feels is in love with him.
Running time - 29:30 min
Jack Benny Program 46-04-07 Weekend at the Acme Plaza
Mary drives guest Van Johnson to the studio and flits with him the whole time. Van joins the cast in a play about the goings on at the Acme Plaza Hotel.
Running time - 27:25 min
Friday, February 26, 2016
The Shadow 38-04-03 Death from the Deep
The Shadow must hunt down a madman who is using a submarine to destroy ships all over the world, for sport.
Running time - 29:27 min
Phil Harris Alice Faye Show 53-10-02 A Day at Santa Anita
Elliot talks Phil into buying a race horse with him, without seeing it first, and Willie challenges him to a race at the race track.
Running time - 29:44 min
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Eddie Cantor Show 48-06-08 Guest Al Jolson
Eddie receives a circular in the mail claiming that the housing market is about to crash, so he tries to trick Michael Redgrave into buy his house, but Eddie doesn't know Michael secretly sent the circular himself. Eddie and his wife are celebrating their 34th wedding anniversary so Al Jolson sings them "The Anniversary Song".
Running time - 29:52 min
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
The Six Shooter 54-01-31 Trail To Sunset
While chopping some wood for a morning campfire, Brit catches an outlaw trying to steal his horse and shoots him. Brit insists on taking the dying man to town for a doctor, and that he won't let anyone lynch him for a killing he confessed to committing the night before. On the way, Brit runs into a posse.
James Stewart as Brit Ponset, The Six-Shooter
Running time - 28:31 min
Fibber McGee And Molly 35-04-16 The Motorcycle Cop, the Judge and Fibber
In the very first show of the Fibber McGee and Molly series, Fibber runs a red light and ends up in traffic court. After a series of musical numbers, Fibber tells about his time in the Foreign Legion with a camel.
Running time - 28:47 min
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
The Man Called X 48-08-08 Mekong River Dam
Mr. Thurston travels to China to discover the truth about a series of mysterious accidents delaying the construction of a major dam on the Mekong river.
Starring Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston, The Man Called X
Running time - 29:27 min
The Judy Canova Show 44-03-21 Trip to the Hollywood Canteen
Judy talks about being at the Hollywood Canteen the night before, then receives her "How To Be A Detective Kit" in the mail so she can find out about her boarder.
Running time - 24:01 min
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Michael Shayne 48-07-29 Case Of The Blood Stained Pearls
A frantic old man tries to get Shayne to protect him because he believes his friends are out to kill him for some pearls he found and claims to be worth a million dollars. After a jeweler privately tells Shayne the pearls are worthless, he turns the old man away and refuses to help, until the old man returns and dies with bullets in him, leaving Shayne with the pearls, and now someone is after him too.
Jeff Chandler stars as Michael Shayne
Running time - 26:53 min
Jack Benny Program 51-01-28 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Jack and his gang are in New York for his television show and once again Jack is staying at that cheap hotel the Acme Plaza. Mary is staying at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, and Jack arrives to take her to dinner before going to the studio, and is astonished at her luxury suite. Jack and Mary get to a restaurant where Jack spots Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and invites himself to Doug's table when no other tables are available.
Running time - 29:36 min
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Sherlock Holmes 48-10-24 The Fabulous Windmill
Holmes and Watson travel to the Netherlands to investigate the disappearance of a dike inspector, and uncovers a criminal operation run by professor Moriarty.
Running time - 29:27 min
Burns and Allen 40-04-17 All Promises Are Fictitious
George claims he's not cheap. Gracie promises not to talk about her campaign but it keeps coming up. Gracie rehearses the speech she'll give in Dallas.
Running time - 29:14 min
Friday, February 19, 2016
Suspense 47-08-21 Murder Aboard the Alphabet
Fear grows aboard a deep sea tugboat as men begin to disappear from the ship, in alphabetical order, with the crew believing their mad captain is responsible.
Running time - 30:29 min
Our Miss Brooks 49-02-06 Missing Electric Heater
Mr. Conklin is determined to crack down and institute more discipline at the school, but instead the day finds him locked in the store room and a fire in the lab.
Running time - 29:30 min
Thursday, February 18, 2016
The Shadow 38-06-05 Tenor with a Broken Voice
Tragic events have befallen the opera house during performances of Pagliacci, and the Shadow promises to solve the mystery and bring the culprit to justice.
Starring Orson Welles as The Shadow
Running time - 29:33 min
Charlie McCarthy Show 46-02-17 Ray Milland
Charlie tries to sell Edgar some herb medicine but makes Charlie take some first. Bergen tells Mortimer he's a very important person on the show. Bergen is upset because someone took a picture of him and sent it to the newspaper, so he goes to the publisher, played by Ray Milland, to find out who is responsible.
Running time - 29:03 min
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Information Please 39-06-20 Guests Gracie Allen, John Gunther
The first question from listeners is "Name literary characters who flew through the air without an airplane." Panelists include John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams, John Gunther, and Gracie Allen.
Host Clifton Fadiman
Running time - 28:02 min
Martin & Lewis Show 51-11-09 Danny Thomas
Dean and Jerry play a married couple where Dean sings his part and Jerry wisecracks in response. Guest Danny Thomas joins Dean and Jerry in their version of the quiz show You Bet Your Life, with Dean as Groucho.
Running time - 29:41 min
Jack Benny Program 55-02-13 Surprise Party for Jack
Jack's friends are all planning to surprise him with a party, but Jack is upset because he thinks they've all forgotten his birthday.
* Script was used previously on the 41-02-16 and 48-02-15 broadcasts.
Running time - 29:30 min
Charlie McCarthy Show 48-12-26 Last Show for Chase and Sanborn
For their last Chase and Sanborn program, we're given a look back at the highlights of the career of Bergen and McCarthy on the radio with clips of past shows.
Running time - 29:52 min
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Father Knows Best 51-02-15 Orchid for a Lady
All the men in the neighborhood are buying their wives orchids for Valentine's Day, but the Anderson kids believe their father isn't going to buy one for their mother, so they decide to get her one themselves.
Running time - 28:24 min
Lux Radio Theater 43-05-03 The Navy Comes Through
Cecil B. DeMille introduces this World War 2 drama adapted from the 1942 film involving a merchant marine ship battling U Boats in the North Atlantic. Starring Pat O'Brien, George Murphy, and Ruth Hussey who substituted for Joan Bennett for this broadcast.
Running time - 59:27 min
Abbott & Costello 47-02-13 Costello Buys a Boat
Lou tries to tell a story about Moby Dick. Lou buys a boat and takes his friends out for a ride and gets shipwrecked. Lou reads a Valentine's Day poem to Bud.
Running time - 29:35 min
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Jack Benny Program 41-02-16 Surprise Birthday Party
The whole gang surprises Jack at his home to celebrate his birthday. Andy Devine and Herbert Marshall also stop by.
Running time - 29:30 min
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Phil Harris Alice Faye Show 49-04-10 The Circus
Remley promises to treat Phil and his family to the circus, but has lost the tickets and with only enough money for Alice and the kids to get seats, Phil and Remley try to sneak in. Julius works at the circus and tricks Phil and Remley into becoming animal acts.
Running time - 29:30 min
Burns and Allen 40-04-10 Gracie Wins Wisconsin
Gracie claims she won the Wisconsin primary by receiving 63 votes. A census taker tries to get Gracie's information. The cast complains about the lunch George served them.
Running time - 29:34 min
Escape 48-01-21 Papa Benjamin
A famous jazz band leader in New Orleans, desperate to find new material, stumbles into the world of voodoo and uses a forbidden voodoo chant in his musical number, with grave consequences.
Running time - 29:43 min
Harold Peary Show 51-02-14 Mistaken Valentines
Instead of delivering them himself, Harold trusts his cousin Raymond to deliver a handful of Valentines cards for him, but Raymond gives them to all the wrong people.
Running time - 29:30 min
Monday, February 1, 2016
Charlie McCarthy Show 45-02-04 Dr Albert Edward Wiggam
Bergen tries to teach Charlie the moral of the story of the Tortoise and the Hare. Doctor Wiggam attempts to cure Charlie of his bad habits.
Running time - 28:43 min
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