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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.






Running time - 30:02 min



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



Matinee with Bob & Ray 1949-12-31 - New Years Eve Show


Bob and Ray with highlights from their previous year.






Running time - 28:59 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