Nov 16th to Nov 22nd Shows and Highlights

If you haven’t grabbed it yet, the new weekly schedule can be found by clicking to see Full Story & Pictures and then the following link; ShowSchedules

Our birthday blocks this week are headed up by my past interview with comedy actor Alan Young. Before he starred as Wilber Post on the talking horse 1960s sitcom, Mister Ed and prior to spending decades as the Scottish accented Scrooge McDuck for Disney Studios, Young was a radio star. To mark his birthday we’ll present a couple from his 1940s comedy variety show plus bring by my visit with him conducted back in 2011.

Among the other birthday celebrants: movie actress Gene Tierney (Guest on Duffy’s Tavern, Command Performance); Frank Graham (Jeff Regan, Romance Of the Ranchos); Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee & Molly); Eleanor Audley (The Whistler, The Six Shooter); Judy Canova (Judy Canova Show) writer Don Quinn (Fibber McGee & Molly, The Halls Of Ivy); singer/composer Hoagy Carmichael (Guest On The Chase & Sanborn Hour); cartoon voice legend Daws Butler (The Stan Freberg Show, CBS Radio Workshop) and George Petrie (Philo Vance Detective, Suspense).

Greg

Hover over picture for caption, click for larger image

Related Posts

Feb 15th to Feb 21st Shows and Highlights

We have a great week of birthday specials for some of radio’s top performers including Gale Gordon (Our Miss Brooks, Fibber McGee & Molly, Casebook Of Gregory Hood, My Favorite Husband, Harris & Faye, The Halls Of Ivy); Staats Cotsworth (Casey Crime Photographer & CBS Radio Workshop); Mary Jane Croft (Suspense, Broadway Is My Beat); Edgar Bergen (four Bergen & McCarthy episodes plus hour long broadcasts of The Chase & Sanborn Hour and the New Edgar Bergen Hour); Chester Morris (Boston Blackie); Mary Lee Robb (Marjorie on The Great Gildersleeve); and imposter/restaurateur “Prince” Michael Romanoff.

Feb 8th to Feb 14th Shows and Highlights

Happy Valentine’s Day, or as we like to say it on RadioClassics, Happy Birthday, Jack! This year, for Jack Benny’s birthday, we have two different specials. The first features a two-hour block with four episodes from his long running comedy series, The Jack Benny Program. Whereas the second special finds Benny working with Gail Patrick in Lux Radio Theatre’s “Killer Kates” and stealing the show from Claudette Colbert and Basil Rathbone in a very creative episode of The Screen Guild Theatre.

Recent Posts