VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, March 21, 2009

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (1-17-43) Harold Peary stars as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the water commissioner, who is excited about his first public appearance as a speaker at the Summerfield Womans’ Club. Cast: Walter Tetley, Lillian Randolph, Shirley Mitchell, Lurene Tuttle. Ken Carpenter announces. Kraft Foods, NBC. (30 min)

SCREEN DIRECTORS’ PLAYHOUSE (7-29-­49) “Saigon” starring Alan Ladd in an adven­ture set in Indochina involving a black mar­keteer and a half-million dollars. Ladd recreates his original 1948 screen role. Jimmy Wallington announces. Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, NBC. (28 min)

GOOD NEWS OF 1938 (2-10-38) Robert Taylor hosts an all-star program broadcast from the studios of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Featured segments: Fannie Brice and Hanley Stafford as Baby Snooks and Daddy, expect­ing daddy’s boss for dinner; singers Allan Jones and Betty James; actress Virginia Bruce joins Robert Taylor in a playlet, “Where’s There’s Smoke”; actors James Stewart, as a medical officer in the U. S. Army, and John Carradine, as Abraham Lincoln, in a scene from Stewart’s new film, Of Human Hearts. Meredith Willson and the orchestra. Maxwell House Coffee, NBC. (33 min & 27 min)

BOB HOPE SHOW (3-14-50) Broadcasting from New York, Hope welcomes guest Fred Allen, who joins Bob in a sketch about “Arthur Hopefrey’s Talent Scouts.” Cast: Doris Day, Hy Averback, Jack Kirkwood, Irene Ryan, Les Brown and his Band of Renown. Lever Bros., NBC. (30 min)

GREEN HORNET (4-16-46) “Figure in the Photograph” stars Bob Hall as Britt Reid, Raymond Toyo as Kato and dim Irwin as Mike Axford. A photo taken at a department store fire reveals something rather unusual. Syndicated. (25 min).