MONITOR’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY

Originally broadcast WDCB
Saturday, October 1, 2005 

MONITOR (5-11-55) “Going places and doing things.” An isolated hour of Monitor program­ming from its first season on the air. Includes John Cameron Swayze, Roger Price, Art Van Damme, John Chancellor, Frank Gallop and Miss Monitor. Multiple sponsors, NBC. (29 min & 29 min)

MONITOR (10-5-63) NBC’s weekend radio service presents an all-star salute to Groucho Marx on his 68th birthday. Groucho reflects upon his career and receives birthday greet­ings from Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Jack Benny, Zeppo Marx, Gummo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones, John Guedel, George Fenneman. Excerpts of Groucho on the air with John Barrymore, Rudy Vallee, Al Jolson, Oscar Levant, Tallulah Bankhead and You Bet Your Life.” Sustaining, NBC. (10 min & 31 min)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST is DENNIS HART, author of Monitor (Take 2) the “Inside Story of Network Radio’s Greatest Program.”