PROGRAMS THAT GOT BUMPED

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, June 23rd, 1999

This week we present a selection of old time radio programs and features that were pre­viously scheduled to appear on our Those Were The Days broadcast but were “bumped” or pre-empted for one reason or another. It’s a make-good afternoon of vintage enter­tainment.

SPOTLIGHT REVUE (3-12-48) Spike Jones and his City Slickers with Dorothy Shay, the Park Avenue Hillbilly. Doodles Weaver as Professor Feedlebaum sings “Sonny Boy” and guest Jack Smith sings songs dedicated to the Great White Way. CBS, Coca-Cola. (10:55; 8:55; 9:45)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST is actor PAT O’BRIEN, reminiscing about his long career on the stage and screen. (13:05)

GUEST STAR (1950s) “The Old Coach” stars Pat O’Brien as a feisty Irish football coach who is ousted for being “too tough” on a rich boy. Del Sharbutt announces. Syn­dicated, U.S. Treasury Department. (14:40)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST PAT O’BRIEN continues his show business memories. (16:05)

ACADEMY AWARD (6-22-46) “The Front Page” stars Pat O’Brien and Adolph Menjou in a radio version of their hit 1930 film. A crack reporter becomes involved in the escape of a man about to be hanged. CBS, House of Squibb. (16:45; 13:00)

ACTOR PAT O’BRIEN continues to reflect on his long career. (11 :50)

COMEDY CARAVAN (11-16-45) Jimmy Durante (“The Nose”) and Garry Moore (“The Haircut”) in a comdey-variety show with Howard Petrie, Roy Bargy and the orchestra, singer Jeri Sullivan. Jimmy and Garry in sketches about lady football players and a scientist experimenting with Uranium. AFRS rebroadcast. (7:00; 7:30; 8:20)

WALTER WINCHELL (1-11-48) The Jergens Journal with the nationally syndicated colum­nist talks about a tax cut and Tokyo Rose. Jergens Lotion. ABC. (13:00)