VARIETY OF SOUNDS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, April 4, 1998

ARCHIE ANDREWS (9-18-48) Bob Hastings stars as Archie with Harlan Stone as Jughead. A Sunday drive to Aunt Harriet’s house is plagued with automobile problems. Swift and Company, NBC. (27:55)

KNICKERBOCKER PLAYHOUSE (1940s) “Love on a Shoestring” stars Barbara Luddy and Bob Bailey in a romantic comedy about a boy who meets a girl on a subway. Drene Shampoo, NBC. (30:001

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (10-1-46) Jim and Marian Jordan star in the first show of the new season. McGee is ill, so Doc Gamble (Arthur Q. Brian) prescribes a sure-fire cure. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (29:27)

PASSING PARADE (1936) Storyteller John Nesbitt presents “the entertaining and dramatic side of the news,” with stories about Adolph Hitler, Bette Davis, Col. Joseph Rickey. DuArt Co., NBC. (14:20)

ARTHUR GODFREY’S ROUNDTABLE (7-27­52) Arthur Godfrey presides over this week­end edition of his Monday thru Friday program, using selected excerpts from his morning shows. Featured are Jeanette Davis, Frank Parker, Julius LaRosa, Archie Blyer and the orchestra. Holland Furnace Co., CBS. (26:16)

SUSPENSE (4-10-47) “Community Property” starring Kirk Douglas as a man who learns he is due to inherit $50,000 from an elderly rela­tive. Cast includes Cathy Lewis and Joseph Kearns. Roma Wines, CBS. (29:37).