Fibber McGee and the Good Old Days of Radio – THE SUNDAY SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, May 6, 1978

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (3-28-48) Jack Benny borrows Ronald Coleman’s Oscar statue and becomes a victim of a hold-up. This is the show with the famous “Your money or your life” gag! With Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Rochester, Dennis Day, Don Wilson. Lucky Strike Cigarettes. (8:35; 11:20; 10:30)

THE SHADOW (1-12-41) “The Ghost Building” is the scene of many mysterious deaths. Lamont Cranston investigates. Blue Coal. (16:10; 13:00)

MERCURY THEATRE ON THE AIR (10-30-38) Orson Welles presents his classic radio broadcast of H. G. Wells’ science fiction drama, “The War of the Worlds.” It’s become the most famous radio program of all time, frightening half the country when it was heard in 1938. (39:25; 18:30)

CHARLIE MC CARTHY SHOW (10-21-45) Edgar Bergen and friends Charlie and Mortimer Snerd, with regulars Anita Gordon, Ray Noble and the orchestra, Ersil Twing and guest Fred Allen. In a sketch, Charlie plays a lumber tycoon and Fred is Chinese detective One Long Pan. Armed Forces Radio rebroadcast. (11:10; 14:15)