RADIO TO GET INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT BY

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, November 27, 2004

ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET (12­19-48) The Nelsons agree on a “practical” Christmas gift for the house – a radio-phono­graph which will be their gift to each other. Ozzie and Harriet star as themselves, with John Brown as Thorny, Mary Jane Croft as Harriet’s mother, Janet Waldo as teenager Emmylou. International Silver Company, NBC. (29 min)

CINNAMON BEAR PREVIEW (1937) A pro­motional recording intended to persuade sta­tions and sponsors to support the proposed Christmas season radio series for young audiences. Announcer John Hiestand introduces producer Lindsay MacHarrie, who tells how the series was developed. (16 min)

CINNAMON BEAR (1937) Isolated episode. Chapter Five: Just as Paddy O’Cinnamon, Judy and Jimmy are about to be pushed into the Immense Inkwell, the Crazy Quilt Dragon arrives with an army of Scissor Soldiers. Syn­dicated. (12 min)

SUSPENSE (12-21-58) “Out For Christmas” starring Raymond Burr as an ex-convict who poses as Santa Claus to get the policeman who sent him to jail. Cast includes Joan Banks, Howard McNear, Karl Swenson, Dick Beals. Multiple sponsors, CBS. (23 min)

CHRISTMAS EVE OPEN HOUSE (12-24-84) Excerpt from Chuck Schaden’s nine-hour Christmas Eve broadcast on Chicago radio sta­tion WAIT, celebrating with old-time radio shows, holiday music and conversations with the station’s air personalities: Eddie Hubbard, Rick Patton, Len Johnson, Ken Alexander, Dick Harley, Jack McGuire, Duane Dow, Dick Buckley. This segment features the opening of the show and the complete

SCREEN DI­RECTORS’ PLAYHOUSE production of “Miracle on 34th Street” starring Edmund Gwenn from 12-23-49. (21 min & 22 min) Additional excerpts from this WAIT special will be featured on TWTD during the next three weeks.

THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH (12-24-45) This is Charles Dickens’ other Christmas story, written in 1845, two years after “A Christ­mas Carol.” It looks like a dismal Christmas for poor toy maker Caleb Plummer and his blind daughter when Mr. Tackelton, Caleb’s stern employer, refuses a salary advance and de­mands a full day’s work on Christmas. Cast features Arthur Sedgewick and Charles Eggleston. Narrated by Everett Clarke. Mu­sic by Joseph Gallicchio and the NBC Chicago orchestra. Sustaining, NBC. (24 min).