RADIO TO WRAP, BAKE AND DECORATE BY

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, December 18, 2004

SIX SHOOTER (12-20-52) “Britt Ponset’s Christmas Carol.” James Stewart stars as the Texas plainsman in a retelling of the Dickens classic, set in the West. Sustaining, NBC.

CHRISTMAS EVE OPEN HOUSE (12-24-84) Jazz music host Dick Buckley talks about jazz versions of Christmas songs and reads a Christ­mas card he received from Duke Ellington. WAIT, Chicago. (20 min)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (12-24-44) It’s the night before Christmas and Jack is decorating his tree. In a flashback to last week, we find Jack and Mary Livingstone doing their Christ­mas shopping. Cast includes Phil Harris, Ed­die “Rochester” Anderson, Don Wilson, Larry Stevens, Andy Devine, Frank Nelson, Verna Felton, Bea Benaderet. Jack offers a toast to the boys overseas. AFRS rebroadcast. (30 min)

CHRISTMAS EVE OPEN HOUSE (12-24-84) Excerpt. In this final segment from this broad­cast from 20 years ago, Chuck Schaden talks with the station’s morning personality and pro­gram director Eddie Hubbard, who reminisces about his career and recalls a lonely Christ­mas in Chicago. WAIT, Chicago. (21 min)

CBS RADIO WORKSHOP (12-23-56) “All is Bright.” On Christmas Eve a noted con­ductor, one of the passengers on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, tells the story of “Silent Night.” Sustaining, CBS. (25 min)

FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY (12-19-44) Jim and Marian Jordan star with Arthur Q. Bryan, Shirley Mitchell, Marlin Hurt, Harlow Wilcox, King’s Men, Billy Mills and the orchestra. Fib­ber snoops for his Christmas gifts in the hall closet. Teeny and the kids sing “‘Twas the Night before Christmas.” Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30 min).