THIS DAY, THAT YEAR

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, April 1, 2000

LIFE WITH LUIGI (4-1-52) J. Carroll Naish stars as Luigi Basco, with Alan Reed as Pasquale who plays an April Fool’s joke to try to get Luigi to marry Rosa. Wrigley’s Gum, CBS. (31 min)

FORT LARAMIE (4-1-56) “Lost Child” starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince of the U. S. Cavalry, with Vic Perrin as Sgt. Gorce. A settler’s child is kidnapped in an Indian raid. Sustaining, CBS. (28 min)

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (4-1-41) Jim and Marian Jordan star as the McGees of Wist­ful Vista. When Molly returns from a shop­ping trip she discovers her car is missing its left front fender. Cast includes Isabel Randolph as Mrs. Uppington; Harold Peary as Gilder­sleeve; Bill Thompson as Horatio K. Boomer; King’s Men; Billy Mills and the orchestra; announcer Harlow Wilcox. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30 min)

YOUR HIT PARADE (4-1-44) The top tunes of the week as presented by Frank Sinatra, Joan Edwards, the Hit Paraders and Mark Warnow and the orchestra. Kenny Delmar announces. AFRS rebroadcast. (30 min)

SUSPENSE (4-1-62) “You Died Last Night” starring Robert Readick and Santos Ortega. In the midst of the Atomic Age, a man meets up with a space traveler from a planet 15 Light Years away. Sustaining, CBS. (23 min.

MEL BLANC SHOW (4-1-47) Mel makes an April Fool phone call to his girl friend’s father, telling him he is going to inherit a million dol­lars. Cast includes Alan Reed, Mary Jane Croft, Joe Kearns, Hans Conried, Jim Backus. Col­gate products, CBS. (24 min)