VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, April 11, 2009

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (4-17-49) Jack and Mary take a stroll down Wilshire Boulevard on Easter Sunday. This is the first of Jack’s Easter Parade shows. Cast: Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Artie Auerbach, Frank Nelson, Mel Blanc. Lucky Strike Cigarettes, CBS. (26 min)

SAD SACK (8-15-46) Herb Vigran stars as the returned World War II veteran made famous in the pages of the U.S. Army Yank magazine. The Liberty Bell party wants Sad Sack to run for mayor of the town. Cast: Jim Backus, Patsy Moran, Sandra Gould, Ken Christy, Bill Conrad, Peter Leeds. Old Gold Cigarettes, CBS. (27 min)

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (5-16-41) Audition program for the series. Gildersleeve, who runs the girdle factory in Wistful Vista, goes to Summerfield to visit his nephew and niece and become administrator of his brother’s estate. He gets off on the wrong foot with Judge Hooker. Cast: Harold Peary, Earle Ross, Frank Nelson, Walter Tetley, Lurene Tuttle. Harlow Wilcox announces. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (32 min)

HAROLD PEARY SHOW (8-23-50) Audition program for the series. Harold Peary stars as Honest Harold, the Homemaker host of a radio show in Melrose Springs. He’s too honest and tells his listeners that his new spon­sor makes terrible shampoo. Cast: Olan Soule, Joe Kearns, Gloria Holiday, Sharon Douglas, Norma Jean Nilsson, Anne Whitfield, Jane Morgan. CBS. (33 min)

WILD BILL HICKOK (5-27-51) Guy Madison stars as Wild Bill with Andy Devine as Jingles B. Jones. Ranchers are angry and a “first-class war” is about to break out when a rail­road spur comes through the town of Bitter Creek. First show in the series. Kellogg’s Corn Pops, MBS. (25 min)

THE SHADOW (3-28-48) “Death and the Easter Bonnet” stars Bret Morrison as La­mont Cranston with Grace Matthews as the lovely Margo Lane. Margo buys an expensive hat for Easter but now the shopkeeper wants it back. Announcer is Andre Baruch. Blue Coal, MBS. (29 min).