RADIO TO WRAP, BAKE AND DECORATE BY

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, December 19th, 1998

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (12-25-46) Gildy in­vites friends to his home for a party on Christ­mas Day. Harold Peary stars. Kraft Foods, NBC. (30:08)

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (12-21-48) Jim and Marian Jordon star as the McGees of Wist­ful Vista with Gale Gordon, Bill Thompson, Arthur Q. Brian, Harlow Wilcox, King’s Men, Billy Mills and the orchestra. McGee gets a Christmas card signed “Love, Elizabeth” but he doesn’t know who Elizabeth is! This pro­gram is preceded by the last few minutes of the Bob Hope Show, same date, with Hope mentioning he’ll be in Berlin for Christmas to entertain the troops of the Berlin Airlift. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (31 :50)

CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE (12-23-38) “A Christ­mas Carol” starring Orson Welles as narrator and Ebeneezer Scrooge in the fourth annual presentation of Charles Dickens’ holiday clas­sic. Once again, the miserly old skinflint learns the true meaning of Christmas. Cast features Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Hiram Sherman, Frank Readick, Alice Frost, Arthur Anderson. Bernard Herrmann and the orchestra. Ernest Chapel announces. Campbell Soup, CBS. (32:47; 27:12)

BOB HOPE SHOW (12-28-48) “By transcrip­tion,” it’s Bob’s Christmas Day show from Berlin as presented to the troops of the Berlin Airlift. Guests are General Jimmy Dolittle, songwriter Irving Berlin, actress Jinx Falkenberg, singers Bill Farrell and Jane Harvey, comedienne Irene Ryan. Irving Berlin sings “Operation Vittles,” a special song he wrote for the Airlift. Swan Soap, NBC. (29:28)

SUSPENSE (12-22-57) “Dog Star” starring Evelyn Rudi as a little girl who wants a dog for Christmas and who receives one in an unex­pected way. AFRS rebroadcast. (18:37)