RADIO TO PLAN YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST BY

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, December 5th, 1998

RED SKELTON SHOW (12-17-46) The Skelton Scrapbook of Satire presents “Department Stores” with Willy Lump-Lump, Clem Kadiddlehopper, and Junior, the Mean Little Kid. Cast features GeGe Pearson, Anita Ellis, Verna Felton, Pat McGeehan, Wonderful Smith, David Forrester and the orchestra, Rod O’Connor. Raleigh Cigarettes, NBC. (27:35)

ELGIN CHRISTMAS PARTY (12-25-44) A Christmas Day radio extravaganza starring Don Ameche as host of this third annual two hour holiday special for servicemen and women around the world (via short wave) and all the folks at home. An all-star show with Ginny Simms, Bob Hope, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bing Crosby, Carmen Miranda, Jack Benny, Vera Vague, the Army Air Force’s “Swing Wing,” Charioteers, concert violinist Joseph Szigeti, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Les Paul and his Trio, Louis Silvers and the or­chestra and chorus. Elgin Watch Company, CBS. (24:44; 27:48; 26:51; 37:15)

DRAGNET 112-22-53) Jack Webb stars as Detective Sgt. Joe Friday with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith in the program’s tradi­tional Christmas story. The statue of the in­fant Jesus is missing from the Nativity Scene at the Mission Church. Friday and Smith in­vestigate. NBC. (26:33)