RADIO ON RADIO – PART 2

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, January 30th, 1999

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (4-14-48) Harold Peary stars as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the Water Commissioner, who is invited to talk about the Summerfield Water Department on the radio. Kraft Foods, NBC. (30:12)

DENNIS DAY SHOW (1949) Dennis takes a job selling radios. Bea Benaderet, John Brown, Dink Trout. AFRS rebroadcast. (28:10)

THE WHISTLER (9-8-461 “Brief Pause for Mur­der” stars Fahey Flynn as a radio announcer who plots to kill his wife. Cast features Beverly Younger, Ken Griffin, and Everette Clarke as “the Whistler.” Meister Brau Beer, WBBM Chicago. (28:25)

VILLAGE STORE (5-27-48) Jack Carson stars with Eve Arden, Verna Felton, Dave Willock, Eileen Woods, the Starlighters, Frank DeVol and the orchestra, announcer Hy Averback. Jack wants to become a partner in a radio station. Sealtest/Kraft, NBC. (28:37)

ADVENTURES OF MAISIE (1949) Ann South­ern stars as Maisie Revere, who meets a Sul­tan and escapes death by telling him the story of a radio soap opera. Syndicated. (28:00)

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (1-7-47) Fibber has a new radio and when he hears a news­cast about some escaped criminals, he decides to defend himself. Jim and Marian Jordan star with Bill Thompson, Arthur Q. Brian, Gale Gordon, Jim Backus, Harlow Wilcox, King’s Men, Billy Mills and the orchestra. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30:00)