VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, July 31, 1999

BROADWAY IS MY BEAT (1950s) Larry Thor stars as New York Police Detective Danny Clo­ver who inspects a burglar alarm at a florist shop and finds a body in a bed of flowers. Charles Calvert is Sgt. Gino Tartaglia and the cast includes Irene Tedrow, Jerry Hausner, Howard McNear, Edgar Barrier, Herb Vigran, Jack Krushen. AFRS rebroadcast. (28 min) Larry Thor is the Chrysler Airtemp announcer on Fibber McGee and the Good Old Days of Radio.

FIBBER MC GEE AND THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF RADIO (6-9-74) Jim Jordan who stars as Fib­ber McGee and Chuck Schaden, who plays him­self as a fan of radio, are joined by Gale Gordon who recreates his role of Mayor LaTrivia in the fi­nal program in this seven-part series. The Saturday Programs: Let’s Pretend; Judy Canova; Grand Cen­tral Station; Life of Riley; Truth or Consequences. Larry Thor announces. Chrysler Airtemp Air Conditioning. (50 min in two seg­ments)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (2-15-74) Actors Jim Jordan, Hal Peary, Gale Gordon and writer Phil Leslie recall the Fibber McGee and Molly pro­gram in a roundtable conversation with Chuck Schaden recorded in Hollywood, California fol­lowing the taping of the final episode of Fib­ber McGee and the Good Old Days of Radio. Jim Jordan died in 1988 at the age of 91; Hal Peary died in 1985 at the age of 80; Gale Gordon died in 1995 at the age of 89; Phil Leslie died in 1988 at the age of 79. (29 min)

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (12-26-39) Molly’s old boyfriend Otis Cadwallader (Gale Gordon) visits Wistful Vista. To impress him, Fibber has Gildersleeve (Hal Peary) act as the McGee’s butler.Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30 min) Jim Jordan calls this his favorite McGee show.

RECOLLECTIONS AT THIRTY (12-12-56) Pro­gram 21: Lanny Ross; Baron Munchausen and Rudy Vallee; Floyd Gibbons; Carmen Miranda; Art Tatum; Bergen and McCarthy with John Barrymore. Sustaining, NBC. (26 min)