SALUTE TO JIM BACKUS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, June 9, 1984

SAD SACK (8-15-46) Herb Vigran stars as Sad Sack, with Jim Backus as Chester Fenwick. Sad  runs for mayor when the Liberty Bell wants a veteran on the ticket. Cast includes Sandra Gould, Patsy Moran, Henny Backus,  Peter Leeds. Old Gold, CBS. (11:40; 14:25)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be JIM BACKUS whose career spans radio, television and movie pictures. We’ll visit with him in his home in Bel Air, California in a conversation recorded on March 20,1984. (22:40; 13:33)

ALAN YOUNG SHOW (1-17-47) Alan needs a new suit, but doesn’t get any help from Hubert Updyke III, played by Jim Backus. Cast includes Hans Conried as ham actor Jonathan Mildew. Ilona, Minit Rub, NBC. (10:15; 10:20; 10:20)

SUSPENSE (8-19-62) “Pages From a Diary” starring Jim and Henny Backus. A man with a dual personality records his thoughts in a diary, admitting that he is two people. A tour de force for Jim Backus. Sustaining, CBS. (19:15)

MEL BLANC SHOW (5-6-47) Mel suggests his girl friend’s father purchase some land for in­vestment. Cast includes Mary Jane Croft, Joe Kearns, Hans Conried, Elvia Allman, Earle Ross, and Jim Backus as Hartley Benson, the town’s Brummel. Colgate, Halo, CBS. (7:55)

PENNY SINGLETON SHOW (1950) Penny, a young widow with two kids, is worried about a thief in the neighborhood. Cast includes Jim Backus as Horace Wiggins, her partner in a real estate firm; Gale Gordon as Judge Grundell; Boa Benaderet as Margaret, the cook. Sustain­ing, NBC. (12:47; 14:00)

SUSPENSE (4-19-59) “See How He Runs” starring Jim Backus as a blind newsstand owner who “witnesses” a murder. Sustaining, CBS. (18:15)