VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, March 7, 1998

SUSPENSE (6-16-57) “Trial By Jury” starring Nancy Kelly with Parley Baer, Jerry Hausner, Lawrence Dobkin, Byron Kane, Shirley Mitchell and Kenny Delmar. A gambler, freed of a murder charge, blackmails his attorney. Sustaining, CBS. (25:46)

FRED ALLEN SHOW (10-18-42) Actor Orson Welles and singer Benay Venuta join Fred and Portland Hoffa, Minerva Pious, John Brown, Alan Reed, Al Goodman and the orchestra. Announcer is Arthur Godfrey. Orson and Fred appear in a Welles’ production of “Les Miserables.” AFRS rebroadcast. (29:00)

MR. AND MRS. NORTH 19-19-54) “Operation Murder” stars Richard Denning and Barbara Britton as Pam and Jerry North. A doctor is asked to guarantee that his patient will die. Sustaining, CBS. (29:09)

X MINUS ONE (2-27-571 “Real Gone” starring Al “Jazzbo” Collins as himself, a radio disc jockey whose friend has developed a new art form. This drama is based on an idea by Collins. Sustaining, NBC. (22:16)

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (4-23-46) Jim and Marian Jordan star as the McGees of Wistful Vista, featuring Gale Gordon as Mayor LaTrivia, Bill Thompson as Wallace Wimple, Arthur Q. Brian as Doc Gamble, Bea Benadaret as Mrs. Carstairs, with Harlow Wilcox, King’s Men, Billy Mills and the orchestra. McGee picks up a book on how to live to be 150 so he starts on a health food kick. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (29:25)

SIX SHOOTER (9-20-53) “Jenny Carver” star-ring James Stewart as Britt Ponsett in the first program in the series. Heading towards the town of Land Creek, Britt finds a wounded man and brings him to a cabin where a single woman lives by herself. Colman Home Heaters, NBC. (29:00) Rescheduled from an earlier date.