ANNUAL THANKSGIVING SHOW

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, November 21st, 1998

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (11-23-47) First of two consecutive and related shows. Jack and Mary Livingstone go to the market to buy a turkey for their Thanksgiving Day party. Cast includes Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Mel Blanc, Artie Auerbach. This program features one of the greatest Lucky Strike mid-show commercials with Jack and the Sportsmen Quartet. Lucky Strike Cigarettes, NBC. (27:00)

READER’S DIGEST RADIO EDITION (3-6-47) “Pete’s Thanksgiving” starring Otto Kruger as an immigrant from Greece who hopes to open a restaurant on Thanksgiving Day, but meets with resistance from the local businessmen’s organization. Richard Kollmar hosts. Hallmark Cards, CBS. (29:40)

DURANTE-MOORE SHOW (11-22-46) “The Nose and the Haircut,” Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore present a Thanksgiving opera with Jimmy as Miles Standish and Garry as John Alden. Singer Susanne Ellers is Priscilla. Roy Bargey and the orchestra; announcer Howard Petri. Rexall, CBS. (28:40)

EDDIE CANTOR SHOW (1 1-22-44) On the day before Thanksgiving, Eddie finds that he can’t get a big enough turkey unless he buys a live one. So he hires guest Alan Ladd, screen tough guy, to kill the bird. Cast includes Bert Gor­don, Leonard Seuss, Nora Martin, Harry Von Zell. Sal Hepatica, Trushay, NBC. (18:26)

HEARTBEAT THEATRE (11-24-63) “John Ball’s Thanksgiving” with Victor Rodman and Bill Idleson. A well-traveled philosopher passes on some thoughts about Thanksgiving. C. P. MacGregor is host. Salvation Army, Syndi­cated. (24:40)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (11-30-47) Second of two consecutive shows. Jack recalls the day before Thanksgiving when he bought a live turkey and couldn’t kill it himself. He tells Rochester to do it, then dreams he’s on trial for killing the bird! Cast includes Mary Living­stone, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Eddie Anderson, Bea Benaderet, Frank Nelson, Artie Auerbach. Another great Sportsmen com­mercial with Jack, Don and Phil joining the quartet in “That’s What / Like About the South.” Lucky Strike Cigarettes, NBC. (25:33)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST is MELVIN E. GILES who has written a nostalgic, biographical novel en­titled George Street, Our Street, a Poor Family’s Richest Years in Chicago.