RADIO TO GET INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT BY

Originally broadcast WDCB
Saturday, November 26th, 2005 

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (12-1-48) Harold Peary stars as Gildy, who tries to get a holiday job for Leroy (Walter Tetley). With Lillian Randolph as Birdie, Mary Lee Robb as Marjorie, Earle Ross as Judge Hooker and Richard LeGrand as Peavey. Kraft Foods, NBC. (30 min)

CINNAMON BEAR (1937) Chapter 9. The Roly Poly Policeman. (13 min)

BROADWAY IS MY BEAT (12-24-49) Larry Thor stars as police detective Danny Clover. Christmas Eve complications arise after an ex-con arrives to play Santa for the Police Athletic League party for kids. Cast: Charles Calvert, Gil Stratton Jr., Howard McNear, Hal March, Shep Menken, Peggy Webber. Sustaining, CBS. (29 min)

CINNAMON BEAR (1937) Chapter 10. Professor Whiz, the educated owl, and Fraidy Cat. (13 min)

CINNAMON BEAR (1937) Chapter 11. Fee Foo, the friendly giant. (13 min)

HOTPOINT HOLIDAY HOUR (12-25-49) ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner” starring Jack Benny as Sheridan Whiteside with an all-star supporting cast: Charles Boyer, Gene Kelly, Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck and Rosalind Russell. Henry Fonda narrates this radio ver­sion of the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart Broadway hit and screen smash. A pompous, cantankerous, megalomaniac broadcaster is confined by a broken hip to a normal Midwestern home, which he turns into bedlam. Host is John Garfield; announcer is Marvin Miller; director is Mel Ferrer. Hotpoint Products, CBS. (19 min & 18 min & 18 min)

CINNAMON BEAR (1937) Chapter 12. The Rhyming Rabbit and Bumble Bee. (13 min)