VARIETY OF SOUNDS

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, October 11, 2003

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (1-28-51) Jack nod the gang are in New York City for Jack’s sin and TV show. At a nice French restaurant, Jack and Mary Livingstone meet guest Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Cast: Phil Harris, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Dennis Day, Sportsmen, Bea Benaderet, Mel Blanc, Joe Kearns, Lucky Strike Cigarettes, CBS. (27 min)

* CAVALCADE OF AMERICA (11-13-44) “The Laziest Man in the World” starring Charles Laughton as Benjamin Franklin, who, in his later years, recalls his many inventions. Walter Huston is host-narrator. DuPont Company, NBC. (29 min)

ALDRICH FAMILY (12-16-48) Ezra Stone suit. as Henry with Jackie Kelk as Homer and House Jameson and Katharine Raht as Mr. and Mrs Aldrich. Sam’s peaceful evening is shattered by Henry’s last-minute preparations for a party he is to attend. Henry and Homer sing the Jell-O jingle at the opening and close of the program while Meredith Willson’s Talking People provide the middle commercial for the product. Jell-O, NBC. (29 min)

FRED ALLEN SHOW (10-4-39) Deadpan nclot Ned Sparks is Fred’s guest on this first show of the 1939-40 season. The sponsor has snot a “Radio Program Creator” to get the now as series under way with a modern show. I rad conducts a quiz segment with selected members of the studio audience. The Mighty Allen Art Players offer a spoof of the film “Stanley and Livingstone” called “Stanley and What’s His Name?” Cast features Portland Hoffa, Minerva Pious, Charlie Cantor, John Brown, Harry Von Zell, Merry Macs, Wynn Murray, Peter Van Steeden and the orchestra. Ipana, SalIpatica, NBC. (14 min & 17 min & 28 min)

THE SHADOW (2-22-48) “Nursery Rhyme Murders” starring Bret Morrison as Lamont Cranston aka “The Shadow” with Grace Matthews as the lovely Margo Lane. A deranged patient escapes from the Brookside Sanitarium and a series of murders begins, each with a nursery rhyme theme. Blue Coal, MBS. (23 min)