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You Bet Your Life - Secret Word Clock (10-27-60)
Groucho Marx matches wits with the American public in four episodes of this classic game show. Starting on the radio in 1947, You Bet Your Life made its television debut in 1950 and aired for 11 years with Groucho as host and emcee. Sponsored rather consp
A Date With Judy - Judy's Singing Debut (04-03-45)
A Date with Judy was a comedy radio series aimed at a teenage audience which had a long run from 1941 to 1950. The show began as a summer replacement for Bob Hope's show, sponsored by Pepsodent and airing on NBC from June 24 to September 16, 1941, with 14
My Friend Irma - Its All Relative (02-23-48)
My Friend Irma, created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard, was a top-rated, long-run radio situation comedy, so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated to films and television, while Howard scored with another radio comedy hit, Life with
Fibber McGee & Molly - Perilous Horoscope (04-08-52)
Fibber McGee and Molly premiered in 1935. The program struggled in the ratings until 1940, when it became a national sensation. Within three years, it was the top-rated program in America. Few radio shows were more beloved than Fibber McGee and Molly. The
The Amos & Andy Show - Kingfish Sells Andy A Trailer (03-25-47)
Amos 'n' Andy was a situation comedy popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s. The show began as one of the first radio comedy serials, written and voiced by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll and originating from station WMAQ in Chic
The Abbott & Costello Show - Wild West With Lynn Bari (12-16-43)
The Abbott and Costello Show mixed comedy with musical interludes (usually, by singers such as Connie Haines, Marilyn Maxwell, the Delta Rhythm Boys, Skinnay Ennis, and the Les Baxter Singers). Regulars and semi-regulars on the show included Artie Auerbro
Jack Benny Program - Artists & Models Abroad (06-12-38)
Benny had been only a minor vaudeville performer, but he became a national figure with The Jack Benny Program, a weekly radio show which ran from 1932 to 1948 on NBC and from 1949 to 1955 on CBS, and was consistently among the most highly rated programs d
The Hinds Honey and Almond Cream Program - Burns & Allen "All Promises Are Ficticious" (04-17-40)
Burns and Allen were an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen.Burns wrote most of the material, and played the straight man. Allen played a silly, addleheaded woman. Both attributed their success to the other, to the en
Mr. & Mrs. Blandings - Mr. Blandings On Television (02-22-51)
Mr. and Mrs. Blandings was based on the novels Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dreamhouse and Blandings' Way by Eric Hodgins, and the popular movie from 2 years earlier with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy as Jim and Murial. For the radio program, Cary Grant returns
Archie Andrews - Locked Out Of The House (11-06-48)
Archie Andrews, created in 1941 by Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, a long-run radio series, a syndicated comic strip and animation -- The Archie Show, a Saturday morning cartoon television