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The Jack Benny Program
Nightmares of Fred
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny
Aired Jan. 31, 1937. Dig the HOT music with Phil Harris and his Orchestra.  Don't forget Mary, Don, Dennis. Benny may have been the first standup comedian, as the term is known, as well as one of the first to work with what became the situation comedy. He was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression. We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com(tm)

You Bet Your Life
The Secret Word is Spoon - Jan. 18, 1950.
Source info:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Bet_Your_Life
Source info:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx
You Bet Your Life was an American radio and television quiz show. The first and most famous version was hosted by Groucho Marx, of Marx Brothers fame, with the unflappable announcer and assistant George Fenneman. The show debuted on radio in 1947, then made the transition to the NBC television network in 1950. The television version was changed very little from the radio version. It was filmed before a studio audience, then slightly edited for television broadcast.

You Bet Your Life
The Secret Word is Milk - Jan. 11, 1950.
Source info:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Bet_Your_Life
Source info:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx
You Bet Your Life was an American radio and television quiz show. The first and most famous version was hosted by Groucho Marx, of Marx Brothers fame, with the unflappable announcer and assistant George Fenneman. The show debuted on radio in 1947, then made the transition to the NBC television network in 1950. The television version was changed very little from the radio version. It was filmed before a studio audience, then slightly edited for television broadcast.

You Bet Your Life
The Secret Word is Foot - May 17, 1950.
Source info:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Bet_Your_Life
Source info:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx
You Bet Your Life was an American radio and television quiz show. The first and most famous version was hosted by Groucho Marx, of Marx Brothers fame, with the unflappable announcer and assistant George Fenneman. The show debuted on radio in 1947, then made the transition to the NBC television network in 1950. The television version was changed very little from the radio version. It was filmed before a studio audience, then slightly edited for television broadcast.

Life Of Riley
Most Popular Boy - December 3, 1944
Source info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Riley
The show began as a proposed Groucho Marx radio series, The Flotsam Family, but the sponsor balked at what would have been essentially a straight head-of-household role for the comedian. Then producer Irving Brecher saw Bendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in the movie The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942). The Flotsam Family was reworked with Bendix cast as blundering Chester A. Riley, riveterat a California aircraft plant, and his frequent exclamation of indignation---What a revoltin development this is!---became one of the most famous catch-phrases of the 1940s. The radio series also benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby Digger O'Dell (John Brown), the friendly undertaker.

Abbott and Costello
Thanksgiving Dinner - Nov 25, 1943
Source info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello
In 1951 they moved to television--first as one of the rotating hosts of The Colgate Comedy Hour (Eddie Cantor and Bob Hope were among the others). Beginning in 1952, The Abbott and Costello Show. was a half-hour series loosely adapted from their radio show, casting the duo as unemployed wastrels. One of the show's running gags involved Abbott perpetually nagging Costello to get a job to pay their rent, while Abbott barely lifted a finger himself in that direction. The show featured Sidney Fields as their landlord and Hillary Brooke as a friendly neighbor who sometimes got involved in the pair's schemes.

Fibber McGee and Molly
The House Raffle - August 7, 1935
Source info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee#From_vaudeville_to_Smackout
Air date August 7, 1935. Info Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee#From_vaudeville_to_Smackout - Exactly what tumbled out of McGee's closet each time was never clear (except to the sound-effects man), but what signaled the end of the avalanche was always the same sound: a clear, tiny, household hand bell and McGee's inevitable postmortem. Naturally, "one of these days" never arrived. A good thing, too, in one famous instance: when burglars tied up McGee, he informed them cannily that the family valuables were in The Closet. Naturally, the burglars took the bait. And, naturally, they were buried in the inevitable avalanche, long enough for the police to come and cuff them and stuff them. Though on one or two episodes, including Too Much Energy, broadcast January 23, 1945, the closet turned up clean, to surprised hilarity. Fibber opened the door to the clean closet, only to be met with complete silence. As the audience chuckled slightly and most likely held their breath in anticipation, Molly explained that she had cleaned out the closet the day before. This was certainly not the end of the gag though, as the closet soon became cluttered once again, leading to many more comedic disasters. In due course, "Fibber McGee's Closet" entered the American vernacular as a catch phrase synonymous with household clutter. We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com

NEW -You Bet Your Life - Groucho Marx
The Secret Word is "Radio" Aired on October 26, 1949.
Source info:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Bet_Your_Life
Source info:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx
You Bet Your Life was an American radio and television quiz show. The first and most famous version was hosted by Groucho Marx, of Marx Brothers fame, with the unflappable announcer and assistant George Fenneman. The show debuted on radio in 1947, then made the transition to the NBC television network in 1950. The television version was changed very little from the radio version. It was filmed before a studio audience, then slightly edited for television broadcast. In 1960 it was renamed The Groucho Show and ran a further year. In the contest itself, contestants would choose among available categories and then try to answer a series of questions dealing with the chosen category. One popular category involved attempting to name a United States state after being given a number of cities and towns within the state. The format of the game at the beginning was that each couple started with $20. They were asked 4 questions in their given category. We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com

Abbott and Costello -
Lou's Engaged To Judy Canova - Jan 6, 1944
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello
Jan 6, 1944. Info Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Abbott and Costello Show was heard on radio throughout the 1940s. They began by hosting a summer replacement series for Fred Allen on NBC in 1940, then joined Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on The Chase and Sanborn Hour in 1941. During the same period, two of their films, Buck Privates and Hold That Ghost, were adapted for radio and presented on Lux Radio Theater. On October 8, 1942 they launched their weekly NBC show, sponsored by Camel cigarettes, moving five years later to ABC, the former NBC Blue Network. The additional cast and crew on that series included Sid Fields as the Melonheads, Artie Auerbrook as Ketsel, regulars Elvira Allman, Iris Adrian, Mel Blanc, Wally Brown, Sharon Douglas, Verna Felton, Lou Krogman, Pat McGeehan, Frank Nelson, Martha Wentworth and Benay Venuta.

Jack Benny
More Buck Benny Rides Again
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny
Aired Jan. 3, 1937. Info Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny           Jack Benny may have been the first standup comedian, as the term is known, as well as one of the first to work with what became the situation comedy. He was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression.

Abbott and Costello
Join The Merchant Marines - Jan 25, 1945
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello
Jan 25, 1945. Info Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On October 8, 1942 they launched their weekly NBC show, sponsored by Camel cigarettes, moving five years later to ABC, the former NBC Blue Network,). The additional cast and crew on that series included Sid Fields as the Melonheads, Artie Auerbrook as Ketsel, regulars Elvira Allman, Iris Adrian, Mel Blanc, Wally Brown, Sharon Douglas, Verna Felton, Lou Krogman, Pat McGeehan, Frank Nelson, Martha Wentworth and Benay Venuta.

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Fibber McGee and Molly - McGee's Hamburger Joint - March 7, 1939
more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee#From_vaudeville_to_Smackout
Fibber McGee and Molly spun two supporting characters off into their own shows. By far the most successful and popular was Harold Peary's Gildersleeve, spun into The Great Gildersleeve in 1941. This show introduced single parenthood of a sort to creative broadcasting: the pompous Gildersleeve now moved to Summerfield and raised his orphaned, spirited niece and nephew, while dividing his time between running his manufacturing business and (eventually) becoming the town water commissioner. In one episode, the McGees arrived in Summerfield for a visit with their old neighbour with hilarious results: McGee inadvertently learns Gildersleeve is engaged, and he practically needs to be chloroformed to perpetuate the secret a little longer. The Gildersleeve character was parodied in a Bugs Bunny cartoon called "Hare Conditioned", in which the rabbit distracts a menacing taxidermist by telling him that he sounds "just like that guy on the radio, the Great Gildersneeze!"
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Our Miss Brooks - The Hair Do - March 6, 1949.
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden
      more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Gordon
  Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks  Written with intelligent wit, Our Miss Brooks was considered groundbreaking for showing a woman who was neither a scatterbrained klutz nor a homebody but, rather, a working woman who transcended the actual or assumed limits towomen's working lives of the time. Connie Brooks was a realistic character with an unglamorised profession (she often joked, for example, about being underpaid, as many teachers were at the time) who showed women could be competent and self-sufficient outside their home lives without losing their femininity or theirhumanity.
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Our Miss Brooks - Custodian of Student Funds - Jan 30, 1949.
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden
      more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Gordon
  Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks   Our Miss Brooks remains Eve Arden's most identifiable and popular role, with numerous survivingrecordings of both the radio and television versions entertaining fans even today. A quarter century after the show ended, Arden told radiohistorian JohnDunning in an on-air interview just what the show and the role came to mean to her: "I originallyloved the theater. I still do. And I had always wantedto have a hit on Broadway that was created by me. You know, kind of like Judy Holliday and Born Yesterday. And I griped about ita little. And someone said to me, 'Do you realise that, if you had a hit on Broadway, probably a hundred or two hundred thousand people might have seen you in it, if you'd stayed in it long enough. And this way, you've been in Miss Brooks, everybody loves you, and you've been seen by millions.’ So, I figured I'd better shut up while I was ahead." We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com(tm)
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Fibber McGee and Molly - Hot Dogs and a Blowout - April 30, 1935
more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee#From_vaudeville_to_Smackout
None of the show's running gags was as memorable or enduring as The Closet---McGee's frequently opening and cacophonous closet, bric-a-brac clatteringdown and out and, often enough, over McGee's or Molly's heads. "I gotta get that closet cleaned out one of these days" was the usual McGee observation once the racket subsided.
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Jack Benny - The Tee Pee Hotel - Feb 23, 1941
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Livingstone
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marshall
The Jello Program from the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs California presents Jack Benny with Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, and Don Wilson. Opens with the Midnight Choo Choo song. Benny may have been the first standup comedian, as the term is known, as well as one of the first to work with what became the situation comedy. He was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression. We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com(tm)
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Our Miss Brooks - Conklin's Blood Pressure -
Eve Arden - Richard Crenna - Gale Gordon
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden
      more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Gordon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks The show hooked around Connie's daily relationships with Madison High School students, colleagues, andpompous principal Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), not to mention favourite student Walter Denton (future television and Rambo co-star Richard Crenna, who fashioned a higher-pitched voice to play the role) and biology teacher Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler, known at the time as Ira Grossel), the latterConnie's all-but-unrequited love interest, who saw science everywhere and little else anywhere. We offer you a free ticket to what was. Atrip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com(tm)
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Father Knows Best - Robert Young - A New Housekeeper
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Knows_Best
Aired June 22, 1950. Father Knows Best was set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret wasfirst portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyle The Anderson children were Betty (Rhoda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson) and Kathy (Norma Jean Nillson). Others in the cast were Eleanor Audley, Herb Vigran and Sam Edwards. Sponsored by General Foods, the series was heard Thursday evenings on NBC until November 19, 1953.
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Jack Benny - The Sponsors Like Herbert Marshall - Feb. 9, 1941
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Livingstone
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marshall
Benny may have been the first standup comedian, as the term is known, as well as one of the first to work with what became the situation comedy.
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Our Miss Brooks - Head of the English Department -  Eve Arden - Gale Gordon Jan. 16, 1949
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden
         more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Gordon
The show was built around Connie's daily relationships with Madison High School students, colleagues, and pompous principal Osgood Conklin played by Gale Gordon.
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Our Miss Brooks - Student Government Day - Eve Arden and Gale Gordon - Jan. 16, 1949
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden
         more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Gordon
Favorite student Walter Denton, future television and Rambo co-star Richard Crenna, fashioned a higher-pitched voice to play the role.
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The Life Of Riley - Halloween Haunted House -1944 - William Bendix
more info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Riley
Aired October 29, 1944. The Life Of Riley - Halloween Haunted House -1944 This program became a popular NBC radio comedy series in the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film and continued as a long-run TV series during the 1950s. We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com(tm)
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Our Miss Brooks - The Frog - 1949 - Eve Arden and Gale Gordon
more info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden
      more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Gordon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks The show hooked around Connie's daily relationships with Madison High School students, colleagues, and pompous principal Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), not to mention favourite student Walter Denton (future television and Rambo co-star Richard Crenna, who fashioned a higher-pitched voice to play the role) and biology teacher Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler, known at the time as Ira Grossel), the latter Connie's all-but-unrequited love interest, who saw science everywhere and little else anywhere. We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com(tm)
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The Life Of Riley - Plans To Build A House -1944 - William Bendix
more info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Riley
The show began as a proposed Groucho Marx radio series, The Flotsam Family, but the sponsor balked at what would have been essentially a straight head-of-household role for the comedian. Then producer Irving Brecher saw Bendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in the movie The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942). The Flotsam Family was reworked with Bendix cast as blundering Chester A. Riley, riveterat a California aircraft plant, and his frequent exclamation of indignation---What a revoltin development this is!---became one of the most famous catch-phrases of the 1940s. The radio series also benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby Digger O'Dell (John Brown), the friendly undertaker.
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Our Miss Brooks - Friday the 13th - 1949 - Eve Arden and Gale Gordon
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden
      more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Gordon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks The show hooked around Connie's daily relationships with Madison High School students, colleagues, and pompous principal Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), not to mention favourite student Walter Denton (future television and Rambo co-star Richard Crenna, who fashioned a higher-pitched voice to play the role) and biology teacher Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler, known at thetime as Ira Grossel), the latter Connie's all-but-unrequited love interest, who saw science everywhere and little else anywhere. We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com(tm)
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Baby Snooks with Fanny Brice - The Report Card
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Snooks
Aired - May 01, 1951 - In 1904, The Baby Snooks Show From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds,about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice did her Baby Snooks character as a 1912 vaudeville act. On February 29, 1936, the producers of theZiegfield Follies of the Air, where Brice already had a presence, asked her to fill empty airtime with a Snooks skit. Snooks' media career had begun, and the following year, she played Snooks on the Good News Show. In 1940, she became a regularcharacter on the Maxwell House Coffee Time, sharing the spotlight with monologist Frank Morgan.

Our Miss Brooks - April Fools
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden
      more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Gordon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks The show hooked around Connie's daily relationships with Madison High School students, colleagues, andpompous principal Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), not to mention favourite student Walter Denton (future television andRambo co-star Richard Crenna, who fashioned a higher-pitched voice to play the role) and biology teacher Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler, known at the time as Ira Grossel), the latter Connie's all-but-unrequited love interest, who saw science everywhere and little else anywhere. We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com(tm)
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Baby Snooks with Fanny Brice - BabySnooks Stays Home
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Snooks
- In 1904, The Baby Snooks Show    George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice did her Baby Snooks character as a 1912 vaudeville act. On February 29, 1936, the producers of the Ziegfield Follies of the Air, where Brice already had a presence, asked her to fill empty airtime with a Snooks skit. Snooks' media career had begun, and the following year, she played Snooks on the Good News Show. In 1940, she became a regular character on theMaxwell House Coffee Time, sharing the spotlight with monologist Frank Morgan.
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Our Miss Brooks - Bust of Ceaser
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden
      more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Gordon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks The show hooked around Connie's daily relationships with Madison High School students, colleagues, andpompous principal Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), not to mention favourite student Walter Denton (future television and Rambo co-star Richard Crenna, who fashioned a higher-pitched voice to play the role) and biology teacher Philip Boynton (JeffChandler, known at the time as Ira Grossel), the latter Connie's all-but-unrequited love interest, who saw science everywhere and little else anywhere. We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com(tm)
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Baby Snooks - Daddy's Old Flame
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Snooks
- In 1904, The Baby Snooks Show    George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice did her Baby Snooks character as a 1912 vaudeville act. On February 29, 1936, the producers of the Ziegfield Follies of the Air, where Brice already had a presence, asked her to fill empty airtime with a Snooks skit. Snooks' media career had begun, and the following year, she played Snooks on the Good News Show. In 1940, she became a regular character on theMaxwell House Coffee Time, sharing the spotlight with monologist Frank Morgan.
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Our Miss Brooks - Weekend at Crystal Lake
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden
      more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Gordon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks The show hooked around Connie's daily relationships with Madison High School students, colleagues, and pompous principal Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), not to mention favourite student Walter Denton (future television and Rambo co-star Richard Crenna,who fashioned a higher-pitched voice to play the role) and biology teacher Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler, known at the time as Ira Grossel), the latter Connie's all-but-unrequited love interest, who saw science everywhere and little else anywhere. We offer you a free ticket to what was. A trip back to a not so distant time. A time we call...RadioTimeZone.com(tm)
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Baby Snooks -The Barking Rabbit
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Snooks
In 1904, The Baby Snooks Show  George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice did her Baby Snooks character as a 1912 vaudeville act. On February 29, 1936, the producers of the Ziegfield Follies of the Air, where Brice already had a presence, asked her to fill empty airtime with a Snooks skit. Snooks' media career had begun, and the following year, she played Snooks on the Good News Show. In 1940, she became a regular character on the Maxwell House Coffee Time, sharing the spotlight with monologist Frank Morgan.
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Father Knows Best - Betty's Screen Test
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Knows_Best
Father Knows Best was set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyle The Anderson children were Betty (Rhoda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson) and Kathy (Norma Jean Nillson). Others in the cast were Eleanor Audley, Herb Vigran and Sam Edwards. Sponsored by General Foods, the series was heard Thursday evenings on NBC until November 19, 1953.
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Baby Snooks - Snooks is lost
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Snooks
In 1904, The Baby Snooks Show George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice did her Baby Snooks character as a 1912 vaudeville act. On February 29, 1936, the producers of the Ziegfield Follies of the Air, where Brice already had a presence, asked her to fill empty airtime with a Snooks skit. Snooks' media career had begun, and the following year, she played Snooks on the Good News Show. In 1940, she became a regular character on the Maxwell House Coffee Time, sharing the spotlight with monologist Frank Morgan.
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Father Knows Best - The Uncontrolled Dog
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Knows_Best
Father Knows Best was set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyle The Anderson children were Betty (Rhoda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson) and Kathy (Norma Jean Nillson). Others in the cast were Eleanor Audley, Herb Vigran and Sam Edwards. Sponsored by General Foods, the series was heard Thursday evenings on NBC until November 19, 1953.
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Father Knows Best - The Elusive Card Game
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Knows_Best
Father Knows Best was set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyle The Anderson children were Betty (Rhoda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson) and Kathy (Norma Jean Nillson). Others in the cast were Eleanor Audley, Herb Vigran and Sam Edwards. Sponsored by General Foods, the series was heard Thursday evenings on NBC until November 19, 1953.
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BabySnooks - Baby Fish Story
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Snooks
In 1904, The Baby Snooks Show George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice did her Baby Snooks character as a 1912 vaudeville act. On February 29, 1936, the producers of the Ziegfield Follies of the Air, where Brice already had a presence, asked her to fill empty airtime with a Snooks skit. Snooks' media career had begun, and the following year, she played Snooks on the Good News Show. In 1940, she became a regular character on the Maxwell House Coffee Time, sharing the spotlight with monologist Frank Morgan.
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