New Years Day Comedy

First a look at this day in History.

Then Jack Benny, originally broadcast January 1, 1939, 86 years ago, Goodbye 1938,  Hello 1939.   Mary reads a New Year's poem. The show features the first performance of, "The New Tenant," which was to become an annual New Year's fantasy. 

Followed by Our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden, originally broadcast January 1, 1950, 75 years ago, Babysitting on New Years Eve. A New Year's Eve story. Miss Brooks is stuck babysitting while everyone else is going out to a party. Motion Picture Daily and Fame magazines present an award to Eve Arden as the best radio comedienne of 1949. 

Then The Great Gildersleeve starring Harold Peary, originally broadcast January 1, 1947, 78 years ago, New Years Ball.  Gildersleeve resolves to be a bad boy! Dressed as a pirate, he goes to the costume ball without a date.

Followed by Gunsmoke starring William Conrad, originally broadcast January 1, 1956, 69 years ago, Puckett’s New Year.  Jed Larner has left Ira Pucket out on the prairie, where his foot becomes badly frozen and is cut off by Doc. Feeling that he's less than a man, Pucket decides to rob a bank!

Finally Lum and Abner, originally broadcast January 1, 1945, 80 years ago, New Years Day at Abners. While waiting for New Year's Day dinner, Lum, Abner and Ulysses opine how the womenfolk don't really appreciate the holidays!

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