THE DANNY KAYE SHOW

In December 1944 it was announced that Pabst Sales Co. was dropping The Kenny Baker Show in favor of a vehicle for rising star Danny Kaye. Pabst had tried to sign established comedian Fred Allen for the show at a whopping cost of $25,000 per episode but the effort fizzled when Allen reportedly sniffing that he didn’t care to work for a beer company. Kaye agreed to a package costing the beer producer $16,000 per week, 2/3 the cost of Fred Allen.

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A factual yet incredible report of those New Yorkers who try to mix work in the city with country living and who almost always invariably end up behind the eight ball.

 Author: A. C. Spectorsky 

Duration: 28:21 

Starring: Eric Severied, John Larkin, Jan Miner

 Broadcast Date: 30th March 1956

Folks that write dictionaries must have a tough time with the word tolerance. I guess if you had to boil it down to just one other word it would have to be understanding. Some of them in Tombstone found that out when Luke Slaughter gave Chief Margono and a few of his Apache braves the loan of a couple of sections of his spread to try their hand at cattle raising. And Luke got chewed out plenty about it every time he went in to town. . . 

Duration: 24:16 

Starring: Sam Buffington

 Broadcast Date: 20th April 1958

Ian MacAndrews was the man who founded Lake City. He died five years ago and his life policy had been paid out but now it seemed that he had come back or his ghost had come back. 

Duration: 24:57

 Starring: Bob Bailey

 Broadcast Date: 18th May 1958

Official Detective ran from 1950 to 1956 and was a classic old time radio police drama starring Craig McDonnell as Detective Lieutenant Dan Britt and Tommy Evans as Sergeant Al Bowen....

The show features a crime from the start to the end from a drunk accused of murder to bride that murders her groom after discovering that he married her for her money. Even spinsters are unsafe at the hands of madmen and murderers. Plots in this police melodrama offer great twists and an unusual lineup of the usual suspects including a "gay sailor" as a suspect in murder in a butcher shop.

Bright young comedian from Canada, Alan Young plays the part of Bob Bennett a young stockbroker working for E.M Ralston the big bad wolf of Wall Street. He is sitting in his office chatting to a client over the phone when a beautiful woman enters his office. It is Gwinn Ralston his boss’s daughter and his love interest played by Anne Baxter. She has $10,000, which she collected for Seaside Charities but she promised to raise $20,000 and now wants Bob to invest it and double it in three days! 

Duration: 29:45 

Starring: Alan Young, Anne Baxter

 Broadcast Date: 14th January 1945

In Scotland Yard’s museum of murder here lies death dressed in its Sunday best. And here we find a jacket somewhat inconspicuous in its place on the shelf sleeveless and unstitched, a tragic relic of passion and violence. 

Duration: 26:06

 Starring: Ozzie Nelson

 Broadcast Date: 1952

Roland Young plays the part of an author of detective novels who invented his best part when his life was at stake. With Mr Young to play his long-suffering secretary is Miss Peggy Conklin. Written by John Dickson Carr. 

Duration: 28:53 

Starring: Roland Young 

Broadcast Date: 23rd March 1943

thel seemed to have a jinx on the horses and was always loosing. She considered herself hardluck Ethel until one day she went to see a fortune teller who told her she will be lucky very soon that she will win five times. But beware a handsome man who will chase her and catch her because he wants to kill her. . . 

Duration: 29:42 

Starring: Ruth Gilbert, Ann Thomas, Ralph Bell

 Broadcast Date: 8th June 1952

Robert Arden News Commentary ran from 1940 to 1942 and featured Robert Arden, who was a foreign correspondent. Arden made insightful comments about the current events of the time. Most of the episodes in this collection aired before the US became involved in WWII and offer a interesting and introspective pre-war American viewpoint. Once the USA became involved in WWI Arden reported on the news of the war in Europe and examined both side of the war, including the life history of Adolf Hitler.

SHOWS LIST

Pre-War Commentary and War News