WBW Theater

We’re on the air with the school kids questionnaire! The Quiz Kids, five bright loveable youngsters ready for another difficult examination in the Alka-Seltzer School room of the year.

None of the children has seen or heard any of the questions in advance. All questions have been sent in by listeners and are presented by the chief quizzer Joe Kelly and the roll call today includes three boys and two girls who are: 9-year-old Joel Kupperman, 12-year-old Maureen Patrice Buckley, 15-year-old Harve Bennett Fischman, 13-year-old Judy Graham, and 5 year old Richard the riddler Lexler.

Starring: Joe Kelly, Harve Fischman, Joel Kupperman

Broadcast date: March 24, 1946

When Mrs O’Sullivan fails to answer he question her consequence is to be taken to an old haunted house. If she can identify the house she’ll win $100. Little does she know that the haunted house complete with sound effects of rattling chains and moans and groans and other ghostly Halloween effects is in fact her own home!

Mrs Peterson has to perform a consequence in which she has to have her fortune told. Backstage she is told that the fortune-teller is actually her husband in disguise and each time the fortune-teller is correct she has to give him a kiss. However the gag is that the disguised fortune-teller won’t be her husband but famous movie star bogeyman Boris Karloff!

Starring: Boris Karloff, Ralph Edwards

Broadcast Date: October 30, 1848

It’s a funny thing about people; farm people work hard so they can save enough money to move to the city and city people work hard so they can make enough money to move to a farm. John Granby was a city fellow before he bought his farm in Dove Ville though he doesn’t know the first thing about farming and now he has to decide which crop to plant, wheat, corn or potato!

Starring: Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Parley Baer, Louise Erickson

Broadcast Date: July 19, 1950

In this episode Lucy and Ricardo are determined to move out and end the lease they have with their friends Fred and Ethel Mertz. Lots of laughs come from Lucy's clever little schemes to make the Mertz's throw them out and this culminates in an incredibly loud finale. Unfortunately, things don't go quite as Lucy had planned.

Starring: Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball

Broadcast Date: February 26, 1952

Ten years ago the town’s most eligible bachelor George Cougat married socially prominent Elizabeth Elliott. The lavish wedding kept the society columns of newspapers all over the country in copy for weeks. After their Honeymoon George bought a stylish suburban house and took the first job that came along – fifth vice president of a bank. And now the Cougat’s are just George and Liz, two people who live together and like it. George says, “When I married Liz, she didn’t know a thing about keeping house, she couldn’t cook, she couldn’t sew, she couldn’t clean. But later she overcame the lack of domesticity in a most ingenious manner.” Liz says, “I got a maid”!

Starring: Lucille Ball

Broadcast Date: July 5, 1948

Hilarious comedy sketches and skit takes and quick fire banter with special guests. Also features music and singing from various artists.

Starring: Red Skelton

Broadcast Date: March 18, 1951

When Malvena announces her Mother is coming to visit it seems Topper will go to any lengths to get out of the situation, including faking his own death!

Starring: Roland Young

Broadcast Date: August 30, 1945

“We can’t tell you how many hundreds of thousands of American’s there are in the British Isles but it’s going to be the greatest migration of free fighting men the world has ever seen. Men who have come straight through the battle of the Atlantic through Europe’s one piece of free soil where free men may still fight for freedom. They came to fight; this is not their final destination.”

Starring: Joseph Julian

Broadcast Date: August 31, 1942

Pat Abbott is hired to investigate the death of a man in a car wreck on Locust Avenue last night. He went right off the road, over a rocky cliff. He was alone in the car and wasn't speeding as the speedometer was smashed at 32 miles per hour. The insurance company, California Fidelity, thinks it was caused by a fault in the car as it had been recently purchased, but Pat Abbot suspects murder...

Starring: Les Damon, Claudia Morgan, Ann Corio, Mandel Kramer, David Pfeffer

Broadcast Date: January 23, 1955

Ozzie is writing a letter, and he wants a bit of silence whilst he concentrates. But first he needs a dictionary, because he doesn't trust Harriet's spelling. Then when he finds it, he insists that he already had it written down correctly because he already knew how to spell it. Likely story, huh? That was a couple of days ago, and right now, they're at breakfast where Ozzie is reading a letter published in the newspaper to the family...

Starring: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson

Broadcast Date: November 3, 1946