It’s another episode filled with classic Christmas episodes of your favorite shows from the Golden Age of radio, including THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM, ROCKY FORTUNE, and DRAGNET. Plus, we’ll have a radio adaptation of Miracle on 34th Street as first heard on THE SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE
Episode Segments:
H360: The Jack Benny Program Star Gazing: Lisa and Carl cover the latest in showbiz and celebrity news.
OTR Comedy: The Jack Benny Program 12-18-49 “Christmas Shopping” starring Jack Benny and all his gang. Jack goes Christmas shopping for his sister Florence and Mary buys Jack a pencil sharpener. Cast includes: Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Phil Harris and Gerald Mohr. Don Wilson (ann). Spon. by Lucky Strike. CBS.
H360: Rocky Fortune Game: Beat the Host. Lisa moderates as two H360 listeners win prizes and try to answer more multiple-choice trivia questions than Carl. Subject this week: Samuel L. Jackson, born December 21st, 1948.
OTR Detective: Rocky Fortune 12-22-53 “The Plot to Murder Santa Claus” starring Frank Sinatra. There’s a plot to murder Santa Claus, believe it or not! Cast includes: Theodore Von Eltz, Mary McGovern, Kay Stewart, Frank Gerstle, James Nusser, Barney Phillips and Bill Justine. Sustaining. NBC.
H360: Miracle on 34th Street : National movie critic, Sarah Adamson, reviews two films that recently released, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2” and “The Big Short.”
OTR Drama: The Screen Director’s Playhouse 12-23-49 “Miracle on 34th Street” starring Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood. The Christmas classic about the department store Santa Claus who thought he was the real thing…and proved it! Cast includes: Willard Waterman with George Seaton (screen director). Sustaining. NBC.
H360: Dragnet Christmas Sketch: Stan Freberg: 11-30-53 “Christmas Dragnet” starring Stan Freberg and Daws Butler.
OTR Detective: Dragnet 12-22-49 “The .22 Rifle for Christmas” starring Jack Webb. A young boy named Stanley Johnstone is missing, and so is the .22 caliber rifle he was going to receive for Christmas. Cast includes: Barton Yarborough, Herb Butterfield, William Johnstone and Peggy Webber. Hal Gibney and George Fenneman (anns). Spon. by Fatima (Cigarette commercials deleted). NBC.