Comedy
Charlie Mc Carthy Show 44 01 30 Basil Rathbone
Charlie asks Bergen for money, but instead gets a lesson in inflation, and a story of King Midas. Guest Basil Rathbone lets Charlie help him…
Father Knows Best 51 07 05 Meaning Of Freedoms
On the morning after the July 4th holiday, the kids are all disappointed because they couldn't do what they wanted for the holiday. Jim has …
Father Knows Best 52 10 30 Carnival In Town
Today's the day of the Annual Founder's Day picnic and the family is all excited to go, but father insists on staying home and relaxing, so …
Fred Allen Texaco Star Theater 42 10 18 Orson Welles Les Miserables
Orson Welles visits the show, but not before his Personal Chief Technician arrives to check the microphone, his Acoustical Diagnostician has…
It Pays To Be Ignorant 44 09 22 Why Is Marriage Like Taking A Bath
Among the questions for the panelists are "What season comes after Summer?", and "Who was Queen of England during the Victori…
Lux Radio Theater 45 01 08 I Never Left Home
This Lux production, instead of their usual adaptation of a film, is based on a book by Bob Hope entitled "I Never Left Home",&nbs…
Orson Welles Radio Almanac 44 04 05 Guest Dennis Day
With the housing shortage, Orson tries to find an apartment. A jazz group plays "That's A Plenty." Orson rents a lawnmower from Ja…
Our Miss Brooks 49 02 06 Missing Electric Heater
Mr. Conklin is determined to crack down and institute more discipline at the school, but instead the day finds him locked in the store room …
Red Skelton Show 50 12 31 New Year's Puzzle
San Fernando Red explains his political plans for the new year. Willie Lump-Lump has been missing for 2 days and Rod O'Connor promises to fi…
Red Skelton Show 51 12 19 The Christmas Tree
The Skelton Scrapbook of Satire presents "The Little Christmas Tree", with Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid, Deadeye and Clem Kadiddleh…
The Bing Crosby Show 50 01 11 Guest Groucho Marx
First song by Peggy Lee and Bing is "Little Jack Frost, Get Lost." Groucho is upset over his introduction, and being in the dog ho…
This Is Your Life 50 03 08 Charlie Mc Carthy
Host Ralph Edwards and Edgar Bergen surprise Charlie McCarthy by presenting the story of his life, featuring guests who played a part in Cha…
The News Huddlines
The News Huddlines Selected episodes, 1979 to 2001. Old Time Radio Roy Hudd , June Whitfield and Chris Emmet take a humorous look at the lig…
Aulularia; or, The Concealed Treasure
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Euclio, a miserly old Athenian, has discovered a pot of gold in his house, Afraid it will be found and taken, he watches with the greatest a…
The Stolen Heiress
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Susanna Centlivre
Claiming that his son has died while away, Lord Gravello makes it appear that his daughter is now "the Heir to all [his] vast Revenues,…
The Beau's Duel, or A Soldier for the Ladies
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Susanna Centlivre
A comedy, this was Centlivre's second play, first presented in 1702, and in her prologue she has made a big deal of the fact that this play …
A Pleasant Commodie of Faire Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester, with the …
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William Shakespeare
By Shakespeare? Almost certainly not, but 1) it was found in a volume labeled Shakespeare in the library of Charles II, and 2) C. F. Tucker …
The Honey-Moon
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John Tobin
This Restoration-era romantic comedy was written by playwright John Tobin -- who had the great bad luck to have died on the very eve of beco…
Jack Benny Program 37 01 10 ( 240) Buck Benny Rides Again Ten
Jack gets a complaint from a man named Buckingham Benny, then the cast performs another of their countless Buck Benny skits.
Jack Benny Program 37 03 21 From New York
Jack invites his old friend, the Waukegan Mayor Mancel Talcott to the show. Along with the Mayor and the rest of the cast, Jack plays …