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I have decided to put together a block of Jack Benny's Christmas Episodes for your enjoyment. Christmas Shopping Cactus Christmas Tree Christmas Gopher Jack Buys A Wallet for Don for Christmas Trimming the Christmas Tree Christmas Show With Fred Allen Jack's Christmas Party Day After Christmas

It’s Christmas Eve on Broadway, creatures are stirring in police H.Q. In the office of Danny Clover Nick Norman the ex-con is released after 15 years in Jail and Detective Danny Clover has got him a job as Santa Claus at the Police Kids Christmas Party. However he doesn’t make it to the party as two guys in a Black Sedan abduct him.  Duration: 29:34  Starring: Larry Thor  Broadcast...

Archie is in a cranky mood over Christmas and has just locked up when he notices a stranger in the bar who knows his name. The stranger takes Archie out for a walk and forces him to look into his heart for faith and human kindness.  Duration: 28:55  Starring: Ed Gardner  Broadcast Date: 23rd December 1948

Granville Merryweather and Fennis Finny want to join the army claiming that they’re answering the call to the colors, but you could put it another way, they’re starving to death. But the kind of recruits that are coming to join the army these days are dregs, failures and fugitives.  Duration: 27:44  Starring: Raymond Burr, Harry Bartell, Parley Baer, John Dehner  Broadcast Date: 8th...

It is 48 hours before Christmas. Archie Goodwin receives a telephone call from Santa Claus! He is coming around to Nero’s office at 8pm. Two Santa’s have been murdered and this Santa is very worried. It seems that someone is trying to murder all the Santa Claus’s of Carlisle Avenue and they seem to be succeeding!  Duration: 27:54  Starring: Sydney Greenstreet  Broadcast Date: 22nd D...

Francis Xavier Wick the columnist, the gossip, the collector of rounded anecdotes the man who this year was celebrating Christmas in January and why apparently because he likes to collect presents too. He wouldn’t miss Christmas for anything and nor would George Valentine. By now he’s learned enough about the man in the Santa Claus suit to know that his vast collection of friends and retainers are...

Well the holiday season is practically with us. To our Miss Brooks who teaches English Madison High School it means more than just a respite from a difficult school term. . .  Duration: 27:42  Starring: Eve Arden  Broadcast Date: 18th December 1949

It’s Saturday afternoon as we look in on the Andrews home and at the moment we find Mr. Andrews alone in the living room sitting in his favorite armchair reading the newspaper when the telephone rings. It’s Veronica and she mentions to Mr. Andrews that she’s going to do her Christmas shopping at Stacy’s, which reminds him he needs to do his Christmas shopping. It seems that everyone has decided to...

Dr. Frank C. Baxter who was a professor of English at the University of Southern California interviews the distinguished author William Shakespeare as if he were alive in 1956 to ascertain who wrote the works of Shakespeare.  Duration: 30:10  Starring: Ben Wright, Hans Conried, Ramsey Hill, Jay Novello, William Conrad  Broadcast Date: 24th February 1956

Let's spend Christmas with George Burns and Gracie Allen.

Madame Ottilie Tibault, owner of a prosperous little cafe in the French quarter of New Orleans, gives the $25,000 she has been keeping under her mattress to Gaspard Morin, one of her customers, for "investment".   But, before he can tell her what he ahs invested in, Morin dies.   O. Henry agress to help Madame Tibault find out what happened to the money.   His most pr...

It was just twenty four hours before the commencement of The Battle of the Marne In the first winter of World War 1. Holmes and Watson found themselves in the front seat of an army staff car. They were taken to General Morris’s Headquarters four miles from the front line. The General’s brother Maitland and his wife, both famous Shakespearian actors, accompanied them. They were to give a performanc...

Cain Vestel is a musician who came in to Dodge last night and is leaving for Arizona tomorrow. Cain, a very nice fellow is suffering from consumption and the Doc said he would be dead in a couple of months.  Duration: 30:02  Starring: William Conrad  Broadcast Date: 3rd October 1952

In a couple of weeks Wilma Lord is going to marry John Waring a man a lot older than she is and she wants nothing to happen to that marriage and hires Barry Craig to make sure that no one is murdered!  Duration: 29:57  Starring: William Gargan  Broadcast Date: 7th May 1951

Ellery Queens Minute Mysteries are exactly that, a one minute mystery. A problem is posed for you to work out the answer to but you only have a few seconds to work it out befor Ellery Queen gives you the answer. It'll only take a minute out of your time ... enjoy these really minute long mysteries.   See if you can beat Ellery Queen to the punch before the minute is up.

The Bishop  “So long as these problems are not solved, so long as ignorance and poverty remain on earth, these words cannot be useless”. These words set forth the soul and spirit of one of the world’s great literacy masterpieces, Les Miserables. Out of the depth of his pity for suffering mankind Victor Hugo drew a compelling story, one that will live so long as bewildered humanity shall conti...

Johnny Dollar phoned Lieutenant Joe Benson on behalf of Federal Underwriters to get a report on the National Savings and Loans hold-up. The watchman died, shot three times but lived long enough to give a make on one of the four guys who heisted the place. . .  Duration: 24:44  Starring: John Lund  Broadcast Date: 21st April 1953

Happy Thanksgiving.

All of Jack Benny's Thanksgiving shows in one great holiday block.

Well last Thursday was Thanksgiving Day and most of us realize that we have quite a bit to be thankful for even our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School. . .  Duration: 28:56  Starring: Eve Arden  Broadcast Date: 27th November 1949

While Mr Aldrich is having turkey troubles of his own the duck, which Henry has been forced to buy for, the class turkey run has flown the coup and is causing mayhem in the school!  Duration: 25:33  Starring: Ezra Stone, Jackie Kelk  Broadcast Date: 25th November 1948

Gracie couldn’t make it to the show on account of her Grandaddy being sick and it’s not that George needs Gracie to do the show but he decides if she can’t come in he’ll to go to her house. George tells Gracie that tonight’s show is about Thanksgiving and then has to explain to her what it is!  Duration: 28:57  Starring: George Burns, Gracie Allen  Broadcast Date: 18th November 1940

Before the story begins the old Ranger tells us, for those that don’t know, that a Burro is the same as a donkey or a jackass, they stand about four foot high with furry coats and long ears and with a tail like a piece of rope frayed at the end. The scene opens in the mining camp, it’s the year 1905. Walter Scott Smith known as Smitty and his partner Owen Martin are negotiating with a fellow for a...

"The Case Of The Priceless Prose". Sponsored by: Old Dutch Cleanser, Del Rich Margarine. Stolen manuscripts and a few murders thrown in. Clever twist at the end...you won't guess whodunit. + There has been a robbery at Bancroft hall the ancestral home of famous writer Joshua Bancroft. His two great grand daughters shared the home now and Victoria was killed in the robbery and Julia Bancroft badly...

A fear of animals is not easily understood by people who don't share the same phobia, as Julia Smolett discovers when her husband attempts to bring a fearsome dog into their home.   After being terrorized by the fierce dog, she decides to make the four- legged creature her friend, thus making the animal turn on its master. Duration: 41:49 Directed by: Himan Brown Written by: Henry Sleasa...