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old time radio for Christmas - Phil Harris and Alice Faye 12/19/1948 (Original Post) rurallib Dec 2019 OP
Our family listened to the 40s Sunday nite radio line-up--Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Edgar Bergen, Fr bobbieinok Dec 2019 #1
I am not quite old enough to remember the glory days of radio rurallib Dec 2019 #2
I only realized in college how weird a ventriloquist like Edgar Bergen on radio is bobbieinok Dec 2019 #3

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
1. Our family listened to the 40s Sunday nite radio line-up--Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Edgar Bergen, Fr
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 08:20 PM
Dec 2019

Fred Allen

That Sunday radio list of shows was a really big deal at our house

On different evenings (I think) we listened to
Fiber McGee and Molly, George Burns and Gracie Allen, the Great Gildersleve

Other times there was Bobby Benson and the BBarB Boys, Sergeant King of the Northwest Mounties, The Shadow (Knows)

And Saturday afternoon opera broadcast directly from the Metropolitan with discussion of the plot and performance

And was it Satuday evening that there were the broadcasts of musical comedy shiws--Oklahoma, Carousel, Annie Get Your Gun

rurallib

(62,423 posts)
2. I am not quite old enough to remember the glory days of radio
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 09:52 PM
Dec 2019

We listen to OTR on our C Crane internet radio every night. The station we listen to plays only Fibber McGee an the Great Gildersleeve.

But they do have occasional promos for other shows. Fibber was on Tuesday for most of its very long run for what I can gather.

Wikipedia has TV block schedules from the middle 40s but doesn't have block radio schedules. Maybe you can dig around and find something.

Here is a block TV schedule from 1949/1950:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949–50_United_States_network_television_schedule

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
3. I only realized in college how weird a ventriloquist like Edgar Bergen on radio is
Tue Dec 24, 2019, 11:58 AM
Dec 2019

As a kid I just thought it was a funny show. Also it was in college I realized how borderline the jokes were. I asked my mom if that was new. She said it had as always been like that---I'd just been too young to realize it

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