Random Jimbo lists

Best Opening:
1. Nick Carter, Master Detective (door banging)
2. Fort Laramie

Dumbest characters:
1. Finnegan (Duffy's Tavern)
2. Cedric Weehunt (Lum and Abner)
3. Abner Peabody (Lum and Abner)
4. Irma (My Friend Irma)
5. Chester Riley (Life of Riley)

Blah!
1. George Raft as Rocky Jordan
2. Anyone but Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
3. Chester Morris as Boston Blackie
4. Anyone except Orson Welles as The Shadow

Most Underrated show:
1. Sherlock Holmes starring Tom Conway

Really, really, really not funny:
1. It Pays to Be Ignorant
2. Mr. Meek
3, Mr. Blandings

Made for each Other:
1. Jack Benny and Mel Blanc
2. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff (Lum and Abner)
3. Orson Welles and Agnes Moorehead
4. William Bendix and John Brown

More lists

Shows everyone seems to love except me:
1. Fred Allen
2. X Minus One

Shows that I can't figure out why I don't like:
1. Mr. President
2. You Are There

Shows that are missing one element from being really good:
1. Bob Hope Show
2. Abbott and Costello
3. Our Miss Brooks

It almost happened:
1. Groucho Marx as Chester A. Riley on Life of Riley
2. Shirley Booth as Connie Brooks on Our Miss Brooks

Characters I feel that are most like me:
1. Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve
2. Doctor Watson (Sherlock Holmes)

Actors who were everywhere:
William Conrad, Joseph Kearns, Lurene Tuttle, Parley Baer, Shirley Mitchell, Howard McNear, John Brown, Gale Gordon, Elliot Lewis, Agnes Moorehead, Dick Beals, Mel Blanc, Elvira Allman...

Favorite Episode of Escape (so far - I haven't quite finished the series yet):
1. A Shipment of Mute Fate
2. Border Town
3. Operation Fleur de Lis
4. Leningen vs the Ants
5. Three Skeleton Key

#77 on the list?:
Challenge of the Yukon or College Quiz Bowl

Lists

Best dialog:
1. Pat Novak for Hire
2. Lum and Abner

Best linguist:
1. Danny Kaye
2. Jim Jordan

Shows that are the most alike:
1. Inner Sanctum
2. Mysterious Traveler

Two characters most alike:
1. Baby Snooks
2. Teeny (Fibber McGee and Molly)

Show that surprise you every time:
1. You Bet Your Life
2. People Are Funny

Shows you probably haven't heard, but should:
1. Adventures in Research
2. Biographies in Sound

Things in OTR that drive me crazy:
1. In the Adventures of Superman, whenever Batman is on the show - we are continuously told that, "Dick Grayson, who is actually Robin" by Jackson Beck, the announcer.
2. Having to wade through music in the Jack Benny Show, A Day in the Life of Dennis Day or Fibber McGee and Molly.

Best radio actors:
1. Orson Welles
2. John Dehner

Better on radio than on TV:
1. Life of Riley
2. Halls of Ivy
3. Our Miss Brooks

Better on TV than radio:
My Favorite Husband (I Love Lucy)