Haunted Houses a popular OTR comedy theme

 Ozzie and Harriet encountered a haunted house (481031 Haunted House.)

Riley and Halloween Haunted House (Halloween Haunted House.)

The Great Gildersleeve did the same (490420 The Haunted House.)

Father Knows Best (Halloween Blues.)


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Superman radio angered Nazis?

Busted - Radio singer a 5th columnist?

Pinza listed in GoldIndex.

Lone Ranger "Victory Corps"

Previously unknown? - 'Letters to My Son'

Unlisted in OTR Encyclopedia (Mutual)

Cab Calloway's 'Quizzicale'

The show lasted July 6- October 5, 1941

Coming this week...

Okay, so the World Series is over.  I'm back to work here.

Although, I spent a good deal of time searching for stuff yesterday and all I found were those 2 Hopalong Cassidy ads.

Anyway, I am looking.  And I should have some interviews coming back to me this week as I have 4 news ones out there.  So hopefully, those will get back to me and I can post them.

I have a few other ideas brewing as well. 



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And another Hopalong Cassidy premium!

Hoplalong Cassidy premium

Funniest moment ever on 'Information Please?'

Information Please was known by some as being a stuffy, stuck-up show with a bunch of over-educated snoots.  Really, nothing farther could be the case.

Yes, the questions were sometimes very hard but sometimes the questions weren't that at all.

At any rate, Deems Taylor, who many would call the "4th regular" on the show (as he was on often but not as much as the "regulars") had an answer few would expect on this show.  I'm going to post the full clip of the question and answers.  Taylor's response is farther at the end of the clip but it's very unexpected - especially for this show:


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