BONUS - Easter Parade (Fibber McGee and Molly & Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
With Easter right around the corner, our midweek comedy break finds two of radio's funniest couples preparing for the holiday. First, Fibber McGee and Molly are after a new Easter dress (originally aired on NBC on March 23, 1948). Then, Phil Harris, Alice Faye, and Elliott Lewis as Frankie Remley are going out to eat for Easter in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show (originally aired on NBC on March 25, 1951).
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.0 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:22.0 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize |
| 0:25.4 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account |
| 0:30.4 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:33.0 | Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to another midweek quarantine comedy break from down these mean streets. |
| 1:02.0 | Easter is right around the corner and even though spring has |
| 1:06.3 | been in bloom for the past several weeks it's been hard to enjoy it as much as we'd like |
| 1:11.4 | to. So for this week I've got a pair of Easter comedies |
| 1:16.4 | starring two of radio's funniest couples. First we'll visit 79 Wistful Vista to meet Fibre McGee and Molly. |
| 1:25.0 | Jim and Mary and Jordan came out of vaudeville and honed their comedic performances on the stage |
| 1:31.0 | and in Chicago radio before they moved to the west coast and |
| 1:35.0 | launched one of radio's most popular shows. |
| 1:38.0 | They were surrounded by a neighborhood of fantastic supporting characters, including Harold Perry as Throck Morton P. Gilder sleeve. |
| 1:48.0 | A pompous win bag of a character so popular he spun off into his own long-running show. There was Arthur Q. Bryan, the voice of |
| 1:56.1 | Elmer Fudd, as Dr. Gamble, McGee's local rival, Gail Gordon, who we've heard on these comedy breaks and Our Miss Brooks and My Favorite |
| 2:05.8 | Husband as Mayor Latrivia. |
| 2:08.7 | We'll also hear him in this episode as Local Weatherman, Foggy Williams. |
| 2:13.2 | And Bill Thompson played the heart of hearing old-timer |
| 2:17.1 | and with the voice he later used to play Droopy Dog, |
| 2:20.8 | Henpecked Small Fry Wallace Wimpel. |
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