Tuesday, December 11, 2018

OTR Holiday Month Day 11: Duffy's Tavern

The radio series Duffy's Tavern is an interesting one. Starring Ed Gardner as Archie, bartender at the titular pub, it had a lot of blue collar humour. Many of the laughs would come from the way Gardner would speak malapropisms. However, there's one Christmas episode which is played primarily for drama.

Called "Miracle on Third Avenue", the epsiode features Archie feeling downcast around the holidays. Then he meets a stranger played by Jeff Chandler who tries to show Archie what makes Christmas so special. It was first broadcast December 22, 1948 and you can hear it at archive.org here.

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