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Today's Suspense episode is "A Good and Faithful Servant" (June 2, 1952) featuring radio comedy star Jack Benny! This was the...

The Danny Kaye Show was a comedy-variety program starring Danny Kaye. It was heard on CBS from January 6, 1945 until May 31, 1946. Kaye was...

Welcome back to Boris Karloff month! The Jack Benny Program . On the episode of January 19, 1947, Boris Karloff appeared in a sketch titled...

I've blogged before about the Jack Benny Program here; I've mentioned it was the first old-time radio comedy program which really w...

I've said many times that I enjoy the Jack Benny Program . One of my absolute favourite broadcasts is the New Year's Eve broadcast ...

For this Saturday's episode of the Jack Benny Program I've chosen the December 8, 1946 episode. In this show, Jack goes shopping f...

Man, how many times can I get Jack Benny on the blog this month? In a rare case of Jack Benny playing someone other than Jack Benny, on Dec...

It's Saturday, so that means I'm posting another episode of the Jack Benny Program ! In this episode from December 24, 1939, Jack h...

Yes, more Jack Benny! There will be a Jack Benny episode every Saturday during this theme month. He's my favourite, after all! This ti...

My first exposure to the Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show was through a version of their annual Christmas program. Virtually every Christmas the...

I've often devoted the month of October to a day-by-day blogging exercise where I look back on one old-time radio episode per day, all t...

Do you like to laugh? Sure, we all do. When people discuss what makes them laugh the word "subjective" tends to appear, as though ...

Back in the 1990s, I once began a conversation about Humphrey Bogart films with a co-worker. He was an older man, having easily 40 years ove...

We old-time radio fans certainly enjoy the holidays; why, come Christmas time you're liable to find us listening to something related to...

We have reached the end of the series; on April 11, 1943, Jack Benny returned to the Jack Benny Program after missing five weeks of shows; ...

We have reached Orson's final appearance as host of the Jack Benny Program with this, the April 4, 1943 episode. Unfortunately, archiv...

We're now at the March 28, 1943 episode of the Jack Benny Program , featuring Orson Welles' third turn at hosting the show, and you ...

Continuing my look at the five consecutive episodes of Jack Benny without Jack Benny, we find the March 21, 1943 broadcast, Orson Welles...

Continuing my look at Jack Benny's 1943 five-week absence from his own series: on March 14, 1943, the Jack Benny Program returned to Ho...

Although I'm a former freelancer from the world of comics and the vast majority of my posts on this blog relate to the subject of comics...