The broadcast begins with Navy and wartime paper-drive comedy, with Abbott trying to collect waste paper as mayor of Sherman Oaks. Lou accidentally loses the show's script in the collection, bringing Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead into the confusion as guest stars while the cast tries to get the broadcast on the air through improvised routines, music and crossover comedy.
This The Abbott and Costello Show broadcast aired on March 9, 1944. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Freddie Rich and His Orchestra, Connie Haines, and Arthur Lake. Other credited names include Ken Niles as announcer.
The surviving recording runs about 29 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Camels and Prince Albert Pipe Tobaco.
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