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Allen discusses New York's lottery controversy, interviews heavyweight champion Joe Louis and stages a mock courtroom proceeding in Allen's Alley.
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Allen discusses New York's lottery controversy, interviews heavyweight champion Joe Louis and stages a mock courtroom proceeding in Allen's Alley.
Political satire includes an amateur contest for would-be politicians and a comic biography of the fictional inventor of the teabag.
Unusual poets and an Eagle Scout interview precede an aviation mystery in which a nervous advertising man becomes dangerously unhinged.
Interviews about a blizzard, a dog show, a young musician and toupees lead into a strange missing-cat mystery handled by a comic Chinese detective.
Music and character interviews accompany sketches about overcrowded housing and a wildly unsuccessful expedition to Antarctica.
Comedy, music and interviews are disrupted when a live eagle gets loose in the studio and becomes the center of the broadcast's chaos.
Fred Allen mixes music and comedy sketches with an interview involving a Disney director and his usual stream of topical banter.
Allen comments on current events, interviews an unusual high-altitude professional and dramatizes the comic life of an extraordinarily lazy man.
Interviews and music lead into a zoo farce involving an animal doctor and a parrot caught up in a campaign to conserve water.
Allen marks Peter Van Steeden's fifth anniversary with a mock reverse-career tribute alongside stories about loan sharks and elaborate clothing for dogs.
Allen marks his thirtieth anniversary with topical comedy about modern life and racetrack betting, then turns Jack Benny's celebrated thrift into the target of a comic expose.
A worm hunter and other odd guests join the comedy before Allen burlesques a panel show whose congressman participant is crippled by stage fright.
Allen combines a satirical poll about double features, a celebrity impersonator and a comic roundtable discussion in a variety-style broadcast.
Amateur poets, a World's Fair interview and a discussion of summer clothing lead into satire of familiar radio-program conventions.
Celebrity interviews and music accompany Fred Allen's topical comedy and a farcical political playlet.
Allen satirizes Hollywood through pushy stage mothers and animal casting agents before staging a wild Western murder trial.
Fred interviews Jack Benny in the midst of their long-running feud, then the round table considers a nationwide youth curfew and the Allen Art Players present a comic play about…
Allen closes the season with interviews of odd vacationers and a spoof of true-life radio drama that ends with a confused amnesia victim's identity being revealed.
The premiere of Allen's new variety show is repeatedly disrupted by chaotic auditions, music, debate and an intentionally strange quiz segment.
Allen interviews the creator of Superman and caps the variety program with a pirate parody about a quest for Spanish onions.
Eccentric poets, a noise-control expert and a weather prophet lead into a deliberately zany murder mystery.
Allen's variety hour includes eccentric hobbyists and a comic story about a football fan who becomes hopelessly lost on his way to a game.
Fred Allen's comedy hour mixes an amnesiac announcer, comic debates and a deliberately disastrous quiz with a hillbilly courtroom sketch built around a murder trial.
The show moves from a debate over Disney's Fantasia to a professor and his eagle, then reworks familiar radio-program formulas for comic effect.
Quirky interviews and music lead into a farcical sketch about the troubles inside a department store.
A cold-wave report and an opera-singer guest appearance lead into a comic detective mystery featuring Fetlock Bones.
A flea-circus proprietor and a cash giveaway precede a mock dental broadcast in which a senator accidentally swallows his newly fitted tooth on the air.
A Christmas program jokes about the fate of child prodigies before presenting a holiday fable in which an exasperated Santa Claus goes on strike.
Allen's Christmas broadcast combines holiday sketches and guest interviews with a deliberately farcical murder mystery.
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