The Missing Shot
Wartime rationing supplies the topical jokes before Peter Lorre appears as Mr. Moto in a comic murder-mystery story.
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Wartime rationing supplies the topical jokes before Peter Lorre appears as Mr. Moto in a comic murder-mystery story.
Jack Benny fills in for a distinguished violinist and turns the substitution into a comic display of musical confusion.
Allen and his guests consider dining out as a wartime morale booster before Oscar Levant recalls a comically disastrous concert involving Jack Benny.
The residents of Allen's Alley consider how a new wartime Manpower Commission order affects their already eccentric lives.
Allen's broadcast is thrown into confusion when a rival quiz-show host commandeers the program live on the air.
Allen marks his hundredth Texaco broadcast with Judy Canova, jokes about Hollywood and wartime shortages, and a rustic parody titled Ozark Love.
After jokes about cradle-to-grave security, the cast presents a comic Scotland Yard case in which Inspector Hyden investigates the murder of a goldfish.
Apartment hunting takes Fred to Bela Lugosi's ominous house, where a mad scientist draws him into a comic monster plot.
Frank Sinatra visits while Allen's Alley residents consider backyard chicken raising and the comic problems that come with it.
Allen's Alley observes National Poetry Week before Fred urges George Jessel to abandon literature and reinvent himself onstage as Mal Jolson.
In this surviving second portion, Allen's search for sleep takes him through absurd medical advice and into a supposedly restful Maine institute that proves anything but peaceful.
Comedy and music about current concerns culminate in a murder-mystery spoof pairing Ellery Queen with the eccentric detective One Long Pan.
An opera singer's attempt to break into radio becomes the comic centerpiece, culminating in an unexpected change in musical style.
Allen jokes about winter weather and the wartime waste-paper campaign, then uses a guest interview to spin a comic story about his operatic ambitions.
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