Broadcast from an Air Transport Command base at Long Beach with Merle Oberon as guest, the show opens with aviation and military-base jokes before shifting to fashions and a movie sketch. Oberon plays a princess in a story of the knights of old, while Lou becomes her comic knight and the routines mix romance, costumes, military humor and wartime service messages.
This The Abbott and Costello Show broadcast aired on November 19, 1942. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Connie Haines, Leith Stevens and His Orchestra, and Mel Blanc. Other credited names include Ken Niles as announcer.
The surviving recording runs about 30 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Camels and Prince Albert Pipe Tobacco.
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