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Foreign Relatives

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When Mr. Colby needs a bank loan, Mel and Professor Pachnik stage an elaborate parade of invented foreign relatives in hopes of impressing banker Grimes. The deception collapses, but Grimes turns out to be an amateur actor who enjoys Mel’s performance enough to approve the loan, keeping Betty’s family from moving away.

This The Mel Blanc Show broadcast aired on January 21, 1947. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Alan Reed, Hans Conried, Joseph Kearns, Mary Jane Croft, and Mel Blanc. Other credited names include Mac Benoff as writer and Bud Hiestand as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 25 minutes. Characters credited in this version include Mel Blanc (radio persona). The broadcast is also associated with Colgate Tooth Powder and Colgate Tooth Powder.

One-season CBS situation comedy starring Mel Blanc as a fictionalized Fix-It Shop owner.

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