Starter of this subject: Macandrew
Last post in this subject: 12/19/2001
Messages in this subject: 4
| Macandrew | 12/19/2001 4 replies |
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I'm looking for Christmas episodes of several programs and need help locating the following:
Bob Hope - early 50's from VA Hospital in California. Featured Bill Goodwin, Frank Nelson and Sheldon Leonard? as the tout. Bob and Bill go Christmas shopping in Hubert Updyke's department store and Bob is falsely accused of shoplifting. Gunsmoke - Will Beeker's (or Meeker's?) Barn - Matt, Chester and Doc are called to a ranch whose owner wants to evict a couple on Christmas Eve - his estranged daughter and her husband. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - title uncertain (30 minute format) - Johnny protects a woman and her daughter from gangsters trying to kill the woman. The girl is in a school or church Christmas play. Title may be The Nick _____ Matter. The Life of Riley - When the plant announces there will be no Christmas bonuses, Riley is mistakenly believed to have received a gift on the sly. The money was really for him to buy wallets for the workers. Our Miss Brooks - The Magic Christmas Tree - When Connie is left alone on Christmas Eve, she dreams she buys from a poor boy going door to door, a Christmas tree with special powers. I had a tape with all these episodes and believe these were AFRTS versions because commercials were edited out. A late friend gave me tapes of the shows, but it was damaged and I'd like to replace it. I have no shows to trade but am willing to pay for replacement tapes, shipping, etc. Thanks for any help you may be able to offer. Does anyone have information on any of these shows? |
| Michael Nella | 12/19/2001 0 replies |
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1. The Johnny Dollar show your describing is from the 5 day a week 15 minute format, The Nick Shurn Matter
2. I think the Life of Riley show you're describing was done on 12/24/48. 3. The Our Miss Brooks show was done several times as the annual show. I have the 1949 and 1950 versions in my collection I have only three Bob Hope shows in my collection and that isn't one of them and the Gunsmoke episode doesn't sound familiar at all. Hope I could help |
| Stewart Wright | 12/19/2001 0 replies |
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Gunsmoke - Beeker's Barn
Plot: Jethro Beeker demands that Dillon arrest a couple that are in his barn. The young couple happens to be his estranged daughter, Harmony and her husband Will Ross and Harmony is ready to have a baby! Aired: 12/23/1956 & 12/20/1959 Notes: The script was used twice on the series with some different guest cast members. The 1956 airing had a shorter script with opening scene between Matt, Chester, and Kitty rather than Will and Harmony as in the 1959 production. Also, there is an additional scene between Doc, Chester and the Mrs. Prudlin in the 1959 production that is not in the 1956 production. |
| Macandrew | 12/20/2001 0 replies |
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Thanks for the replies...The Bob Hope show had several references in Bob's monologue that put the date prior to (I believe) 1955 or so. One was a comment about Les Brown being the only bandleader who didn't know the words to "Sh-Boom". Bob also commented that Christmas is the only time he's grateful not to be (I think) King Farouk (because of his many wives). One very good line was his reference to asking the colonel when he wanted Bob to do the show. The answer was "right after dinner, that's usually when we give the men their sleeping pills" or very close to that. Also a mention that the cooks wanted to give the men a white Christmas, so they bleached the beans. I don't remember the location but it seems it was something like so many miles from Such-And-Such as the crow flies, and so many mile from Santa Anita as the dough flies. (Are you getting the idea I may have listened to this one several dozen times or more... The Gunsmoke episode was just "Beeker's Barn"; where I got the name Will, I don't know...maybe The Guns of Will Sonnet...no, that was the OTHER medium. The name Jethro woke me up right away. I think the episode I had was the first, as I don't remember Kitty talking to anyone beside Matt and Chester. The Life of Riley ep was, I think, better than it could have been on TV, as were the others. I can get a better idea of poor Chester opening the sweater the guys gave him....black, with a white stripe up the back, then taking the wallets and throwing them into the fireplace....the false fireplace. Poor guy, but William Bendix played him perfectly. (Jackie Gleason didn't do such a bad job either...that version was pretty good...for TV.) Thanks for the information. Hopefully I'll be able to find these particular broadcasts. As I said, my late friend taped them for me and some years later the tape broke. He never got round to finding the tapes so I never got a replacement. Someday, maybe... Merry Christmas and happy holidays...may they be safe and healthy ones for all of us, and may our country keep going forward in the face of the events of the recent past. As Dave Garroway used to say - Peace. So be it. Macandrew |
| Jim Airdo | 12/22/2001 0 replies |
| I have heard the "Magic Christmas Tree" episode of Our Miss Brooks on a Chicago radio program called "Those Were The Days". The host, Chuck Schaden, has a service to order cassettes of the shows heard on his broadcasts. The address is: Nostalgia Digest, Box 421, Morton Grove, IL 60053. I hope he can help you. Happy Holi |