Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy - 255 episodes from the great Old Time Radio comedy duo


(5 stars; 3 reviews)

[Updated 6/26/20 to add 19 new episodes]  This upload contains 255 episodes of Edgar Bergen's radio programs, including The Chase and Sanborn Hour, The Chase and Sanborn Show, The Charlie McCarthy Show, and The Edgar Bergen Hour.  Edgar Bergen and his sidekick Charlie McCarthy entertained radio audiences from 1937-1956. The dates, episode numbers and titles are believed to be correct based on available sources, but any corrections are welcome. Initial upload date: 4/22/2020 (232 episodes) 1st update: 6/26/2020 (19 episodes) 2nd update: 10/5/2020 (4 episodes - 5/13/1945, 4/21/1946, 3/16/1947, 1/3/1954) Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available sources on the Internet, and my goal has been to put together a collection of every available episode where possible. I will add to these collections if I discover new episodes or if any new episodes become available. Additionally, while I tried to put together a collection that contains the best version of each episode that I could, there may be better copies of some recordings available from collectors and dealers, and I encourage you to reach out to them if you are so inclined. We OTR enthusiasts owe a huge debt to those who have worked tirelessly to discover, acquire and preserve these recordings. My role here has been to organize the files I have, verify the dates, episode numbers and titles as best I could from available sources, and correct and rename the files accordingly. My goal is to ensure these excellent artistic expressions of our past are preserved for this and all future generations, and I hope that by uploading all of my files here in a uniform and organized system, they will be easily accessible for all.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

1964-11-15 (xx) Chase and Sanborn 100th Anniversary 52:49
1965-11-14 101st Anniversary - Presenting Fred & Portland Allen 52:36
1966-11-13 102nd Anniversay - Honoring the Fortieth Anniversary of NBC 1:16:20
Edgar Bergen 1937-05-09 (1) Guest - Ann Harding & Rodgers & Hart 59:45
Edgar Bergen 1937-05-16 (2) Guest - Carole Lombard, Joseph Bentoelli 59:26
Edgar Bergen 1937-05-23 (3) Guest - Mary Boland, Sonja Henie 59:55
Edgar Bergen 1937-05-30 (4) Guest - Josephine Hutchinson, Jose Iturbi 59:47
Edgar Bergen 1937-06-06 (5) Guest - Constance Bennett, Ray Middleton 59:25
Edgar Bergen 1937-06-13 (6) Guest - Joan Blondell, Rodgers & Hart 59:30
Edgar Bergen 1937-06-20 (7) Guest - May Robson, Grisha Goluboff 59:37
Edgar Bergen 1937-06-27 (8) Guest - Sonja Henie, Ray Middleton 59:22
Edgar Bergen 1937-07-04 (9) Guest - Hoagy Carmichael 59:43
Edgar Bergen 1937-07-11 (10) Guest - Gladys George 59:46
Edgar Bergen 1937-08-01 (13) Guest - Bruna Castagna 59:52
Edgar Bergen 1937-08-08 (14) Guest - Nelson Eddy 59:38
Edgar Bergen 1937-08-15 (15) Guest - Alice Brady, Allan Jones 59:44
Edgar Bergen 1937-08-22 (16) Guest - Glenda Farrell 59:50
Edgar Bergen 1937-08-29 (17) Final appearance by W.C. Fields as a regular cast member 59:30
Edgar Bergen 1937-09-05 (18) Guest - Ida Lupino 1:00:01
Edgar Bergen 1937-09-12 (19) Guest - Bette Davis 59:32
Edgar Bergen 1937-10-17 (24) Guest - Clark Gable, The Stroud Twins 59:36
Edgar Bergen 1937-12-12 (32) Guest - Mae West 1:00:14
Edgar Bergen 1937-12-19 (33) Guest - Jack Benny 20:29
Edgar Bergen 1938-01-02 (35) Guest - Margo 59:51
Edgar Bergen 1938-01-09 (36) Guest - Margaret Sullavan 59:43
Edgar Bergen 1938-01-23 (38) Guest - Alice Brady 59:39
Edgar Bergen 1938-01-30 (39) Guest - Boris Karloff 59:23
Edgar Bergen 1938-02-06 (40) Guest - Marlene Dietrich 59:33
Edgar Bergen 1938-02-13 (41) Guest - Barbara Stanwyck 59:45
Edgar Bergen 1938-02-20 (42) Guest - Gladys Swarthout 59:38
Edgar Bergen 1938-02-27 (43) Guest - Rosalind Russell 59:37
Edgar Bergen 1938-07-24 (64) Guest - Spencer Tracy 59:00
Edgar Bergen 1938-07-31 (65) Guest - Fay Bainter 57:49
Edgar Bergen 1938-08-14 (67) Guest - Ella Logan, Nelson Eddy 58:02
Edgar Bergen 1938-08-28 (69) Guest - Ralph Bellamy, Nelson Eddy 59:21
Edgar Bergen 1938-10-30 (78) Guest - Madeleine Carroll 59:38
Edgar Bergen 1938-11-06 (79) Guest - Guest Jean Arthur 21:12
Edgar Bergen 1939-01-29 (91) Guest - Maureen O'Sullivan 59:35
Edgar Bergen 1939-06-25 (112) Guest - Ginger Rogers 59:36
Edgar Bergen 1939-07-02 (113) Guest - Jackie Cooper, Alan Mowbray 59:38
Edgar Bergen 1939-07-09 (114) Guest - Stuart Irwin, Tony Galento 55:41
Edgar Bergen 1939-07-16 (115) Guest - Andrea Leeds 59:40
Edgar Bergen 1939-07-23 (116) Guest - Ida Lupino, Vera Vague 59:54
Edgar Bergen 1939-07-30 (117) Guest - Kay Frances, Luis Alberni 59:40
Edgar Bergen 1939-08-06 (118) Guest - Mischa Auer, Josephine Hutchinson 59:48
Edgar Bergen 1939-08-13 (119) Guest - Joan Blondell 59:29
Edgar Bergen 1939-08-27 (121) Guest - Miriam Hopkins, Alan Mowbray 59:29
Edgar Bergen 1939-09-03 (122) Guest - Wendy Barrie, Vera Vague 59:32
Edgar Bergen 1939-09-17 (124) Guest - Helen Broderick, Fred MacMurray 59:43
Edgar Bergen 1939-09-24 (125) Guest - Anita Louise, David Niven 59:49
Edgar Bergen 1939-10-01 (126) Guest - Constance Bennett 59:47
Edgar Bergen 1939-10-08 (127) Guest - Charles Laughton 59:37
Edgar Bergen 1939-10-29 (130) Guest - Clark Gable 59:51
Edgar Bergen 1939-11-05 (131) Guest - Cliff Nazarro, Jackie Cooper 59:40
Edgar Bergen 1939-11-12 (132) Guest - Jean Arthur 59:36
Edgar Bergen 1939-11-19 (133) Guest - John Garfield 59:47
Edgar Bergen 1939-11-26 (134) Guest - Loretta Young 59:47
Edgar Bergen 1939-12-03 (135) Guest - Maureen O'Hara, Arthur Treacher 59:54
Edgar Bergen 1939-12-10 (136) Guest - Lansing Hatfield 59:49
Edgar Bergen 1939-12-17 (137) Guest - Geraldine Fitzgerald 59:44
Edgar Bergen 1940-01-07 (140) Guest - Wallace Beery and Vera Vague 29:51
Edgar Bergen 1940-02-18 (146) Guest - Clark Gable and Vera Vague 29:30
Edgar Bergen 1940-04-21 (155) Guest - Charles Laughton 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1941-09-21 (212) Guest - W.C. Fields 28:45
Edgar Bergen 1941-11-16 (220) Guest - Gene Tierney, Maxine Gray 28:09
Edgar Bergen 1941-11-30 (222) Guest - Hedy Lamarr 29:04
Edgar Bergen 1941-12-07 (223) Guest - Judy Garland 29:17
Edgar Bergen 1941-12-14 (224) Guest - Lana Turner, Mickey Rooney 29:33
Edgar Bergen 1942-02-08 (232) Guest - Ida Lupino, Abbott & Costello 29:52
Edgar Bergen 1942-05-03 (244) Guest - Edward Everett Horton 29:16
Edgar Bergen 1942-06-21 (251) Guest - Judy Garland 29:29
Edgar Bergen 1942-06-28 (252) Guest - Walter Brennan 29:49
Edgar Bergen 1942-10-11 (258) From Annapolis Naval Academy 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1942-10-18 (259) From Quantico Marine Base 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1942-11-08 (262) Guest - W.C. Fields 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1943-01-24 (273) Guest - Jose Iturbi and Jeanette MacDonald 12:33
Edgar Bergen 1943-02-07 (275) Guest - Teresa Wright 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1943-02-14 (276) Guest - Bill Thompson, Charles Ruggles 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1943-02-21 (277) Guest - Carmen Miranda 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1943-03-07 (279) Guest - Sidney Greenstreet 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1943-03-28 (282) Guest - Roy Rogers 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1943-04-04 (283) Guest - Bill Thompson, Mary Boland 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1943-04-11 (284) Guest - Martha Raye, Bill Thompson 29:27
Edgar Bergen 1943-04-18 (285) Guest - Ronald Colman 29:32
Edgar Bergen 1943-04-25 (286) Guest - Irene Dunn 29:11
Edgar Bergen 1943-05-02 (287) Barbara Stanwyck Acts as Charlie's Agent 26:38
Edgar Bergen 1943-05-09 (288) Guest - Victor Moore, Billy Gaxton 29:23
Edgar Bergen 1943-05-16 (289) Guest - Claudette Colbert, Rags Ragland 29:24
Edgar Bergen 1943-05-23 (290) Guest - Charles Boyer 29:02
Edgar Bergen 1943-05-30 (291) Guest - Walter Pidgeon 27:53
Edgar Bergen 1943-09-05 (292) Guest - Jean Arthur 21:10
Edgar Bergen 1943-09-12 (293) Guest - Humphrey Bogart 27:28
Edgar Bergen 1943-09-19 (294) Guest - W.C. Fields 21:42
Edgar Bergen 1943-09-26 (295) Guest - Hedy Lamarr 28:46
Edgar Bergen 1943-10-10 (297) Guest - Marjorie Main 22:39
Edgar Bergen 1943-10-24 (299) Guest - Bert Lahr and Joan Blondell 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1943-10-31 (300) Guest - Dorothy Lamour 31:00
Edgar Bergen 1943-11-07 (301) Guest - Bob Burns 29:22
Edgar Bergen 1943-11-28 (304) Guest - William Bendix 23:15
Edgar Bergen 1943-12-05 (305) Guest - Bert Lahr, Fats Waller & Jane Powell 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1943-12-12 (306) Guest - Bert Lahr, Lena Horne 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1944-01-23 (312) Guest - Greer Garson 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1944-01-30 (313) Guest - Basil Rathbone 19:10
Edgar Bergen 1944-02-06 (314) Guest - Susan Hayward 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1944-02-20 (316) Guest - W.C. Fields 31:33
Edgar Bergen 1944-03-05 (318) Guest - Cecil B Demille 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1944-03-12 (319) Guest - Charles Ruggles, Vera Felton 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1944-03-26 (321) Guest - W.C. Fields, Jane Powell 29:58
Edgar Bergen 1944-04-02 (322) Guest - Orson Welles, Jane Powell 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1944-09-17 (334) Guest - Leo Carillo 30:33
Edgar Bergen 1944-10-01 (336) Guest - Olivia de Havilland 30:28
Edgar Bergen 1944-10-15 (338) Charlie Wants More Allowance (with Gertrude Niesen) 28:40
Edgar Bergen 1944-10-22 (339) Charlie Opens a Frog Farm (Welles, Burke) 27:54
Edgar Bergen 1944-10-29 (340) Halloween Show, Guest - Orson Welles 29:12
Edgar Bergen 1944-11-05 (341) Guest - John Robert Powers, Orson Welles 28:12
Edgar Bergen 1944-11-12 (342) Guest - Frank Fay 28:32
Edgar Bergen 1944-11-19 (343) Guest - Joan Merrill 29:14
Edgar Bergen 1944-11-26 (344) Guest - Lauritz Melchior 29:17
Edgar Bergen 1944-12-03 (345) Guest - Don Ameche 29:12
Edgar Bergen 1944-12-10 (346) Charlie Answers Ad for Edgar 30:25
Edgar Bergen 1944-12-17 (347) Guest - Rudy Vallee 29:33
Edgar Bergen 1944-12-24 (348) Guest - Navy Choir 29:28
Edgar Bergen 1944-12-31 (349) Guest - Charles Laughton 28:06
Edgar Bergen 1945-01-07 (350) Guest - Carmen Miranda 29:13
Edgar Bergen 1945-01-14 (351) Guest - Louis Bromfield 28:48
Edgar Bergen 1945-01-28 (353) Guest - Frank Sinatra 28:54
Edgar Bergen 1945-02-04 (354) Guest - Albert E Wiggem 28:43
Edgar Bergen 1945-02-11 (355) Guest - Dorothy Lamour 28:58
Edgar Bergen 1945-02-18 (356) Guest - Ginny Simms, Veronica Lake 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1945-02-25 (357) Guest - Gene Tierney 29:23
Edgar Bergen 1945-03-04 (358) Guest - Anne Baxter 29:15
Edgar Bergen 1945-03-11 (359) Guest - Joan Blondell 29:23
Edgar Bergen 1945-03-18 (360) Guest - Maria Montez 29:32
Edgar Bergen 1945-03-25 (361) Guest - Lynn Bari 29:18
Edgar Bergen 1945-04-22 (364) Guest - Rita Hayworth 29:06
Edgar Bergen 1945-04-29 (365) Guest - Ida Lupino 29:18
Edgar Bergen 1945-05-13 (366) Guest - Edward Everett Horton 30:18
Edgar Bergen 1945-05-20 (368) Guest - Janet Blair 28:56
Edgar Bergen 1945-06-03 (370) Guest - Joan Merrill 29:29
Edgar Bergen 1945-09-02 (371) Guest - Keenan Wynn, Carmen Miranda 30:03
Edgar Bergen 1945-09-09 (372) Guest - Keenan Wynn 29:05
Edgar Bergen 1945-09-16 (373) Guest - Joan Blondell 29:19
Edgar Bergen 1945-09-23 (374) Guest - Ann Baxter 29:53
Edgar Bergen 1945-09-30 (375) Guest - Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa 29:54
Edgar Bergen 1945-10-07 (376) Guest - Paulette Goddard 30:27
Edgar Bergen 1945-10-14 (377) Guest - Hildegarde 29:52
Edgar Bergen 1945-10-21 (378) Guest - Fred Allen 29:57
Edgar Bergen 1945-11-04 (380) Guest - Elsa Maxwell 29:23
Edgar Bergen 1945-11-11 (381) Guest - Gov Kerr of Oklahoma 26:43
Edgar Bergen 1945-11-18 (382) Guest - Margaret O'Brien 29:30
Edgar Bergen 1945-11-25 (383) Guest - Vera Vague 29:41
Edgar Bergen 1945-12-02 (384) Guest - Walter Pidgeon 30:29
Edgar Bergen 1945-12-16 (386) Guest - Susan Hayward 29:09
Edgar Bergen 1946-01-13 (390) Guest - Chester Morris 28:46
Edgar Bergen 1946-01-20 (391) Guest - Rita Hayworth 30:18
Edgar Bergen 1946-01-27 (392) Guest - Signe Hasso 31:07
Edgar Bergen 1946-02-10 (394) Guest - Jose Iturbi 30:25
Edgar Bergen 1946-02-17 (395) Guest - Ray Milland 29:03
Edgar Bergen 1946-02-24 (396) Guest - Tallulah Bankhead 24:36
Edgar Bergen 1946-03-03 (397) Guest - Walter Slezak 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1946-03-24 (400) Guest - W.C. Fields 29:21
Edgar Bergen 1946-03-31 (401) Guest - Roy Rogers 26:22
Edgar Bergen 1946-04-21 (404) Margaret O'Brien 29:36
Edgar Bergen 1946-10-06 (415) Guest - Jack Benny 29:54
Edgar Bergen 1946-10-27 (418) From Medina Temple, Charlie the Chiropractor 29:04
Edgar Bergen 1946-11-03 (419) Guest - Fred Allen 29:55
Edgar Bergen 1946-11-17 (421) Guest - Talluah Bankhead 24:30
Edgar Bergen 1946-11-24 (422) Guest - Edward Everett Horton 19:11
Edgar Bergen 1947-01-05 (428) Guest - Charles Boyer 29:01
Edgar Bergen 1947-01-12 (429) Guest - Edward Arnold 29:05
Edgar Bergen 1947-01-19 (430) 10th Anniversary Show 29:34
Edgar Bergen 1947-01-26 (431) Guest - Roy Rogers 29:09
Edgar Bergen 1947-02-02 (432) Guest - Jane Wyman 29:10
Edgar Bergen 1947-02-09 (433) Guest - Nelson Eddy 28:48
Edgar Bergen 1947-02-16 (434) Guest - Nelson Eddy, Billie Burke 28:43
Edgar Bergen 1947-02-23 (435) Guest - Nelson Eddy, Elsa Maxwell 28:43
Edgar Bergen 1947-03-02 (436) Guest - Nelson Eddy, Chester Morris 29:02
Edgar Bergen 1947-03-09 (437) Guest - Monty Woolley 28:46
Edgar Bergen 1947-03-16 (436) Margo 29:44
Edgar Bergen 1947-03-30 (440) Guest - Edward Everett Horton 29:48
Edgar Bergen 1947-09-14 (450) Guest - Michael Romanoff 29:26
Edgar Bergen 1947-09-21 (451) Guest - Walt Disney 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1947-09-28 (452) Guest - Betty Hutton 29:33
Edgar Bergen 1947-10-05 (453) Guest - Don Ameche 29:08
Edgar Bergen 1947-10-12 (454) Guest - Linda Darnell 29:38
Edgar Bergen 1947-10-19 (455) Guest - Jane Wyman 28:57
Edgar Bergen 1947-10-26 (456) Guest - Richard Widmark 28:51
Edgar Bergen 1947-11-02 (457) Guest - Fred Allen 29:58
Edgar Bergen 1947-11-09 (458) Guest - Maurice Evans 28:40
Edgar Bergen 1947-11-16 (459) Guest - Lana Turner 29:27
Edgar Bergen 1947-11-23 (460) Guest - Carmen Miranda 29:12
Edgar Bergen 1947-11-30 (461) Guest - Edward Everett Horton 28:00
Edgar Bergen 1947-12-07 (462) Guest - Roy Rogers 29:03
Edgar Bergen 1947-12-14 (463) Guest - Gary Cooper 29:27
Edgar Bergen 1948-01-11 (467) Guest - Lucille Ball 29:13
Edgar Bergen 1948-01-18 (468) Guest - Hoagy Carmichael 25:06
Edgar Bergen 1948-04-04 (479) Guest - Rudy Vallee 28:38
Edgar Bergen 1948-04-11 (480) Guest - Dr. Max Mason 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1948-05-02 (483) Guest - Dr. Max Mason, Marie Montaine 29:33
Edgar Bergen 1948-05-09 (484) Guest - Don Ameche aka Charlie Breaks a Window 29:39
Edgar Bergen 1948-10-17 (490) Guest - Don Ameche 29:39
Edgar Bergen 1948-12-19 (499) Christmas Show with Mario Lanza 27:47
Edgar Bergen 1948-12-26 (500) Last Show for Chase & Sanborn 29:16
Edgar Bergen 1949-10-09 (502) Guest - Dorothy Shay 29:16
Edgar Bergen 1949-11-13 (507) Guest - Dick Powell 30:25
Edgar Bergen 1949-12-18 (512) Guest - June Allyson 29:00
Edgar Bergen 1949-12-25 (513) Guest - William Boyd 27:25
Edgar Bergen 1950-01-22 (517) Guest - Alec Templeton 28:46
Edgar Bergen 1951-03-04 (553) Guest - Robert Cummings 29:46
Edgar Bergen 1951-04-15 (559) Guest - June Allyson 29:46
Edgar Bergen 1951-12-16 (577) Guest - Frankie Laine 30:00
Edgar Bergen 1952-01-06 (580) Guest - William Warfield 29:38
Edgar Bergen 1952-05-25 (600) Guest - The Mills Brothers 29:09
Edgar Bergen 1952-10-05 (602) Guest - Rosemary Clooney 29:46
Edgar Bergen 1952-11-09 (607) Guest - Marilyn Monroe 30:13
Edgar Bergen 1952-12-28 (614) Guest - Rosemary Clooney from Camp Pendleton 27:15
Edgar Bergen 1953-03-01 (623) Guest - Robert Cummings 29:44
Edgar Bergen 1953-04-05 (628) Guest - Candice Bergen 22:52
Edgar Bergen 1953-10-11 (637) Guest - Gordon MacRae 29:40
Edgar Bergen 1953-10-18 (638) Guest - Fred MacMurray 29:40
Edgar Bergen 1953-11-08 (641) Guest - June Allyson and Dick Powell 29:43
Edgar Bergen 1954-01-03 (649) Guest - Tennessee Ernie 29:36
Edgar Bergen 1954-01-17 (651) Guest - Liberace 29:38
Edgar Bergen 1954-01-24 (652) Guest - Dorothy Kirsten 29:51
Edgar Bergen 1954-01-31 (653) Guest - Terry Moore 29:56
Edgar Bergen 1954-02-28 (657) Guest - June Allyson, Dick Powell 29:52
Edgar Bergen 1954-03-14 (659) Guest - Jane Wyman 29:51
Edgar Bergen 1954-03-21 (660) Guest - Peggy Lee 29:53
Edgar Bergen 1954-03-28 (661) Bergen and McCarthy 29:50
Edgar Bergen 1954-04-04 (662) Guest - David Niven 29:43
Edgar Bergen 1954-04-11 (663) Bergen and McCarthy 29:44
Edgar Bergen 1954-04-25 (665) Guest - Ann Blythe 29:13
Edgar Bergen 1954-06-20 (672) Guest - Nelson Eddy 24:41
Edgar Bergen 1954-12-26 (688) Guest - Hopalong Cassidy 27:22
Edgar Bergen 1955-10-09 (698) Guest - Smog Expert Art Atkinson 55:27
Edgar Bergen 1955-10-23 (700) Guest - Professor Hal Sparks Teaches Charlie About Termites 55:04
Edgar Bergen 1955-11-13 (703) Charlie Dreams That He Visits Hell 54:19
Edgar Bergen 1955-11-20 (704) Charlie Wants to Be a Gossip Columnist 53:57
Edgar Bergen 1955-11-27 (705) Guest - Jack Benny 58:44
Edgar Bergen 1955-12-18 (708) Guest - Candy Bergen 55:10
Edgar Bergen 1955-12-25 (709) Christmas Show 55:37
Edgar Bergen 1956-01-01 (710) Guest - Lew Ayers 57:27
Edgar Bergen 1956-01-15 (712) Guest - Tad Sanders 58:10
Edgar Bergen 1956-01-22 (713) Guest - Rudy Wissler, Cecil Zon 57:53
Edgar Bergen 1956-01-29 (714) Guest - Stan Erwin 57:42
Edgar Bergen 1956-03-04 (719) Guest - Richard Armour 57:21
Edgar Bergen 1956-03-11 (720) Woman who 'Farms the Sea' 53:34
Edgar Bergen 1956-03-18 (721) McCarthy's Cavalcade of Flops 58:42
Edgar Bergen 1956-03-25 (722) Mortimer's Ups and Downs 58:47
Edgar Bergen 1956-04-08 (724) Interplanetary Western 55:34
Edgar Bergen 1956-04-15 (725) Guest - Ben Him 55:09
Edgar Bergen 1956-04-22 (726) Guest - Lost in the Woods 54:59
Edger Bergen Remembers Radio Part 1 28:32
Edger Bergen Remembers Radio Part 2 23:00
Tribute to Edgar Bergen - "The Skunk Trap" With W.C. Fields & 1971 KSFO Interview (date approximate) 19:52

Reviews

Note Regarding Identification of Episodes


(5 stars)

The following episodes are incorrectly-labeled copies of other episodes and are entirely unnecessary: 299 (=306), 301 (=380), and 371 (=375). Either 277 or 350 is incorrect. Same for 396 and 421. 341 and 342 are different recordings of the same material. There may be other such pairs of files. I am almost positive that episode 364 contains some material from episode 361, and episodes 358 and 365 may share some broadcast material that has been substituted for what I guess is lost content in at least one in each pair. Again, there may be other instances of this in other episodes. Most or all substitute some piece of sung material for another. The material of some episodes simply gets cut off even though the recording itself goes on with nothing but silence. These seem to be original to the recordings, or at least to the only extant versions of the recordings. (This is by no means a discouragement from listening to these episodes!)

#36 1938-10-30 The episode opposite War of the Worlds


#36 1938-10-30 *THIS* is the episode that some people tuned out during one of Nelson Eddie's songs. When they spun the radio dial over to CBS, the Mercury Theater's adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' was already in progress. 0:00 Some comedy banter with McCarthy. 2:16 Nelson Eddie sings '"The Song of the Vagabonds'. 4:42 Nelson Eddie sings 'The Canadian Logging Song' 6:22 Edgar Bergen attempts to tell a ghost story. 15:25 Dorothy Lamar sings 'Two Sleepy People'. Meanwhile, over at CBS, the Martian invasion was just beginning. ****************** I would have liked to 'review' the episodes individually but wasn't an option.

1952 15th Anniversary Show


(5 stars)

Ep. 214 in this list- One of the all time best! Rosemary Clooney croons her superb singing while Charlie and Ray set off to interview Edgar's childhood friends in Decatur IL with hilarious results. Bea Benedrette plays an old girlfriend and Jack Kirkwood brings the house down. "Burned down a lot of houses but made a lot of dough!" One of Mortimer's best as well. Not to be missed! -From Laurence Budd, OTR radio host