Jack Benny "Don Wilson's Contract" 01/23/1949Mr. Benny sticks his main musician, Don Wilson, into a room to get him to take his contract. Nice stronghanded tactics ( Read more... )

Lives of Harry Lime: "The Hand of Glory" 01/11/1952He's gone off to an English town while running away from the cops (regarding some gold that I guess he stole). And, of course a pretty girl comes into it ( Read more... )

Burns & Allen: "Taking in a Veteran" 1/03/46Regarding the housing shortage after WWII. There are lots of things from Gracie about the veterans. "After we fix up the room for the veteran, I'm going to put around a lot of tomatoes." "Gracie - why are you going to do that?" "I heard lots of men in the military say that as soon as they were out, they ( Read more... )

Life of Riley: "The New Foreman" 12/01/1950Casual sexism is always good to hear. In this case, the new foreman has an ugly daughter, which we get to hear a lot about ( Read more... )

The Phil Harrie-Alice Faye Show: "The City Hall Christmas Tree" 12/19/1949They're shopping for a Christmas tree to chop down for the town (which had forgotten to budget for it - you can see this is an old show).

I can't hear the name "Alice Faye" without thinking of the first scene of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Martha is trying to remember ( Read more... )

Gunsmoke: "Overland Express" 10/31/1952Man - I want Marshall Dillon to come along with me on a coach.

Not only that, but do you know you can keep talking after you get scalped by Apaches?
Fibber McGee: "Parking Ticket Trouble" 11/14/1939Oh, I think I heard this one before. Fibber McGee spends the whole episode trying to do something when it turns ( Read more... )

Dr. Kildare: "Eddie Jenkins and the Arsonist" 10/20/1950Eddie was sleeping under the pier next door while playing hookey. He gets headaches when he goes to school. Dr. Kildare says he believes Eddie, but I don't really believe the doctor - still, I think it will all turn out ok ( Read more... )

Voyages of the Scarlet Queen: "Tattooed Beaver and Baby Food" 10/09/1947A good reminder to Captain Phillip Carney that he shouldn't take on passengers (after all, the Scarlet Queen isn't Serenity): the woman says she's bringing cases of baby food and a minister (among others), and none of them are telling the truth. It turns out that the baby food ( Read more... )

Skywave Theater: "Forbidden Planet Decoded" 09/28/2013"Skywave Theater" is made up of contemporary actors, so this, "Forbidden Planet Decoded", was made up of them doing "Forbidden Planet". But here's what was really weird: the scientist/father asks his daughter to pretend she's a robot; and asks his robot, Robbie, to pretend he's his son (the ( Read more... )

Cisco Kid: "A Spanish Shawl"So, these two men rob this father and daughter & shoot the father. The Cisco Kid finds the woman in her wagon, with her father shot & - while the bullet won't come out - Pancho can take that bullet out no problem. Yup. I'm glad that Pancho can do operations in a wagon with no anesthesia or antiseptics & everything will ( Read more... )