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 		 Fred Allen Show The Fred Allen Show - Town Hall Tonight - Vol. 1    

TAGLINE: The Fred Allen Show opened each week with the young DeMarco Sisters harmoniously chiming "Oh, Mr. Allen?" as a set-up for his cleaver opening line.

The show that became Town Hall Tonight was the longest-running hour-long comedy-based show in classic radio history.

Starring: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa
10 full-length - 60 minute shows with original commercials

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The Fred Allen Show : Fred Allen first hosted The Linit Bath Club Revue on CBS, moving the show to NBC and where it was renamed The Salad Bowl Revue (in a nod to new sponsor Hellmann's Mayonnaise, which was marketed by the parent company of Linit). The show became The Sal Hepatica Revue (1933–34), The Hour of Smiles (1934–35), and finally Town Hall Tonight (1935–39). Volume One includes ten hour-long shows complete with commercials.

Disc One
Who Killed Rappaport?
10-7-36		 Disc Two
The Prodigal Daughter's Return
12-2-36
 Disc Three
St. Patrick's Day
3-17-37

Disc Four
Santa Will Not Ride Tonight?
12-22-37

  
 

Disc Five
Dr. Scallops Quandry
with Bert Lahr
5-4-38

 Disc Six
Who Stole the Favorite?
5-25-38

Disc Seven
Satire On Songwriters
6-8-38

 Disc Eight
Edgar Rice Burroughs
10-18-39		 Disc Nine
Satire on Surveys
with Bert Lahr
10-11-39

Disc Ten
The Worlds Fair Aquacade
10-25-39

  
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  The Fred Allen Show - Town Hall Tonight - Vol. 2  
   

TAGLINE: "It's Town Hall Tonight!"

The Allen-Benny feud was the longest-playing, best-remembered dialogic running gag in classic radio history. The gag even pushed toward a boxing match between the two comedians and the promised event was a sellout. It also never happened, really. The pair even appeared together in films, including Love Thy Neighbor (1940) and It's in the Bag! (1945).

Starring: Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa
10 full-length - 60 minute shows with original commercials

  
   

FORMAT:
CD
 
    $23.95
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  The Fred Allen Show: In 1939–40 the sponsor Bristol-Myers, which advertised Ipana toothpaste as well as Sal Hepatica during the program, altered the title to The Fred Allen Show, over Fred's objections. The hour-long show featured segments that would influence radio and, much later, television; news satires such as Town Hall Tonight's "The News Reel", later renamed "Town Hall New." In 1940, Allen moved back to CBS with a new sponsor and show name, Texaco Star Theater. Allen and company also satirized popular musical comedies and films of the day, including and especially Oklahoma!. Allen also did semi-satirical interpretations of well-known lives – including his own. Disc 1
Alfred Plant Donut Czar
11-8-39
 Disc Two
Life at the South Pole
2-28-40

Disc Three
An Eagle Gets Loose in
the Studio
3-20-40

 Disc Four
Who Killed Mack Borden?
3-27-40		    
  Disc Five
Amateur of the Month
1-1-41		 Disc Six
All's Not Gold That Glitters
1-8-41		 Disc Seven
Mountain Justice
With June Brady
2-5-41		 Disc Eight
Lindy Lindemann
Restauranteur
2-19-41

Disc Nine
One Long Pan Solves
Charlie Chans Murder
4-2-41

Disc Ten
The Courting of
Nasty and Nell
4-2-41		    
 

> Episodes originally aired 1936
> Format: CD
> Genre: Drama
> Label: Nostalgia Merchant
> Originally Released in: 1987
> Run Time: 16 Hours (on both CDs)
> Audio: Dolby Digital

                
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