American Radio Theater

ART recreation: Christmas in July. Are practical jokes cruel? See what happens when someone is given a telegram telling him he has won a lot of money in a contest.
ART commercial: Santa Claus goes to see a shrink.
WPA music #39 and #49

ART Ethel and Albert 4 Days to Christmas. Albert is trying to put up the Christmas tree while Ethel tells him about the local happenings
ART Vic and Sade Lodge Brothers go Caroling. Vic and some of the Lodge Brothers go caroling at a local hospital where a couple of Lodge brothers are staying.
Kraft Music Hall 12-21-44

ART Chang Apana Midnight Clear: Wherein our favorite detective is in hot water. Santa Claus is missing.
ART Da Nite Befor’–Al Tringali delivers the Night Before Christmas in Hawaiian pidgin.
ART X Files parody of the Night before Christmas
Kraft Music Hall 42-12-24 part 2

ART-LEX Great Gildersleeve Birdie’s Christmas
ART Get a life Cinderella
Kraft Music Hall 42-12-24 part 1

ART Christmas Every Day What if Christmas were every day?
ART Dan Schindler sings Lutefisk Christmas
ART Bud and Lou at the North Pole Bud is minding the store at the North Pole after Christmas while Santa and Mrs Claus are on vacation. Lou comes to visit.
Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show 49-12-25

Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens decide to bring gifts for the baby of friends of theirs. After riding in the rain for days, they take shelter in a cabin. Surprised to find a baby at the empty cabin, they are then intrigued when they find a man burying sacks under the floor in the main room. Two mysteries at once to solve–the money where did it come from, and whose baby?

I Love a Mystery: Terror at Frozen Corpse Lodge episode 5 and 6
Jack, Doc and Jerry are snow-bound in the High Sierras at J. Irving Stark’s hunting lodge. Gail Stark has just identified the most recent corpse as being a man whom she had kissed goodbye only a week ago. Mansfield the butler has something he wants to tell Jack, but he disappeared, and then the lights went out.

Duffy’s Tavern–The Widow
“Where the Elite meet to eat.” Archie puts an ad in the personal column of the newspaper to advertise for a rich widow. Agatha responds with only one complication. A lost show. Stars Gregg Porter as Archie and Beverly Washburn as Miss Duffy.
+ WPA orchestra music

Sam Spade Jury Duty Caper.
Sam finds himself empaneled on a jury, watching a very dishy witness and a defense attorney that he has had run-ins with in previous years. He wants to get off the jury, and to do that, he needs to find the missing state’s witness.

Plus episode 2 and 6 of the WPA orchestra recordings.

presenter: Joy Jackson
ART recreation of The Adventures of the Thin Man “Strike out”
commercial: Moki
Connie Boswell Show Oct 21, 1946