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Gary - Thanks for the explanation about the running gag of stars not appearing. I haven't listened to enough of these shows to catch on that. The state these shows exist in make them hard to listen to (and for me anyways, the 'comedy' in these early shows makes them hard to listen to, the glory day...

The Marxes were never really booked for the Benny show in the fall of 1934. That was the first year of the Jell-O program and one of Benny's silly running gags that season was pretending big stars would appear on his show and then at the last minute he would receive a telegram from them opting out....

The Benny show exists, it's the Nov 11, 1934 show. Jack mentions on the show that the Brothers were to have appeared but could not make it. Interesting that Jack refers to them as the Four Marx Brothers though Zeppo's departure had been announced in March that year. Well, ick, I'm glad I hadn't hea...

Whether there are 13 more episodes or 30, I would welcome any more editions, if only to see if they get any better. I have never been that enamored with any of these circulating episodes all these years. There is always a feeling of 40's Columbia shorts-cheapness that hangs in the air of these prog...

Who knows what other on-air gems we are missing out on today? The surviving broadcast of THE CIRCLE is indeed a great show, and the other great surviving thirties broadcasts have to include the one and a half surviving episodes of FLYWHEEL, SHYSTER AND FLYWHEEL, their 1933 NBC show that became the ...

The New York Times gets in on the act: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/movies/homevideo/shout-factory-gathers-marx-brothers-tv-spots.html Ah well, another snooty, East Coast "aren't we just so above it all" NYT "nose in the air", we-guess-it's-a-good review. Pointless whining ...

Another DEAN MARTIN SHOW clip, here Orson Welles and Dom Deluise re-do a Marty Feldman-Tim Brooke Taylor sketch from AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb7uKhI7uqU



RICHARD M ROBERTS

Nope, THAT ROYLE GIRL, THE POTTERS, and the three with Chester Conklin, TWO FLAMING YOUTH, TILLIES PUNCTURED ROMANCE, AND FOOLS FOR LUCK are currently missing. RICHARD M ROBERTS Those were the same films listed as 'lost' back in the 60's (writers rarely said 'missing'. It was pretty much a done dea...

Richard M Roberts wrote: It was originally believed that there were only 12-14 episodes, but I now have a list of 18, and to be a full single-season syndicated show in those days, we're talking 39 episodes. I remember you writing a few years ago, if I'm remembering correctly, that a religious organ...

How many episodes of the filmed BUSTER KEATON SHOW - LIFE WITH BUSTER were made? Has a complete list of episode titles ever been compiled? Pasquale An interesting question, and one that apparently doesn;t have a definitive answer. It was originally believed that therer were only 12-14 episodes, but...