| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1941-09-21 | null |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1941-11-30 | Charlie gets tips from bandleader Ray Noble on how to conduct an orchestra, which he's putting together in order to romance guest star Hedy Lamarr (or, as Charlie calls her, "Hedy Lamarr-velous"). Bud and Lou have gotten jobs in a department store and help Ray with his Christmas shopping list. Musical numbers include "The William Tell Overture" and "Laugh, Laugh, Laugh" (performed by Bud and Lou!). With Edgar Bergen, Bud Abbott, announcer Buddy Twiss and Ray Noble and his Orchestra. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1941-12-07 | Broadcast from Fort Ord, California: Edgar, Charlie, and Mortimer welcome to the program guest star Judy Garland. Judy sings "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" and goes into business with Charlie for the holidays. Abbott tricks Costello into thinking he's being inducted into the Army. With Edgar Bergen, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, announcer Buddy Twiss and Ray Noble and his Orchestra. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1941-12-14 | Lana Turner guest stars and appears in a Western comedy sketch alongside Charlie and bandleader Ray Noble. Bud must make do with surprise guest star Mickey Rooney when Lou is absent from the program with laryngitis, and the two perform the team's famous "haunted house" sketch. Musical numbers include "Moonlight Masquerade". With Edgar Bergen, Bud Abbott, Verna Felton, announcer Buddy Twiss and Ray Noble and his Orchestra. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-02-01 | Guest Donald Crisp chats with Charlie about his new film, "How Green Was My Valley." The program is still being referred to as, "The Chase and Sanborn Program." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-02-08 | Lou visit's Ida's haunted house. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-02-08 | Near the end of program, Ray Noble and Ida mention that Edgar Bergen's in the hospital. Not-too-surprisingly, Charlie McCarthy is also not heard. A noise like a shot is heard just as Buddy Twiss starts the program. The shot is heard again about a minute later (where it belongs). Abbott invites Costello to his ranch, "Bunion In The Foothills" (boy, is that corny). Ida invites Costello over to her spooky house. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-02-22 | Charlie has given Bergen's clothes away. Abbott and Costello do a routine about George Washington. When guest Hedy Lamarr says that she's learning how to roll bandages at the Red Cross, Charlie calls her, "The Wizard Of Gauze." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-03-01 | Charlie is worried about paying his income tax. Abbott and Costello play poker: a funny routine. Guest Louella Parsons comes to "dish the dirt" with Charlie. Louella (who actually is in the navy) joins Charlie in a nautical skit and speaks on behalf of buying "war bonds." The program opening is slightly upcut. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-03-08 | Costello, the police reporter. Mortimer Snerd invites guest Ann Sothern to go skiing on his farm. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-03-15 | Charlie's fallen for his new teacher at school. After shamelessly plugging their new picture ("Pardon My Sarong"), Abbott and Costello do a routine about figures of speech. The show features an Irving Berlin tune, "I Paid My Income Tax Today." Charlie tries to get free tickets to guest Cecil B. DeMille's new picture, "Reap The Wild Wind." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-03-22 | Charlie and Edgar vie for the attention of "Miss Valentine." Abbott's house is on fire, but Costello won't answer the phone. Charlie interviews guest Gary Cooper, who answers all questions with "Yep," and "Nope" and tells a very corny joke about goats. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-03-29 | Charlie is not talking to Edgar since Edgar dated Charlie's new teacher, Miss Valentine. Charlie's new ventiloquist is going to be...Ray Noble! Lou Costello is opening a dress shop. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-04-26 | Edgar introduces Ray Noble and his orchestra, Lynn Martin and The Sportsmen playing, "Love Is The Strangest Thing" (which was written by Ray Noble). Abbott and Costello are in the courtroom of Judge Joe Forte. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-05-03 | Guest Edward Everett Horton is angry because Charlie's kangaroo has dug up his garden. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-05-17 | The band plays, "I Am An American." Guest Bert Lahr is very upset with Charlie and plans to box Charlie's pet kangaroo. The final 15:37 of the program only. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-06-21 | Judy and Charlie go shopping for a Father's Day gift for Bergen. Judy's first song is, "I Never Knew." Pierre Le Snerd, the French chef. Costello tells Abbott about the animals down on his farm, and his horse. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-06-28 | The last show of the season. Abbott and Costello do their "Mustard" routine. Guest Walter Brennan and the cast do a "Down East" drama. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-09-06 | The first show of the season. Don sings, "Over Here, Over There and Everywhere." Charlie and Bergen have just returned from a U.S.O. tour to Alaska. Dale Evans sings, "Why Don't You Fall In Love With Me?" (her first appearance as a regular on the show). The first 15:14 of the program only from NBC, sponsored by Chase and Sanborn, excellent condition. A more complete, edited version runs 23:45, no commercials and is in very good to excellent condition. Charlie Ruggles tells about the frozen north; the cast visit the North Pole. Don is giving away ice cubes to the Eskimos. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-09-13 | Charlie has to return to school tomorrow. He's "feeling lower than a Jap's word of honor." Bergen plans to buy Charlie a new suit...from a Mexican tailor. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-09-20 | Dale Evans sings the song she's just written, "I'm In Love With A Guy Who Flies In The Sky." Dale has been made an honorary Captain in the Air Force (even though the song isn't that good). Don tries his hypnotic powers on Bergen. Charlie and Dale sing, "Delicious Delerium," from Charlie McCarthy's new picture, "Here We Go Again." Guest Harold Peary appears as, "The Great Gildersleeve." Gildy proposes making another movie with Edgar, but has a feud with Charlie. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-10-04 | The broadcast originates from The Eastern Signal Corps School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Don sings, "You're A Grand Old Flag." Charlie is working for the scrap drive. William Batt (Vice Chariman of the War Production Board) appears. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-10-18 | The program originates from the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia. The first 3:10 of the program only. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-10-25 | The program originates from the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Edgar tells Charlie the story of Rip Van Winkle. Don Ameche reads, "The Cadet's Prayer." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1942-11-08 | Don Ameche sings, "We're Fighting Sons Of The Navy Blue." Charlie the tattoo artist. Charlie and guest W. C. Fields are at it once again! |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-01-03 | Edgar tries to get back into vaudeville with guest Ken Murray. Don Ameche reads a poem called, "Post Christmas Ballad." The final 14:46 of the program only. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-01-10 | Dale sings, "Clancey From Delancey." Bergen is wearing a zoot suit and takes a ribbing for doing so. He takes his date Phoebe dancing at the Palladium. Guest Gene Krupa plans an up-tempo number. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-01-17 | Don sings, "Fine and Dandy." Charlie wants to get a job in an aircraft factory, but first needs a birth certificate. This leads Edgar to tell Charlie how he came to be found on Edgar's doorstep. Charlie and guest Paulette Goddard go camping in the north woods. Don tells the story of a bomber called, "The Susie Q." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-01-24 | A special one hour broadcast in honor of the Quartermaster Corps and Standard Brands' Peekskill, New York plant being awarded an Army-Navy "E" Award. The show starts with Don Ameche singing the song of the Quartermaster Corps. Edgar tries to talk Charlie into taking piano lessons from guest Jose Iturbi. Don Ameche and Jeanette MacDonald appear in, "Pick-Up," by Adelyn Bushnell and Marshall Bradford. Jeanette MacDonald sings, "The Marine Corps Hymn" and other service songs. Dale Evans and The Sportsmen sing, "Out Of This World." Deputy Chief of Staff Joseph McNierny speaks from Washington, D.C. Charlie and Jeanette compare notes about freckles. A visit to "McCarthy's Last Chance Beauty Saloon." Jose Iturbi plays the 11th Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt and Gershwin's first and third Preludes. The commercials are all tributes to the Quartermaster Corps. This program is Pat Patrick's last appearance before entering the army. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-02-07 | Charlie has just returned from a visit to the White House. He's still trying to find his birth certificate. Bill Thompson talks about "Gremlins." A "Gremlin" named Harvey pays a visit. Guest Teresa Wright joins Charlie in a domestic drama. Bill does his W. C. Fields imitation as, "Horation K. Boomer." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-02-14 | Charlie has placed a personal ad in the newspaper, seeking his real parents. He consults a mystic named, "Horace Scope." Bill Thompson and the "news" (he imitates Hitler). Guest Charles Ruggles tries to sell Bergen a haunted house. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-03-07 | "Here We Go Again" (the movie with Edgar Bergen) did not win the Academy Award...by a wide margin. Charlie has been taking dancing lessons. Bill Thompson and the "news." Buddy Twiss presents, "Snifter," his talking Mastiff (well, he's at half-mastiff). A visit to Tokyo in 1948...there is no Tokyo in 1948. During a visit to "Berlin," Bill Thompson imitates Hitler. Guest Sidney Greenstreet goes into the detective business with Charlie. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-04-04 | Charlie develops a case of the mumps in order to avoid tomorrow's history test. Bill Thompson calls himself "Spud" (because he's a "common tater") and takes the listeners inside a German U-boat, doing all the voices. Guest Mary Boland is a, "P. O. O. F." ("Protector Of Our Feather Friends"). The duck-billed platypus is refered to as extinct. The same routine was subsequently on the program with Billie Burke, on October 22, 1944 (see cat. #84061). |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-04-11 | Bergen tries to explain Spring and the solar system to Charlie. Dale Evans sings "You're A Shot In The Arm To Me." Bill Thompson talks about "Flagaria," in a talk titled "Notes To You." Guest Martha Raye has just returned from her four month U. S. O. tour and sings, "Pigfoot Pete." The cast does a skit set in the mysterious East. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-04-18 | Guest Ronald Colman appreals for help for the United States Crop Corps and tells Charlie the story of "Random Harvest." Mortimer Snerd discusses his plans for the coming planting season. Guests Victor Moore and William Gaxton are running a draft board (they answer the phone, "Swing and Sway with Class 1-A")! |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-04-25 | The program opening has been upcut. Bergen tries to explain short wave radio to Charlie. Bill Thompson is leaving for Flageria to make a movie. He performs a Flagerian western (all voices by Thompson ?). Guest Irene Dunne joins Charlie on a Mississippi showboat in, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-05-02 | Charlie's growing a moustache. Dale sings, "Canteen Bounce." Bill Thompson reports from "Flageria" (in his "Wallace Wimple" voice and Negro, German and Swedish dialects). Guest Barbara Stanwyck volunteers to be Charlie's manager and get a raise for him from Bergen. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-05-09 | Edgar helps Charlie fill out a withholding tax form. Guest William Gaxton gives crooning lessons to guest Victor Moore. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-05-23 | Charlie has become a printer, specializing in phoney report cards. Bill Thompson describes "Gremites," household pests related to "Gremlins." Guest Charles Boyer is planning to produce a new picture. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-05-30 | The first tune is, "Something For The Boys." Bergen has gotten a black eye while umpiring a baseball game. Mortimer Snerd was selling hot dogs at the game. Guest Walter Pidgeon is interviewed by Charlie for his school newspaper. The last show of the season. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-09-05 | The first show of the season. The first tune is, "Riding For A Fall." William Gaxton tries to sell Victor Moore a pair of shoes. Guest Jean Arthur tells Charlie the story of "Goldilocks." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-09-12 | Dale Evans sings, "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old." Guest Humphrey Bogart helps Charlie run his new jail...as a potential prisoner. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-10-17 | The program originates from New York City. Mortimer Snerd in the subway. Guest William Gaxton is a detective looking for a lost horse...Trigger has been stolen! The Sons Of The Pioneers sing, "Cool Water." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-11-07 | Charlie is a movie agent with 14-year-old Jane Powell for a client. She sings, "Summertime" with her usually spectacular voice. Jane gets no mention during the opening billboard. In what sounds like a throw-away skit with no introduction, Bill Gaxton tries to get Victor Moore to invest in the airplane business.
Bob Burns is determined not to lie and always tell the truth. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-11-21 | The program originates from the Terminal Island Naval Air Station, Long Beach, California. Charlie is angry at Bergen for sleep-walking during his party. Fourteen-year-old Jane Powell sings, "Some Day My Prince Will Come." Victor Moore and William Gaxton do a comedy routine as naval recruits. Guest Hedy Lamarr needs a plumber. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1943-12-05 | Edgar and Charlie chat with Fats Waller. Ray Noble joins the conversation. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-01-23 | The first tune is, "Can't You Do A Friend A Favor?" Charlie's been offered a job as a photographer's model. Charlie takes guest Greer Garson out "slumming" for the evening. Anita Ellis sings, "Besame Mucho" (possibly her first appearance on the program). |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-01-30 | Edgar tries to explain inflation and economics to Charlie. He tells Charlie the story of King Midas. Scotland Yard calls on guest Basil Rathbone to solve a double murder at Wuthering Heights. The homicidal monster turns out to be...Mortimer! |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-02-06 | Charlie, Skinny Dugan and Wilbur have taken a railroad hand-car on the main track. Guest Susan Hayward and Charlie are back in the Stone Age. They visit the, "Pre-Histork Club." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-02-20 | A classic routine with Charlie and guest W.C. Fields. A confrontation in a barbershop. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-02-27 | Charlie and Skinny Dugan have caused an explosion with their chemistry set. Guest Dorothy Lamour joins Charlie in a play about knighthood. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-03-05 | Charlie has rearranged the furniture. The Ming vase was broken after Charlie tried to make doughnuts. Bergen belches on the air and Charlie ad libs several quips. Guest Jane Powell (billed as fourteen-years-old) sings, "Oh! What A Beautiful Morning." Charlie has hired guest Cecil B. DeMille to help him put on a play called, "The Pied Piper." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-03-12 | Guest Charlie Ruggles tries to sell Edgar an old car. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-03-19 | An unidentified tenor sings, "I'm Riding Back To Arizona." Charlie has a black eye. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-03-26 | Edgar teaches Charlie about the brain. Fourteen year old Jane Powell sings, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." Charle and guest W.C. Fields are out on the golf course. W.C. loses his place in the script and his line is read by Charlie! The program opening is upcut and wows twice as transcribed. The system cue has been deleted. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-04-02 | Edgar Bergen with Orson Welles. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-09-17 | The program originates from the Small Craft Training Center, Roosevelt Navy Base, Terminal Island California. Edgar tells Charlie the story of "Hansel and Gretel." The program is possibly dated September 11, 1944. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-10-01 | Charlie swears off women forever. Guest Olivia De Havilland volunteers to be his bodyguard. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-10-08 | 8:00 P.M. The first tune is, "Acapulco." Schuyler Charlie Van Snort has be allowed into Charlie's "Ratslugger's Club." Effie Klinker plans to be a movie star. Guest Jose Iturbi plans to have Charlie and the Ratsluggers put on a musical show. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-10-15 | This is possibly Joan Merrill's first appearance on the show. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-10-22 | Charlie plans to raise frogs in the bathtub. Effie Clinker appears. Edgar speaks on behalf of the Canadian Seventh Victory Loan. Guest Billie Burke is a member of "P.O. O. F." ("Protectors Of Our Feathered Friends") The duck-billed playpus is mentioned as being extinct. The same routine was previously used on the program on April 4, 1943, with Mary Boland (see cat. #84042). |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-10-29 | Edgar tries to tell a ghost story. Guest Orson Welles conducts a tour through a museum's dinosaur exhibit. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-11-05 | Joan Merrill sings "This Must Be Love." Edgar gets arrested for vagrancy and comes up before Judge Welles (guest Orson Welles). Orson and Edgar meet on the streets of New York fifty years in the future (1995)! A visit from guest John Robert Powers (the founder of the Powers Model Agency) prompts Charley to try to date one of the models. Effie Clinker decides that she would like to be a "Powers Girl." See cat. #6756 for an excerpt rebroadcast on the AFRS series "To The Rear March." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-11-12 | Charlie's adventures at the zoo. Mortimer winds up in the baboon cage. A visit to the Scrawny Arms Hotel. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-11-26 | Charlie is now a mother! Professor Irwin Corey lectures on the subject of "hot jazz" and is not very funny. Lauritz sings (for the first time on radio), "Lonely Night." Charlie and the cast are aboard a Viking ship, heading to discover America. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-12-03 | Charlie the glassblower. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-12-10 | Charlie tries to sell his pet porcupine, and then answers a lonely hearts ad for Bergen. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-12-17 | A celebration of Charlie's 8th anniversary on radio. The first tune is, "Blue Skies." Edgar tells Charlie about the facts of live. Don Ameche tries to sell Ray an insurance policy...it's a routine that ends with a terrible pun. Edgar, Charlie and guest Rudy Vallee recall how Rudy gave them their first job on the radio. AFRS program name: "Charlie McCarthy." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-12-17 | It's Edgar's and Charlie's 8th anniversary of their career in radio. Edgar tries to teach Charlie about girls. Don tries to sell Ray insurance for his cat (which ends in a terrible pun). The cast and guest Rudy vallee recalls the first time Edgar and Charlie auditioned for Rudy back in 1936. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-12-24 | Charlie tries to recite, "The Night Before Christmas." Don Ameche as "Professor Gozola" gives Charlie a singing lesson. The first tune is "Don't Fence Me In." AFRS program name: "Christmas Program #3." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1944-12-31 | Effie Clinker meets Don Ameche. Bergen's planning a New Year's Eve Party. He's going to play Father Time and Charlie will portray little 1945 (Charlie is somewhat reluctant). Don Ameche lectures on "skiing." Guest Charles Laughton and Charlie go back in time to visit with Christopher Columbus, Gazola, Henry VIII, Napoleon and Josephine, Sir Isaac Newton, Nero. One commercial has apparently been deleted. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-01-07 | The program originates from the Twenty-First Ferrying Group of the Ferrying Division of the Air Transport Command, Palm Springs, California. Guest Carmen Miranda appears in, "Cornsilk Alley," a hillbilly drama. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-01-14 | Charlie tries to make Edgar sick. Guest Louis Bromfield discusses farm animals with Charlie, as does Mortimer Snerd. Effie Klinker takes a dancing lesson. Don Ameche does a touching tribute to the memory of Benjamin Franklin. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #10308. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-01-14 | Charlie tries to make Edgar sick. Guest author Louis Bromfield discusses farm animals with Charlie, as does Mortimer Snerd. Effie Klinker takes dancing lessons. See cat. #63734 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-01-28 | Edgar Bergen and Charlie broadcast from New York, the rest of the cast is in Hollywood. The first tune is, "Get Happy." Bergen has had his tea leaves read. Bergen reads Charlie's palm. Guest Frank Sinatra sings, "There's No You" and "The Very Thought Of You." Charlie wants to be Sinatra's agent. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-02-04 | Bergen tells Charlie the story of "The Tortoise and The Hare." A psychologist named Dr. Albert Wiggam tries to find out why Charlie is so obnoxious. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-02-11 | Charlie receives a threatening letter. Guest Dorothy Lamour and Charlie appear in an Eskimo drama. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-02-18 | The program originates from the Marine Air Station, Belinda, California. The first tune is, "I'm Beginning To See The Light." Charlie has cracked into society and he's going with a wealthy girl named, "Snooky Wooky Poo." Guest Veronica Lake joins Charlie in teaching the Marines how to win a bride. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-02-25 | The program originates from a California naval hospital. Joan Merrill sings, "A Little On The Lonely Side." Charlie is now a hero. He's saved an heiress from a runaway horse. Mortimer has seen a seven-foot chicken at the farm of Mr. Ostrich. Guest Gene Tierney joins "Dr. Gazola" in the hospital. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-03-04 | The program originates from the Victorville Army Airfield in California. The first tune is, "Sweetheart Of All My Dreams." Charlie has received a $500 reward for bravery. Effie Klinker makes an appearance. The cast does a desert Arabian drama. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-03-11 | The program originates from the Naval Auxilary Air Station, Twenty-Nine Palms, California. The first tune is, "Please Don't Say No." Charlie has hired a bodyguard. "A Bud Blooms In Brooklyn," Charlie's version of the new movie with guest Joan Blondell. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #22723. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-03-11 | The program originates from the Naval Auxilary Air Station, Twenty-Nine Palms, California. The first tune is, "Please Don't Say No." Charlie has hired a bodyguard. "A Bud Blooms In Brooklyn," Charlie's version of the new movie with guest Joan Blondell. See cat. #99700 for a network, sponsored version of this program. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-03-18 | The program originates from Williams Army Airfield, Chandler, Arizona. The first tune is, "Button Up Your Overcoat." Bergen tries to talk into Charlie into opening a joint checking account. Mortimer Snerd is working on a crossword puzzle. Charlie and Maria travel on a flying carpet. They see a flight a pigeons...they're in "squab" formation. They land on the cannibal Hanka Island (Ray Noble is the "Hanka Chief"). |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-03-25 | The program originates from Luke Field, Arizona. Edgar tells Charlie the story of "Little Red Riding Hood." A visit to the Cliff Dwellers in the Petrified Forest. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-04-01 | The program originates from the Miramar, California, Marine Air Corps Depot. Joan Merrill sings, "Let's Take The Long Way Home." Charlie has a baby aligator. Guest Linda Darnell is studying sculpture and wants Charlie to model for her. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-04-08 | What has Charlie done with all of Bergen's electrical appliances? He's built a mechanical man named, "Rusty." Bergen has bought a rowing machine and discusses it with Mortimer. Guest Jack Oakie is running a target shooting gallery at a carnival. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-04-22 | The program originates from the Santa Barbara Redistribution Center. Charlie has bought a gold mine from a crook. Effie Clinker makes an appearance. Guest Rita Hayworth and the boys go to an auction. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-04-29 | The program originates from Redistribution Station #3, Santa Monica. Charlie has been chosen honorary Fire Chief during Boys Club Week. Guest Ida Lupino visits the firehouse. Mortimer Snerd appears as a policeman. There's a fire at the corner of Dun and Bradstreet! |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-05-13 | The program originates from The Murock Army Airfield, Murock, California. Bergen has disappeared after running over Edward Everett Horton's lawn and smashing his fountain. Lawyer Gazola takes the case, he calls Effie Clinker to the stand. Gazola wants testimony, Effie wants matrimony. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-05-20 | The program originates from Norman, Oklahoma. Charlie leaves Bergen and strikes out on his own (again)! |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-09-02 | The first show of the season. Charlie and Edgar are reunited after being separated on a railroad train. The first tune is, "These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You." Mortimer is running a hat check business,. Carmen Miranda sings, "Tai." Charlie and his friends attend a television lecture. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-09-09 | Edgar Bergen loses his memory, so Charlie and guest Keenan Wynn take him to a psychiatrist. See cat. #101706 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-09-09 | 8:00 P.M. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #1571. The first tune is, "So In Love." When Bergen loses his memory, Charlie and guest Keenan Wynn take him to a psychiatrist. The system cue has been deleted. |
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| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-09-13 | Anita Gordon sings, "No Can Do." Charlie has charged a large amount of candy and desserts, forging Bergen's name. Guest Fred Allen has been out of work, so he applies for a job with Charlie as a replacement for Bergen. Mortimer Snerd tries to impress Anita. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-09-16 | 8:00 P.M. Bergen tries to explain radar to Charlie. Later, Edgar invite his friends aboard his newly inherited yacht, "The Christina." Mortimer Snerd explains his new job as a weatherman. Anita Gordon makes her first appearance on the program and is introduced as a 15-year-old-vocalist. She was actually 31 at the time! Bergen predicts what post-war electronics will be like. Fascinating listening. The program opening is upcut. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-09-23 | Bergen is planning to leave for New York, but has some difficulty buying a ticket. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-09-30 | Bergen has a fight with Charlie, so Charlie plans to have guest Fred Allen take over as ventriloquist. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-10-08 | Rebroadcast as part of "To The Rear March" (see cat. #10286). Orson is a museum guide. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-10-14 | Charlie and guest Hildegarde go shopping for a present for Bergen. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-10-21 | Charlie has started an oyster farm, he's feeding them string so the pearls will come out already strung! "Weekend At Joe's Flophouse," a drama with guest Fred Allen. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-10-28 | Charlie has gotten into a fight, defending Bergen's honor. The first tune is, "The Breeze and I." This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #53179. The first 20:09 only. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-10-28 | Charlie has gotten into a fight defending Bergen's honor. Guest Boris Karloff brings Charlie and his friends to a haunted house. See cat. #102066 for a network, sponsored version of this program. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-11-04 | Guest Elsa Maxwell and Charlie have a fight at one of her parties. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-11-11 | The program originates from Oklahoma and the guest is Governor Kerr of that state. Charlie pretends he's the Governor. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-11-18 | Charlie and guest Margaret O'Brien do, "The Courtship of Miles Standish." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-11-25 | Charlie's running a beauty salon. What can he do for guest Vera Vague? This recording appears as part of "To The Rear March," AFRS #38 (see cat. #10283). Another excerpt appears on "To The Rear March" AFRS #41 (see cat. #67983). |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-12-02 | Charlie is helping old man Dugan spend his newly found money. Guest Walter Pidgeon joins Charlie and the cast in their version of "Weekend At The Waldorf." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-12-16 | Guest Susan Hayward, Edgar and Charlie visit an observatory to look at some heavenly bodies! |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1945-12-23 | Charlie is just back from a rustic cabin. It was soooo cold! Edgar and Charlie discuss winter sports. Edgar tries to explain to Mortimer how radio works. Guest Margaret O'Brien is going to go to the North Pole with Charlie. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-01-06 | 8:00 P.M. Mortimer was a wallflower at the New Year's Eve party. Guest Roy Rogers and The Sons Of The Pioneers sing a delightful, "The Prairie's My Home." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-01-13 | Charlie and the truant officer. Mortimer writes a letter. Edgar makes a mistake on his income tax and tells it to tax man, played by guest Chester Morris. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-01-20 | Bergen takes Charlie and guest Rita Hayworth to the "Brown Fedora" restaurant. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-02-03 | Edgar and Charlie have just returned from Palm Springs. Charlie has been practising for his Boy Scout test. He's swallowed a bullet and see "Doctor" Everett Edward Horton. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-02-10 | The first tune is, "Acapulco." Wealthy Schuyler Van Snort has been initiated into Charlie's, "Rat Slugger's Club." Effie Clinker plans to be a movie star. Guest Jose Iturbi tries to convince Charlie to have the "Rat Sluggers" put on a show. Iturbi plays a Chopin waltz (the audio is poor) and, "The Boogie With The Fringe On Top." The date is subject to correction and might be October 8, 1944. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-02-17 | Charlie tries to sell Bergen some of his herb medicine. Ray's newspaper prints a photo of Bergen in the bathtub. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-02-24 | Charlie is unhappy with the dancing lessons he's being forced to take. Mortimer has a new Spring suit. Guest Tallulah Bankhead appears with Charlie in a play set in the Kingdom of Miscellania. A funny, well-written skit. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-03-03 | Edgar blows his first lines by forgetting to use Charlie's "voice." Bergen tells Charlie the story of the ugly duckling. Mortimer's new fountain pen. Honorary police chief McCarthy meets arch-criminal Walter Slezak. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-03-10 | Charlie the tattoo artist. The cast does a drama called "The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-03-17 | 8:00 P. M. Charlie's gotten a note from his teacher about his poor knowledge of geography. Guest Margaret O'Brien is very Irish for St. Patrick's day. She wants to be a nurse for animals and run, "The O-Brien-McCarthy Petatorium." Charles refers to W. C. Fields (next week's guest) as, "The winner of the Tournament of Noses." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-03-24 | 8:00 P. M. Charlie's on the run from the cops. Edgar and Charlie go to visit W.C. Fields in a sanitarium. A classic confrontation. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-03-31 | Bergen is the new truant officer! Mortimer recites "Hickory, Dickory, Dock." Charlie and Edgar join guest Roy Rogers for a visit to a ghost town. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-04-07 | Bergen's taken a job a a temporary truant officer. Guest Hedy Lamarr is planning a new post-war home. Charlie and Hedy try for wedded bliss. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-04-14 | Edgar tells Charlie the story of, "The Fox and The Crow." Guest Cornel Wilde joins Charlie in their own version of, "Robin Hood." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-04-21 | Charlie's in love...again! This time, it's with a lady wrestler named Jacqueline. Mortimer Snerd has gone to his first movie show. Guest Margaret O'Brien wants to know if the Easter Rabbit really lays eggs. Charlie and Margaret visit Bunnyville. Edgar has won a Peabody Award for the best comedy show in radio. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-04-28 | The program originates from New York City. Bergen flew across the country by airplane. Mortimer has been robbed. Guest Chester Morris tries to sell Bergen insurance. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-05-12 | Edgar's the new father of a baby girl (Candice was born May 9, 1946). Mortimer's going to play Shakespeare, he's cast to play, "Hambone." Guest Edward Everett Horton is running a garage and has turned Bergen's car into a flying hotrod. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-05-19 | Charlie is suffering from "heart populations." Mortimer Snerd has been sleep-walking. Guest Ethel Barrymore is announced as appearing with Charlie in, "The Merchant Of Venice." She does read Shylock's soliloquy. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-05-26 | Bergen wants to take Charlie's room for the new baby. Mortimer has visited the Museum of Natural History. Charlie babysits for the new baby. The last show of the season. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-09-01 | 8:00 P.M. The first show of the series. Charlie has decided to quit radio. Guest Jimmy Stewart is the campaign manager for Charlie's attempt to be president of, "The Rat Sluggers." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-09-15 | Charlie tries to catch a mouse. Mortimer tries to learn the alphabet. Guest Fred MacMurray tries to teach Ray about football. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-09-29 | Bergen tries to send a message to Charlie by mental telepathy. Charlie visits the library. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-10-06 | Charlie's in love with two girls, twins named Daisy and Maisie. Guest Jack Benny offers Charlie a show of his own. Jack appeared on his own show the same day (see cat. #76246). |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-10-13 | Charlie has gone into the cosmetics business, including a new "smooch-proof" lipstick. Mortimer Snerd is going to try for a job in a grocery store. Guest Lily Pons joins Charlie in the opera, "Lakme" with an "all-plaster cast." Portions of this program were heard on, "To The Rear March" (see cat. #3606). |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-10-27 | Charlie is learning to be a chiropractor, Mortimer learns to count. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-11-03 | Edgar tells Charlie the story of the Goose that laid the Golden Eggs, Mortimer buys winter underwear by mail. Guest Fred Allen rents Bergen an apartment down in Allen's Alley. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-11-10 | Bergen teaches Charlie about allergies, Mortimer's trip to New York. A trip across New York harbor in guest Charles Laughton's tugboat. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-11-17 | Bergen teaches Charlie about expense accounts, a trip back in time to visit Sir Walter Raleigh, building Mortimer's vocabulary. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1946-11-24 | The program originates from Baltimore. Edgar has a black eye, Mortimer buys presents for his cow Bessie. Edgar, Ray and Ersel Twing join Charlie and guest Edward Everett Horton hunting ducks. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-01-05 | Charlie is going to meet his French penpal. Mortimer Snerd tries to remember the months of the year. Guest Charles Boyer is going to be Charlie's interpreter as he romances his French friend. Bergen chokes on the words as he tries to read a public service announcement near the end of the program. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-01-12 | Bergen has been called to jury duty. Mortimer forgets why he has a string on his finger. Guest Edward Arnold is running a used car lot. Charlie is looking to buy a car for Bergen's "tenth anniversary" (with Chase and Sanborn). |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-01-19 | The tenth anniversary program of the program. The program starts with a recreation of how Bergen and McCarthy came to be hired for their first appearance on, "The Rudy Vallee Show. Mortimer Snerd turns down a chance to kiss Dorothy Lamour. Don Ameche appears as Dr. Gazola, the dentist, when Charlie gets a toothache. The show ends early and the closing drags on with repeated playings of the theme. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-01-26 | Charlie has a pocket full of silkworms. They're the start of "Charlie's Wormatorium." Edgar trips over the word, "metamorphosis." Mortimer Snerd gets a lesson in grammar. Guest Roy Rogers joins the cast on a dude ranch and gives riding lessons on "Trigger." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-02-02 | Edgar tells Charlie the story of, "The Pied Piper Of Hamelin." Mortimer plans to be a movie star. Guest Jane Wyman joins Edgar and Charlie is their own version of, "The Yearling." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-02-09 | Charlie hasn't been paid for cleaning the attic. He threatens to read the poems written by Bergen when he was young. Bergen misreads the script and Charlie covers for him! Mortimer Snerd has gotten an electric shock...it hurt in his "liverwurst." Guest Nelson Eddy receives a cold welcome from Charle, Ray and Anita. They're afraid he's going to come back to the show. He sings, "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-02-16 | It's Edgar's birthday, the gang has chipped in for a cigarette lighter as a present. Charlie plans to get rid of guest Nelson Eddy, who does a comedy routine with Billy Burke at, "The Artists Overseas Service Guild." Nelson sings, "Shadrach." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-02-23 | Charlie has gotten a letter from a very rich, little, old lady (Morganbilt Astorfeller), who wants to adopt him. Bergen asks Mortimer Snerd to be a babysitter. Nelson sings, "It's A Good Day." The system cue has been deleted. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-03-02 | Charlie has been caught telling too many lies. Mortimer Snerd is in the shoe shining business. Charlie has driven Bergen's car into a fire hydrant. Nelson files the insurance claim for Charlie, with Chester Morris, the insurance adjuster. Nelson sings, "The Ranger Song." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-03-09 | Bergen overslept this morning. Charlie offers Edgar his wake-up service. Mortimer has to memorize a poem for school. Charlie has won the prize as, "Model American Boy." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-03-16 | At the start of the show, Ken Carpenter mentions that the program originates from Mexico City. At the end of the show, Ken admits that he's really in Hollywood. Edgar tells Charlie an old Mexican folk tale about a shoemaker who wanted to be a donkey. Margo takes Edgar and Charlie for a tour of Mexican attractions. An unidentified Mariachi band plays a spirited, "Guadalajara." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-03-30 | Charlie has joined, "The Underpaid Ventriloquist's Assistants Benevolent Association." Guest Edward Everett Horton is running a pet shop and Bergen wants to buy a dog. Edward Everett Horton refuses to sell one of his two rabbits, "because that would be splitting hares." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-04-06 | The program features a very funny Bickersons skit. Charlie goes duck hunting. The date is subject to correction. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-06-21 | The first tune is, "I Never Knew." Guest Judy Garland sees something funny during the show and laughs off-mike for almost 10 minutes. Charlie's cooking clams with Edgar's Stanley Steamer. Abbott and Costello borrow money to buy a farm. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-09-14 | Bergen is trying to duck a lawyer. Mortimer is selling newspapers, while Edgar has inherited a building. One of the tenants is guest Michael Romanoff (who has some trouble reading his lines). Edgar has bought Charlie a briefcase. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-09-21 | The program originates from Pasadena, California. Bergen tells Charlie his version of "Jack and The Beanstalk." Guest Walt Disney brings his friend Donald Duck along for a visit. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-09-28 | The program originates from Santa Monica, California. A date with guest Betty Hutton? |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-10-05 | The program originates from Pasadena, California. A visit to lawyer Gazola. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-10-12 | The program originates from Whittier, California. There are black eyes on Bergen and Mortimer Snerd. The show features a Columbus Day skit with Charlie as Columbus about his meeting with Queen Lindabella (guest Linda Darnell). |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-10-19 | The program originates from Occidental College, Los Angeles. Bergen tells the story of "Aladdin and His Lamp." Mortimer at the amusement park, Charlie the hospital patient. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-10-26 | The program originates from Van Nuys High School, Van Nuys, California. Guest: Richard Widmark. Charlie is running a protection racket and visits "The Bronze Casket Cafe" at 1313 Skull Street. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-11-02 | Charley's got a toothache. Mortimer Snerd went to a Halloween party. After Charley goes to the dentist, he dreams about hell..and there's Fred Allen. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-11-09 | Edgar's hurt himself while riding a horse named...Edgar Bergen! Mortimer's gotten a job washing windows. Charlie has gotten guest Maurice Evans to help him stage a Shakespearean drama, but guest Lulu McConnell owns the barn! Romeo and Juliet will never be the same. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-11-16 | Charlie describes his experiences driving a bus. Mortimer has fallen in love with a department store dummy. Guest Lana Turner helps Bergen get incriminating love letters back from Charlie. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-11-23 | The program originates from the Pasadena Playhouse. Bergen tells Charlie the story of Robinson Crusoe. Edgar tells Mortimer about Eskimos. Guest Carmen Miranda appears in Charlie's opera, "Carmen." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-11-30 | Charlie's raising rabbits. Mortimer Snerd has a cold...or is that pepper he's carrying? Edgar takes Charlie to a psychiatrist...it's guest Edward Everett Horton! |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-12-07 | The program originates from Claremont Men's College. Edgar teaches Charlie about the brain. Guest Roy Rogers joins the cast for their version of a western movie. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-12-14 | The program originates from Los Angeles City College. Did Edgar really put poison in Charlie's Christmas candy? Mortimer Snerd wants to sell his mule. Guest Gary Cooper gets Santa Claus lessons from Charlie and cracks up on the air. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1947-12-21 | Charlie romances guest Claudette Colbert. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-01-11 | The program originates from University High School, West Los Angeles. Charlie the foot doctor. Mortimer Snerd has been invited to a party. Ray Noble romances guest Lucille Ball during leap year! The date is approximate. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-02-01 | The program originates from Tulane University, New Orleans. Bergen has been accused of being a bank robber. Charlie and guest Madeleine Carrol are running a French restaurant. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-03-21 | Mortimer Snerd has gotten a job as a city street sweeper in Snerdville. Charlie meets Alfred Hitchcock (who has been tied up filming "Rope"). |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-04-04 | The program originates from Fullerton Junior College, Fullerton, California. Edgar, the bird-watcher, describes Ken Murray's Academy Award-winning short film, "Bill and Coo." Guest Ken Murray teaches Charlie "Bird Language." Barbara Bel Geddes and Rudy Vallee appear with Charlie in a scene from, "I Remember Mama." Edgar Bergen had appeared in the movie version. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-05-02 | The program originates from Santa Monica High School. Charley is interested in astronomy. Mortimer plans to get a dog...with mustard! Charlie and his pal Gimlet open their own observatory, |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-05-09 | Charlie is in disguise after breaking a window with a baseball. The band plays, "In My Merry Oldsmobile," with a samba rhythm. Bergen makes a recording of Mortimer's voice. Guest Don Ameche appears as "Gazola" (the lawyer). Gazola tries to get Charlie a hotel room in Washington, D. C. for next week. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-05-16 | The program originates from The New Line Arena, Washington D. C. Portions of the commercials have been deleted. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-05-23 | The program originates from New York City. Charlie tells Bergen about his collection of insects and bugs. Mortimer Snerd has gotten a letter from one of his fans. Guest Groucho Marx is having trouble with the New York subway. Since it runs through his basement, Groucho wants to install a toll gate. Pat Patrick and Groucho throw ad libs at each other; they sound like they're getting nasty with each other on the air. Pat Patrick more than holds his own against Groucho. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-05-30 | The program originates from New York City. Bergen is planning a vacation in Sweden. He tells Charlie the story of the Vikings. Mortimer Snerd has gotten a job as a "sandwich man." Bergen wants Charlie to change his name to, "Axel McCarthy." Guest Morton Downey upbraids Charlie as a traitor to the Irish. The last show of the season. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-10-03 | The first show of the season. The Bickersons: Blanche is upset that John has come home late. She's bought a turtle-neck evening gown! The cast sings, "Maybe It's Beacuse I'm A Londoner." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-10-10 | The program originates from the auditiorium of the Los Angeles Mirror, celebrating the start of the newspaper. Charlie is the guest of the editor. The show's opening is particularly well-written and the band swings out with, "Good News." Mortimer Snerd is working at the building's information desk. The Bickerson: John and Blanche are at the train station. Uncle Thurman's will is to be read. Great Bickersons! |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-10-24 | Bergen tells Charlie the story of, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." "Professor Ravenscroft" is identified as the leader of the show's Glee Club, called, "The Java Jivers." The Bickersons: Dr. Hersey has examined John's snoring problem. Blanche bought herself a $300 diamond ring. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-10-31 | Charlie's lost his little black address book. Don't miss the band's hot arrangement of, "The Gypsy" and, "The Twelfth Street Rag." Edgar discusses the presidential election with Mortimer Snerd. Don Ameche is out with laryngitis; Charlie's married to Marsha Hunt! |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-11-07 | Charlie has found Bergen's wallet. The Bickersons: John is in the hospital to have his uvula shortened to stop his snoring (see cat. #21777 for a similar script done a year earlier with Frances Langford). Don Ameche also appears as professor Gazola, owner of an Italian restaurant. He plans to hire Charlie's Glee Club. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-11-14 | Bergen has cut off Charlie's allowance after he's mixed gunpowder with Bergen's tobacco. Charlie is planning to sue Edgar. Ken sings a "coffee calyso;" the rest of the cast joins in. The Bickersons: Blanche is upset that John has come home late. She's made a long distance call. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-11-21 | Bergen starts the show in error by reading Charlie's first line in his "Bergen" voice...and apologizes to the audience. Edgar tells Charlie the story of, "The Ugly Duckling." Mortimer Snerd has been invited to a formal Thansgiving dinner. Ray Noble imitates Walter Winchell as a BBC announcer would sound. "Ronald Smew" does a Chase and Sanborn commercial. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-11-28 | Charlie has been seen sneaking into the "Burbank Follies Theatre." Bergen tries to teach Charlie to tell the truth. What does Mortimer sing when he milks his cow? "Whistle While You Squirt." The Bickersons: John has forgotten to pick up Blanche at the railroad station. She bought a "fly-by-night" stock. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-12-05 | Charlie is planning to go to Mexico. Mortimer has been working as a magician's assistant. Ersel Twing sings a Chase and Sanborn commercial set to Mexican music. The Bickersons: John and Blanche are on an overnight train to San Francisco. Blanche gets stuck in an upper berth. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-12-12 | Charlie is being sent to reform school. Edgar has taken Mortimer Snerd for a flight in his new airplane. Ken Carpenter celebrated making his "two-thousandth transcontinetal broadcast" last week. The middle commercial is done as a western called, "Black Coffee." Blanche claims that she has a sprained ankle. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-12-19 | Edgar tells Charlie the story of the time Santa's reindeer went out on strike. Mortimer Snerd is getting married! The Bickersons exchange gifts on Christmas Eve. Guest Mario Lanza sings, "The Lord's Prayer." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1948-12-26 | The program includes a comedy routine by "The Bickersons." The last Charlie McCarthy Show sponsored by Chase and Sanborn Coffee. A review of Edgar's career. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1949-10-02 | The first show of the season, the first show sponsored by Coca Cola, the first show of the series on the CBS net. Charlie imitates Jimmy Fidler as a gossip columnist. Bergen and McCarthy have trouble getting into the studio and are unhappy with their dressing room. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1949-10-09 | Edgar and Charlie read a review of last week's season-opening show. Mortimer tries to read a letter. Guest Dorothy Shay joins the cast in a hillbilly drama. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1949-11-13 | The program originates from, "The Pasadena Playhouse." Bergen's usual theme song is played at a slower-than-usual tempo. Faster is better. Edgar is concerned about Charlie's future. What will he become when he grows older? In comes Jim Backus as a vocational guidance counselor. Charlie wants to be a private eye. Dick Powell appears as "Richard Diamond, Private Eye." Dick sings, "A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One," in the style of Gilbert & Sullivan. Charlie gets his first case. A beautiful girl offers $500 to solve her case, of "The Eagle's Eye." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1949-12-11 | The program originates from Southgate (California) High School. Charlie and his friend Gimlet try to get a secret recording of Hoagy singing. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1949-12-18 | Guest June Allyson sings, "Thou Swell." Edgar, Charlie and June are going to visit a museum to see the old armor. Mortimer Snerd declines to accompany them. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1950-01-22 | null |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1951-03-04 | null |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1951-11-11 | Professor Van Toggleswitch has come to visit Mortimer Snerd. Charlie has invented a radar to detect approaching blondes. Guest Jussi Bjoerling sings, "The Neapolitan Love Song." Charlie plans to be Jussi Bjoerling's travel manager. A visit to a mad travel agency. The Bjoerlings sing a duet from, "Romeo and Juliet." |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1951-12-16 | Charlie tries to get out of school because of a case of nerves. Guest Frankie Laine sings, "Wonderful, Wasn't It?" and "Jezebel." Bergen's giving a party; Charlie negotiates with the caterer. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1952-03-16 | Charlie and the steam shovel. Guest Jo Stafford sings, "Nightingale." Charlie becomes "Big Charlie," the gangster. Mortimer at the zoo. |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1953-03-01 | null |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | 1953-11-22 | The program is also referred to as, "The Edgar Bergin and Charlie McCarthy Show." Charlie has become a "pest exterminator." Charlie and guest Ronald Reagan produce the historical drama, "Ben Him." |
| EXCERPTS | | | Charlie with John Barrymore, & Charlie with W.C. Fields |
| The Charlie Mccarthy Show | | | Charlie's case of nerves. |
