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Fatal Anniversary Present

Frances Langford opens the show with "Blue Skies" as John presents Blanche with a diamond anniversary ring he can't afford. His scheme to pay for it goes sideways and he ends up in jail on suspicion of being a cat burglar. A second version of this broadcast with a different opening song exists as catalog #60869.

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The Bickersons was a series of radio and television comedy sketches which began in 1946 on NBC radio. The show's married protagonists, portrayed by Don Ameche and Frances Langford, spent nearly all their time together in a relentless verbal war.

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“Fatal Anniversary Present.” The Bickersons. Radio broadcast, June 5, 1951.

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