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Edgar Bergen And Charlie McCarthy

An Episode Guide and Brief History by Martin Grams, Jr. Edgar Bergen made his first radio appearance on Rudy Vallee's The Royal Gelatin Hour on December 16, 1936. In May 1937 Chase and Sanborn began sponsoring The Chase and Sanborn Hour, starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, broadcast 8 to 9 p.m. EST over NBC with Don Ameche as master of ceremonies. Werner Janssen conducted the music for the first seven broadcasts, Robert Armbruster from episode eight; later Ray Noble and his Orchestra. The program ran until 1948 (after ~500 broadcasts, went off the air Dec 26, 1948), revived by Coca-Cola from Oct 1949; moved to CBS Oct 1953. Guide first compiled by Grams in the late 1990s and printed in three consecutive issues of SPERDVAC's Radiogram in late 1999.

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