
Command Performance
Christmas 1948 Hy Averback Announcer
December 25, 1948
Gene Autry performs "Here Comes Santa Claus" with the Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby, while Canadian performers Lisa Roy and Jacques Martin contribute songs in both English and French. The Hoosier Hot Shots present a comedy piece called "Etiquette," and Chester Lauck and Norris Goff appear as the characters Lum and Abner, with Lum delivering his own rendition of "The Night Before Christmas." The episode concludes with a Christmas drama titled "This One Brief Moment" about a boy, a dog, and a dream.
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Hy Averback
Announcer

Andrews Sisters
Cast

Ann Sothern
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Bing Crosby
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Bob Hope
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Cass Daley
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CChester Lauck
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EEdmund Gwenn
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Gene Autry
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Harry Babbitt
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Harry James
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Hoosier Hot Shots
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JJacques Mart
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Jerry Colonna
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Ken Carpenter
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LLauritz Melchior
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LLisa Roy
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Mel Blanc
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NNorris Goff
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PPied Pipers
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William Conrad
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Andy Russell
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Bea Benaderet
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Dinah Shore
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DDonald Crisp
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Edgar Bergen
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Francis X. Bushman
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Frank Nelson
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GGloria De Haven
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HHarry Barris
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Herbert Marshall
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Jack Benny
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JJacques Martin
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Jane Webb
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Jeffrey Silver
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Jimmy Durante
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Marvin Miller
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MMichel Perriere
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RRobert Maxwell
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Robert Young
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Sara Berner
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SShirley Dimsdale
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TThe Richard Davis Choir
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TThe Robert Mitchell Boys Choir
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WWalter Gross
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Walter Tetley
Cast
HHenry Van Dyke
Writer
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