Jack Benny James Cagney
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CBS's special program honoring its 5,000th hour of broadcasting is held in Teheran, where Deanna Durbin introduces the show for which she has come to the Middle East. She greets the audience and makes some lighthearted remarks about her trip.
CBS celebrates reaching 5,000 hours on the air with a special show filmed in Tehran. Deanna Durbin hosts the program after traveling to the Middle East for this event. She welcomes viewers and shares some funny stories about her journey there.
Command Performance was a radio program which originally aired between 1942 and 1949. The program was broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRS) and transmitted by shortwave to overseas troops — but with few exceptions, it was not broadcast over domestic U.S. radio stations.
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