The Search For Dr Livingston
The Fred Allen Show debuts its season with the opening number "Roll Out The Barrel," followed by a "midget quiz" featuring three audience members answering questions about "Picking On Harry." Fred exchanges witty insults with guest Ned Sparks, and the Mighty Allen Art Players perform "Stanley and What's-His-Name," a comedic jungle drama that serves as an extended joke targeting Jack Benny.
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The Fred Allen Show was a long-running American radio comedy program starring comedian Fred Allen and his wife Portland Hoffa. Over the course of the program's 17-year run, it was sponsored by Linit Bath Soaps, Hellmann's, Ipana, Sal Hepatica, Texaco and Tenderleaf Tea. The program ended in 1949 under the sponsorship of the Ford Motor Company.
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“The Search For Dr Livingston.” The Fred Allen Show. Radio broadcast, October 4, 1939.
