National The Fred Allen Show Articles, National The Fred Allen Show News

Treadmill to Immortality: Old-time radio listening, 17 March

Town Hall Tonight: St. Patrick’s Day Show (NBC, 1937)It only begins with the Town Hall News pondering how deeply hay fever sufferers are...

A Pair from the Master: Old-time radio listening, 9 January

There is no better way to get back on the horse than with a reminder that there is no such thing as too much of Fred Allen . . .Texaco Star Theater...

Buzzing the buzzards: Old-time radio listening, 27 June

The Fred Allen Show: Cease the Melody (NBC, 1948)Fred Allen has suffered neither fools nor chintzy giveaway shows gladly approaching his last show...

The echo of unforgotten laughter: Old-time radio listening, 26 June

The Fred Allen Show: The Final Show (NBC, 1949)Its epitaph reads BORN OCTOBER 23, 1932, AS THE LINIT SHOW—DIED JUNE 26, 1949, AS THE FRED...

You Were a Briiiiiiiiiii-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight Boy, Leroy! Old-time radio tribute, 2 June

Gary Coleman lived between tragedy and farce before his death of a fall-induced brain hemorrhage earlier this week. But the half-pint one-time Diff...