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Guest Star

Heard
1947–1966
Episodes
381

This upload contains 381 episodes of the Old Time Radio show, Guest Star. Presented by the United States Treasury Department and carried as a public service message by the stations that aired the show, Guest Star was essentially a 15-minute infomercial for United States Savings Bonds. The show generally consisted of one big name guest star from stage, screen, music or radio, with musical numbers and a skit that helped extol the virtues of putting your money in US Savings Bonds. The show aired from 1947 until the early 1970s.

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Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 4

  1. Henry Morgan

    · No. 1 · 15 min

  2. Gladys Swartout

    · No. 2 · 15 min

  3. Phil Baker

    · No. 3 · 15 min

  4. Helen Traubel, Lauritz Melchior

    · No. 4 · 15 min

  5. Abbott and Costello

    · No. 5 · 15 min

  6. Alec Templeton

    · No. 6 · 15 min

  7. Jimmy Durante, Gary Moore

    · No. 9 · 14 min

  8. Fibber McGee and Molly

    · No. 10 · 14 min

  9. Beatrice Kaye

    · No. 11 · 15 min

  10. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby

    · No. 12 · 15 min

  11. Perry Como

    · No. 14 · 14 min

  12. Jinx Falkenburg, Tex McCrary

    · No. 15 · 15 min

  13. Red Skelton

    · No. 16 · 15 min

  14. Hildegard

    · No. 17 · 15 min

  15. Basil Rathbone

    · No. 18 · 15 min

  16. Ethel Waters

    · No. 19 · 15 min

  17. Ozzie and Harriet

    · No. 20 · 14 min

  18. Mitzi Green

    · No. 21 · 15 min

  19. Mary Martin

    · No. 22 · 15 min

  20. Mary Small, Jimmy Stewart

    · No. 23 · 15 min

  21. Lena Horne

    · No. 24 · 15 min

  22. Robert Merrill

    · No. 26 · 15 min

  23. Patsy Kelly, Barry Wood

    · No. 27 · 15 min

  24. Don McNeill

    · No. 28 · 14 min

  25. Tallulah Bankhead, Donald Cook

    · No. 29 · 15 min

  26. Josephine Antoine

    · No. 30 · 14 min

  27. The Andrews Sisters

    · No. 31 · 15 min

  28. Milton Berle

    · No. 32 · 15 min

  29. Ginny Simms

    · No. 33 · 15 min

  30. Sir Cedric Hardwick

    · No. 34 · 15 min

  31. Rise Stevens

    · No. 35 · 15 min

  32. Vic Damone

    · No. 36 · 14 min

  33. Susan Reed

    · No. 37 · 15 min

  34. John Garfield

    · No. 38 · 14 min

  35. Greer Garson, Roger Pryor

    · No. 39 · 15 min

  36. Frank Sinatra

    · No. 40 · 14 min

  37. Maxine Sullivan

    · No. 41 · 15 min

  38. Jean Sabalon

    · No. 42 · 14 min

  39. Edward Arnold

    · No. 43 · 15 min

  40. Doris Day

    · No. 44 · 14 min

  41. Diana Lynn

    · No. 45 · 15 min

  42. Buddy Clark

    · No. 46 · 15 min

  43. Thomas Mitchell

    · No. 47 · 15 min

  44. Abe Burrows

    · No. 48 · 15 min

  45. Dorothy Sarnoff, Johnny Guarnieri

    · No. 49 · 15 min

  46. Page Cavanough Trio

    · No. 50 · 15 min

  47. Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians

    · No. 51 · 15 min

  48. Nat King Cole

    · No. 52 · 15 min

  49. George Murphy

    · No. 53 · 14 min

  50. Perry Como

    · No. 54 · 14 min

  51. Bing Crosby

    · No. 56 · 15 min

  52. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby

    · No. 57 · 15 min

  53. Al Jolson

    · No. 58 · 15 min

  54. George Burns and Gracie Allen

    · No. 59 · 15 min

  55. Fanny Brice

    · No. 60 · 15 min

  56. The Great Gildersleeve

    · No. 61 · 15 min

  57. Jo Stafford (Chesterfield Supper Club)

    · No. 62 · 15 min

  58. One Man's Family

    · No. 63 · 14 min

  59. Eddie Cantor

    · No. 64 · 14 min

  60. Fibber McGee and Molly

    · No. 65 · 15 min

  61. Truth Or Consequences

    · No. 66 · 15 min

  62. Jimmy Durante, Peggy Lee

    · No. 68 · 14 min

  63. Dorothy Lamour

    · No. 73 · 15 min

  64. Kay Armen

    · No. 74 · 13 min

  65. Morton Downey

    · No. 75 · 15 min

  66. Nancy Donovan, Skitch Henderson

    · No. 76 · 15 min

  67. Edward Everett Horton

    · No. 79 · 14 min

  68. Dick Haymes

    · No. 80 · 15 min

  69. Alec Templeton

    · No. 81 · 15 min

  70. Peggy Lee, Dave Barber

    · No. 82 · 15 min

  71. Gloria Swanson

    · No. 83 · 16 min

  72. Frances Langford

    · No. 84 · 15 min

  73. Humphrey Bogart

    · No. 85 · 14 min

  74. Andy Russell

    · No. 87 · 15 min

  75. Eve Arden

    · No. 88 · 15 min

  76. Dinah Shore

    · No. 89 · 15 min

  77. Walter Brennan

    · No. 90 · 14 min

  78. Frank Sinatra

    · No. 91 · 15 min

  79. Joan Leslie

    · No. 92 · 15 min

  80. Van Johnson

    · No. 93 · 15 min

  81. Joan Edwards

    · No. 94 · 16 min

  82. Susan Hayward

    · No. 95 · 16 min

  83. Lew Ayres

    · No. 96 · 16 min

  84. Jack Smith

    · No. 97 · 16 min

  85. Anne Blythe

    · No. 98 · 15 min

  86. Pat O'Brien

    · No. 99 · 16 min

  87. Pied Pipers

    · No. 100 · 15 min

  88. Jane Wyatt

    · No. 101 · 15 min

  89. William Gargan

    · No. 102 · 15 min

  90. Lena Horne

    · No. 103 · 15 min

  91. Victor Moore

    · No. 104 · 15 min

  92. Vanessa Brown

    · No. 105 · 15 min

  93. Bob Hannon

    · No. 106 · 15 min

  94. Alan Hale

    · No. 107 · 16 min

  95. Edward Arnold

    · No. 108 · 16 min

  96. Delta Rhythm Boys

    · No. 109 · 15 min

  97. Hugh Herbert

    · No. 110 · 15 min

  98. Claude Rains

    · No. 111 · 16 min

  99. Frank Sinatra

    · No. 112 · 14 min

  100. Jo Stafford

    · No. 113 · 15 min

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