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Kate Smith Hour

Networks
Mutual (as its archives name them)
Heard
1939–1946
Episodes
4
Language
English

For eight years (1937–45), The Kate Smith Hour was a leading radio variety show, offering comedy, music and drama with appearances by top personalities of films and theater. The nationwide audience was introduced to comedy by the show's resident comics, Abbott and Costello and Henny Youngman, while a series of sketches led to The Aldrich Family as a spin-off in 1940. She continued into the 1950s on the Mutual Broadcasting System, CBS, ABC, and NBC, doing both music and talk shows.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Guest Al Jolson

    · 29 min

  2. Guest Jackie Gleason

    · 28 min

  3. Guest Gene Kelly

    · 25 min

  4. Kate Smith Show

    No date given · 29 min

Where it comes from 2

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Kate Smith Hour

    Old Time Radio · 3 episodes here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  2. Kate Smith Show

    Listeners' uploads · Radiorick62 · 1 episode here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

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