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The Stan Freberg Show

Networks
CBS (as its archives name them)
Heard
1957
Episodes
16

The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fifteen episodes in 1957–58. The show, starring comedian Stan Freberg and featuring the vocal talents of Daws Butler, June Foray, and Peter Leeds and the musical direction of Billy May, ran in the 7 p.m. timeslot previously occupied by The Jack Benny Program. The show was produced by Pete Barnum with sound effects by Bill James and Gene Twombly.

More about it

Despite its short run, the show managed to develop some running gags and stock jokes, from Freberg's ambivalence toward Madison Avenue (faux advertisements for "Puffed Grass" and "Food", as well as the classic sketch "Gray Flannel Hatful of Teenage Werewolves") to the overwhelmingly popular interviews with a sneaker-wearing Abominable Snowman.

By the thirteenth episode, it was clear that The Stan Freberg Show was suffering from a lack of advertiser interest (perhaps helped by Freberg's werewolf comparisons). CBS canceled the series after fifteen episodes

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Musical Sheep

    · 30 min

  2. Barbara Frichie

    · 29 min

  3. Miss Jupiter

    · 29 min

  4. Great Moments In History

    · 28 min

  5. Orville Arrives From The Moon

    · 29 min

  6. CBS Censor

    · 29 min

  7. The Lone Analyst

    · 29 min

  8. Good Humor Man

    · 29 min

  9. Abominable Snowman Revisited

    · 29 min

  10. Build-It-Yourself Piano

    · 29 min

  11. College Football Report

    · 29 min

  12. Rocket Sled

    · 29 min

  13. How to Repair a Leaky Faucet

    · 29 min

  14. All About Werewolves

    · 29 min

  15. Sponsored by Freberg

    · 29 min

  16. Last Show...The Best Of

    · 28 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. The Stan Freberg Show (CBS Radio)

    Old Time Radio · 15 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  2. Stan Freberg Show 57 09 29 How To Repair A Leaky Faucet

    Old Time Radio · 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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