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Adventures of Topper

Networks
NBC (as its archives name them)
Heard
1945
Episodes
5

(03 Episodes) "The Adventures of Topper" Broadcast on the NBC network (WEAF, New York), "The Adventures of Topper" is a wonderful radio situation comedy regarding an old codger who is (pleasently) haunted by the ghost of a beautiful, rich, philandering, young woman (Marion Kirby) & her equally ghostly male companion/husband George.

More about it

In the 1945-07-19 episode, Topper clearly describes storyline plot to his sweet wife, Malveena - and she immediately calls a shrink! Roland Young assumed the role of Cosmo Topper, Hope Emerson that of Marion Kirby, and Tony Barrett carried the role of her husband, George Kirby.

Sponsored by Post Toasties and Maxwell House Coffee, "The Adventures of Topper" was created by Thorne Smith, written by Stanley Wolf, and produced & directed by Kirby Hawkes. Richard Kollmar was program announcer.

At a much later date, this comedic radio program successfully graduated to television. A hilarious program which had Topper's housekeeper continuously raising her arms in "fear" of the 'ghostly' Kirbys!

** There are many "The Adventures of Topper" episodes available online, but I have discovered they are primarily alternate titles of the 3 Eps within this file. I will continue my ongoing OTR "web-hunt," for further episodes of this great program! OTR * def gp ddh

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. 00.00.00 Malveena Hires A Psychiatrist

    · 24 min

  2. Malveena Hires a Psychiatrist (aka 1945-07-12 & 45-07-05 Malveena Hires A Psych 45-07-12 Telephone Repairman aka Topper Sues 2 Psychs)

    · 24 min

  3. Malvena Mother Visits

    · 29 min

  4. Malveena's Mother Visits (aka Pretends To Be Dead - Measles)

    · 29 min

  5. Rajah (aka Spiritualist aka 1945)

    · 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. Adventures of Topper 03 Eps

    Old Time Radio · 3 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  2. The Adventures Of Topper

    Old Time Radio · 2 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.

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

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