The Author Meets the Critics
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 17 October 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's The Author Meets the Critics collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 253
- Genre
- comedy
THE PHIL HARRIS - ALICE FAYE SHOW Phil Harris was on the The Jack Benny Program since 1934, playing the jive-talking hipster bandleader of questionable repute. His band members were helpful in the sarcastic, fast-talking department, too. So when Phil Harris (in real life) married the glamorous and talented movie star Alice Faye, it seemed more like a match made in Hollywood than in Heaven. They knew each other from the old days of the Rudy Vallee Show , and were both radio veterans when they decided, in the Benny tradition, to work together professionally, using their own show-biz personas on Fitch Bandwagon . Hey, Ozzie and Harriett had done well with it! This show isn't like Ozzie and Harriett . Beside fame and glamour, Phil and Alice had two big things in their life, their lovely daughters. Jeanine Roose played Alice Jr. and Anne Whitfield was little Phyllis. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Harris_Faye_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1953 · 31952 · 11951 · 21950 · 21949 · 21948 · 11946 · 1
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Harris_Faye_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 14 years on the air, with 7 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. Phil Harris 46-07-10 (000) Audition Show · 10 Jul 1946
- 2. Phil Harris 48-10-17 (073) Phyllis' Boyfriend · 17 Oct 1948
- 3. Phil Harris 49-03-06 (093) The Kangaroo · 6 Mar 1949
- 01
Phil Harris 46-07-10 (000) Audition Show
10 Jul 1946 · 32 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Phil Harris 48-10-17 (073) Phyllis' Boyfriend
17 Oct 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Phil Harris 49-03-06 (093) The Kangaroo
6 Mar 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Phil Harris 49-10-09 (113) Three Grey Hairs
9 Oct 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Phil Harris 50-02-26 (133) Wabash Avenue
26 Feb 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Phil Harris 50-11-05 (153) Getting Out The Vote
5 Nov 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Phil Harris 51-03-25 (173) Frankie and Easter Dinner
25 Mar 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Phil Harris 51-12-09 (193) Mr Scott's Clock
9 Dec 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
17 Oct 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 17 Oct 1948.
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
Edgar Bergen 1948-10-17 (490) Guest - Don Ameche
17 Oct 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “edgar-bergen-1937-12-12-32-guest-mae-west”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Box 13
Broadcast on Mutual. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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