Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy - 255 episodes from the great Old Time Radio comedy duo


(5 étoiles; 5 critiques)

This collection features 255 episodes of Edgar Bergen's radio programs, including The Chase and Sanborn Hour, The Chase and Sanborn Show, The Charlie McCarthy Show, and The Edgar Bergen Hour. Edgar Bergen and his sidekick Charlie McCarthy entertained radio audiences from 1937 to 1956.

This collection aims to preserve these excellent artistic expressions of our past for future generations.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapitres

Chase and Sanborn 100th Anniversary 52:34
101st Anniversary - Presenting Fred & Portland Allen 52:31
November 13, 1966 1:16:13
Guest - Ann Harding & Rodgers & Hart 59:40
Guest - Carole Lombard, Joseph Bentoelli 59:20
Guest - Mary Boland, Sonja Henie 59:49
Guest - Josephine Hutchinson, Jose Iturbi 59:42
Guest - Constance Bennett, Ray Middleton 59:20
Guest - Joan Blondell, Rodgers & Hart 59:25
Guest - May Robson, Grisha Goluboff 59:32
Guest - Sonja Henie, Ray Middleton 59:17
Guest - Hoagy Carmichael 59:38
Guest - Gladys George 59:41
Guest - Bruna Castagna 59:47
Guest - Nelson Eddy 59:33
Guest - Alice Brady, Allan Jones 59:39
Guest - Glenda Farrell 59:45
Final appearance by W.C. Fields as a regular cast member 59:25
Guest - Ida Lupino 59:56
Guest - Bette Davis 59:27
Guest - Clark Gable, The Stroud Twins 59:31
Guest - Mae West 1:00:14
Guest - Jack Benny 20:27
Guest - Margo 59:46
Guest - Margaret Sullavan 59:37
Guest - Alice Brady 59:33
Guest - Boris Karloff 59:17
Guest - Marlene Dietrich 59:27
Guest - Barbara Stanwyck 59:40
Guest - Gladys Swarthout 59:33
Guest - Rosalind Russell 59:32
Guest - Spencer Tracy 59:00
Guest - Fay Bainter 57:49
Guest - Ella Logan, Nelson Eddy 57:57
Guest - Ralph Bellamy, Nelson Eddy 59:21
Guest - Madeleine Carroll 59:38
Guest Jean Arthur 21:12
Guest - Maureen O'Sullivan 59:29
Guest - Ginger Rogers 59:31
Guest - Jackie Cooper, Alan Mowbray 59:32
Guest - Stuart Irwin, Tony Galento 55:36
Guest - Andrea Leeds 59:35
Guest - Ida Lupino, Vera Vague 59:49
Guest - Kay Frances, Luis Alberni 59:34
Guest - Mischa Auer, Josephine Hutchinson 59:42
Guest - Joan Blondell 59:24
Guest - Miriam Hopkins, Alan Mowbray 59:24
Guest - Wendy Barrie, Vera Vague 59:27
Guest - Helen Broderick, Fred MacMurray 59:38
Guest - Anita Louise, David Niven 59:44
Guest - Constance Bennett 59:42
Guest - Charles Laughton 59:32
Guest - Clark Gable 59:46
Guest - Cliff Nazarro, Jackie Cooper 59:35
Guest - Jean Arthur 59:30
Guest - John Garfield 59:42
Guest - Loretta Young 59:42
Guest - Maureen O'Hara, Arthur Treacher 59:49
Guest - Lansing Hatfield 59:44
Guest - Geraldine Fitzgerald 59:39
Guest - Wallace Beery and Vera Vague 29:51
Guest - Clark Gable and Vera Vague 29:30
Guest - Charles Laughton 30:00
Guest - W.C. Fields 28:42
Guest - Gene Tierney, Maxine Gray 28:07
Guest - Hedy Lamarr 29:02
Guest - Judy Garland 29:14
Guest - Lana Turner, Mickey Rooney 29:30
Guest - Ida Lupino, Abbott & Costello 29:52
Guest - Edward Everett Horton 29:13
Guest - Judy Garland 29:27
Guest - Walter Brennan 29:46
From Annapolis Naval Academy 30:00
From Quantico Marine Base 30:00
Guest - W.C. Fields 30:00
Guest - Jose Iturbi and Jeanette MacDonald 12:33
Guest - Teresa Wright 30:00
Guest - Bill Thompson, Charles Ruggles 30:00
Guest - Carmen Miranda 30:00
Guest - Sidney Greenstreet 30:00
Guest - Roy Rogers 30:00
Guest - Bill Thompson, Mary Boland 30:00
Guest - Martha Raye, Bill Thompson 29:27
Guest - Ronald Colman 29:32
Guest - Irene Dunn 29:11
Barbara Stanwyck Acts as Charlie's Agent 26:38
Guest - Victor Moore, Billy Gaxton 29:23
Guest - Claudette Colbert, Rags Ragland 29:24
Guest - Charles Boyer 29:02
Guest - Walter Pidgeon 27:53
Guest - Jean Arthur 21:10
Guest - Humphrey Bogart 27:28
Guest - W.C. Fields 21:42
Guest - Hedy Lamarr 28:46
Guest - Marjorie Main 22:39
Guest - Bert Lahr and Joan Blondell 30:00
Guest - Dorothy Lamour 31:00
Guest - Bob Burns 29:22
Guest - William Bendix 23:15
Guest - Bert Lahr, Fats Waller & Jane Powell 30:00
Guest - Bert Lahr, Lena Horne 30:00
Guest - Greer Garson 30:00
Guest - Basil Rathbone 19:10
Guest - Susan Hayward 30:00
Guest - W.C. Fields 31:33
Guest - Cecil B Demille 30:00
Guest - Charles Ruggles, Vera Felton 30:00
Guest - W.C. Fields, Jane Powell 29:58
Guest - Orson Welles, Jane Powell 30:00
Guest - Leo Carillo 30:33
Guest - Olivia de Havilland 30:28
Charlie Wants More Allowance 28:40
Charlie Opens a Frog Farm 27:54
Halloween Show, Guest - Orson Welles 29:12
Guest - John Robert Powers, Orson Welles 28:12
Guest - Frank Fay 28:32
Guest - Joan Merrill 29:14
Guest - Lauritz Melchior 29:17
Guest - Don Ameche 29:12
Charlie Answers Ad for Edgar 30:25
Guest - Rudy Vallee 29:33
Guest - Navy Choir 29:28
Guest - Charles Laughton 28:06
Guest - Carmen Miranda 29:13
Guest - Louis Bromfield 28:48
Guest - Frank Sinatra 28:54
Guest - Albert E Wiggem 28:43
Guest - Dorothy Lamour 28:58
Guest - Ginny Simms, Veronica Lake 30:00
Guest - Gene Tierney 29:23
Guest - Anne Baxter 29:15
Guest - Joan Blondell 29:23
Guest - Maria Montez 29:32
Guest - Lynn Bari 29:18
Guest - Rita Hayworth 29:06
Guest - Ida Lupino 29:18
Guest - Edward Everett Horton 30:18
Guest - Janet Blair 28:56
Guest - Joan Merrill 29:29
Guest - Keenan Wynn, Carmen Miranda 30:03
Guest - Keenan Wynn 29:05
Guest - Joan Blondell 29:19
Guest - Ann Baxter 29:53
Guest - Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa 29:54
Guest - Paulette Goddard 30:27
Guest - Hildegarde 29:52
Guest - Fred Allen 29:57
Guest - Elsa Maxwell 29:23
Guest - Gov Kerr of Oklahoma 26:43
Guest - Margaret O'Brien 29:30
Guest - Vera Vague 29:41
Guest - Walter Pidgeon 30:29
Guest - Susan Hayward 29:09
Guest - Chester Morris 28:46
Guest - Rita Hayworth 30:18
Guest - Signe Hasso 31:07
Guest - Jose Iturbi 30:25
Guest - Ray Milland 29:03
Guest - Tallulah Bankhead 24:36
Guest - Walter Slezak 30:00
Guest - W.C. Fields 29:21
Guest - Roy Rogers 26:22
Margaret O'Brien 29:36
Guest - Jack Benny 29:54
From Medina Temple, Charlie the Chiropractor 29:04
Guest - Fred Allen 29:55
Guest - Tallulah Bankhead 24:30
Guest - Edward Everett Horton 19:11
Guest - Charles Boyer 29:01
Guest - Edward Arnold 29:05
10th Anniversary Show 29:34
Guest - Roy Rogers 29:09
Guest - Jane Wyman 29:10
Guest - Nelson Eddy 28:48
Guest - Nelson Eddy, Billie Burke 28:43
Guest - Nelson Eddy, Elsa Maxwell 28:43
Guest - Nelson Eddy, Chester Morris 29:02
Guest - Monty Woolley 28:46
Margo 29:44
Guest - Edward Everett Horton 29:48
Guest - Michael Romanoff 29:26
Guest - Walt Disney 30:00
Guest - Betty Hutton 29:33
Guest - Don Ameche 29:08
Guest - Linda Darnell 29:38
Guest - Jane Wyman 28:57
Guest - Richard Widmark 28:51
Guest - Fred Allen 29:58
Guest - Maurice Evans 28:40
Guest - Lana Turner 29:27
Guest - Carmen Miranda 29:12
Guest - Edward Everett Horton 28:00
Guest - Roy Rogers 29:03
Guest - Gary Cooper 29:27
Guest - Lucille Ball 29:13
Guest - Hoagy Carmichael 25:06
Guest - Rudy Vallee 28:38
Guest - Dr. Max Mason 30:00
Guest - Dr. Max Mason, Marie Montaine 29:33
Charlie Breaks a Window 29:39
Guest - Don Ameche 29:39
Christmas Show with Mario Lanza 27:47
Last Show for Chase & Sanborn 29:16
Guest - Dorothy Shay 29:16
Guest - Dick Powell 30:25
Guest - June Allyson 29:00
Guest - William Boyd 27:25
Guest - Alec Templeton 28:46
Guest - Robert Cummings 29:46
Guest - June Allyson 29:46
Guest - Frankie Laine 30:00
Guest - William Warfield 29:38
Guest - The Mills Brothers 29:09
Guest - Rosemary Clooney 29:46
Guest - Marilyn Monroe 30:13
Guest - Rosemary Clooney from Camp Pendleton 27:15
Guest - Robert Cummings 29:44
Guest - Candice Bergen 22:52
Guest - Gordon MacRae 29:40
Guest - Fred MacMurray 29:40
Guest - June Allyson and Dick Powell 29:43
Guest - Tennessee Ernie 29:36
Guest - Liberace 29:38
Guest - Dorothy Kirsten 29:51
Guest - Terry Moore 29:56
Guest - June Allyson, Dick Powell 29:52
Guest - Jane Wyman 29:51
Guest - Peggy Lee 29:53
Bergen and McCarthy 29:50
Guest - David Niven 29:43
Bergen and McCarthy 29:44
Guest - Ann Blythe 29:13
Guest - Nelson Eddy 24:41
Guest - Hopalong Cassidy 27:22
Guest - Smog Expert Art Atkinson 55:27
Guest - Professor Hal Sparks Teaches Charlie About Termites 55:04
Charlie Dreams That He Visits Hell 54:19
Charlie Wants to Be a Gossip Columnist 53:57
Guest - Jack Benny 58:44
Guest - Candy Bergen 55:10
Christmas Show 55:37
Guest - Lew Ayers 57:27
Guest - Tad Sanders 58:10
Guest - Rudy Wissler, Cecil Zon 57:53
Guest - Stan Erwin 57:42
Guest - Richard Armour 57:21
Woman who 'Farms the Sea' 53:34
McCarthy's Cavalcade of Flops 58:42
Mortimer's Ups and Downs 58:47
Interplanetary Western 55:34
Guest - Ben Him 55:09
Lost in the Woods 54:59
Edgar Bergen Remembers Radio Part 1 28:32
Edgar Bergen Remembers Radio Part 2 23:00
The Skunk Trap 19:52

Critiques

Note Regarding Identification of Episodes


(5 étoiles)

The following episodes are incorrectly-labeled copies of other episodes and are entirely unnecessary: 299 (=306), 301 (=380), and 371 (=375). Either 277 or 350 is incorrect. Same for 396 and 421. 341 and 342 are different recordings of the same material. There may be other such pairs of files. I am almost positive that episode 364 contains some material from episode 361, and episodes 358 and 365 may share some broadcast material that has been substituted for what I guess is lost content in at least one in each pair. Again, there may be other instances of this in other episodes. Most or all substitute some piece of sung material for another. The material of some episodes simply gets cut off even though the recording itself goes on with nothing but silence. These seem to be original to the recordings, or at least to the only extant versions of the recordings. (This is by no means a discouragement from listening to these episodes!)

#36 1938-10-30 The episode opposite War of the Worlds


#36 1938-10-30 *THIS* is the episode that some people tuned out during one of Nelson Eddie's songs. When they spun the radio dial over to CBS, the Mercury Theater's adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' was already in progress. 0:00 Some comedy banter with McCarthy. 2:16 Nelson Eddie sings '"The Song of the Vagabonds'. 4:42 Nelson Eddie sings 'The Canadian Logging Song' 6:22 Edgar Bergen attempts to tell a ghost story. 15:25 Dorothy Lamar sings 'Two Sleepy People'. Meanwhile, over at CBS, the Martian invasion was just beginning. ****************** I would have liked to 'review' the episodes individually but wasn't an option.

1952 15th Anniversary Show


(5 étoiles)

Ep. 214 in this list- One of the all time best! Rosemary Clooney croons her superb singing while Charlie and Ray set off to interview Edgar's childhood friends in Decatur IL with hilarious results. Bea Benedrette plays an old girlfriend and Jack Kirkwood brings the house down. "Burned down a lot of houses but made a lot of dough!" One of Mortimer's best as well. Not to be missed! -From Laurence Budd, OTR radio host