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My Favorite Husband Old Time Radio Program
My Favorite Husband
30 minutes comedy shows
My Favorite Husband was Lucille Ball’s first
regular radio show. It debuted in July 1948 and ran until 1951.
Initially written as a situation comedy about an affluent banker
and his wife, it was soon rewritten to be more accessible to the
burgeoning middle class, reflecting post-war suburban life.
Lucille Ball was cast as Liz Cooper, wife of George Cooper, played
by Richard Denning. My Favorite Husband was the precursor
to the I Love Lucy show, and in it Ball honed the scatterbrained
housewife character that would become her trademark. As on her later
television show, Ball’s character was constantly getting into jams
of her own devising, with the willing assistance of friend Iris
Atterbury, wife of George’s boss, much to the chagrin of long-suffering
husband George. The roles of George’s boss Rudolph Atterbury and
Iris Atterbury, models for Fred and Ethel Mertz, were played by
the redoubtable Gale Gordon (Mayor LaTrivia on Fibber McGee and
Molly, and Principal Osgood Conklin on Our Miss Brooks)
and Bea Benaderet ( Fibber McGee and Molly, The Jack Benny
Show, Campbell Playhouse), respectively. Gordon and Benaderet
were given first consideration for the roles of the Mertzes, but
contract conflicts forced them to turn down the television roles.
The initial sponsor for the show was Jell-O, and the
gelatin dessert became an integral part of the show, including the
usual greeting of "Jell-O Everybody" from Ball at the
beginning of the show.
My Favorite Husband ended its run in 1951,
concurrent with the debut of I Love Lucy.
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All of our Old Time Radio Programs are in MP3 format. You
can play them on your computer, you can transfer them to MP3
players (like the IPod), but, by and large, you cannot play
them on stereos, walkmen, or car radios.
The sound quality of Old Time Radio Programs can vary greatly.
Some episodes are excellent, others you have to turn up the
volume a little and ignore the static. All of the episodes can
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