DON McNEILL'S BREAKFAST CLUB
(approx. 60 min.)
Spanning the 35 years between 1933 and 1968, DON McNEILL'S BREAKFAST CLUB was one of America's longest-running radio shows.
Broadcast out of Chicago, the show offered a little of everything -- music, interviews, comedy, and audience participation.
We have a rare Kinescope of their TV show that was filmed simultaneously with the airing of the radio production. The clips that we give you ran during the year from February 22, 1954 to February 25, 1955.
QUEEN FOR A DAY & YOU ASKED FOR IT
(approx 60 min)
QUEEN FOR A DAY - Television plumbed the depths of exploitation in this classic series, in which host Jack Bailey carries us through tales of woe delivered by four women in dire need of help in their lives, and come away with household appliances, cars, trips, and elegant clothing. Includes plugs and commercials for Chrysler Imperial, Hartz Mountain Cat Yummies, Ex-Lax, Johnson & Johnson Sta-Puf Laundry Rinse, Borden Star Lac, Bordens' Milk (cartoon featuring Elsie the Cow and her family), the Hamilton Beach Food Converter, Adler Sewing Machines, Arrestin Cough Medicine, Revere Cameras and Slide Projectors, the Hoover Floor Polisher, and a generic coffee commercial.
YOU ASKED FOR IT - Art Baker hosts this installment of the fondly remembered Dumont series, in which audience letters requesting unusual events and stunts were honored each week before the camera. In this program, a movie stuntman attempts something never done before, a leap over a house in a car, which ends in near-disaster as he hits the ramp too fast and overshoots his mark; caricaturist Jack Lane demonstrates how the letters in peoples' names (Harry Truman etc.) can be used in drawings of their faces; the Ravenswood Jumping Jacks, a team of young gymnasts from Ravenswood, California, demonstrates their abilities on the trampoline; a judo expert and a swordsman go hand-to-steel; a team of survival experts recount their 14-day trek into the wilderness on film; and a man wrestles a very large chimpanzee. Skippy was the sponsor for You Asked For It, and is plugged several times during the show.
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(approx 60 min)