Bob Hope The Ghost Breakers 1951

[@pattim9617]

I imagine my mother and father listening to this on the radio the year I was born. ❤️ :-)

[@robertsweeney7472]

Love Bob and Bing👍

[@fromthesidelines]

This is when the show was an hour-long offering, on NBC's Thursday night schedule at 10pm(et).

[@beckiewilson6764]

An absolute gem

[@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE]

Absolutely! Thanks!

[@theironclads]

Cigarettes for Father's Day. How sweet.

[@tamarikimani5701]

8 years i was 32,still smoking and trying hard to stop😔😔🙏❤

[@fromthesidelines]

However, this was actually a half-hour edition that evening, as President Truman delivered a major address {on inflation} on all four radio networks, immediately following this broadcast at 10:30pm(et). So what the producers did, was to take the ORIGINAL transcription of this episode- which was staged for the series' initial season on April 3, 1949- and had it slightly edited to allow commercials [the original was "sustaining"] and removed several of Bob's "topical" jokes heard in the original..

[@fromthesidelines]

Omitted in the credits were the names of the supporting players who appeared with Hope when this was initially heard on April 3, 1949- Shirley Mitchell as "Mary", Betty Moran as "Miss Coles", Ken Christy as "Raspy Kelly", Donald Morrison as "Senor Perada", Sheldon Leonard as "Frenchy Duval", Dan Riss as "Steward", Jack Edwards as "Jeff Montgomery", and June Foray as "The Old Woman". Henry Russell's original score was replaced by "stock cues", and Frank Barton's original narration was omitted.

[@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE]

Ha!

[@hepgramm5464]

love baby snooks

[@terrortorn]

"Who ya gonna call"?

[@EliasWolf77]

"After all what's a ghost anyway? Just a klu klux that lost it's clan" lmfao comedians laughing at and making fun of idiotic racists even back then