The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1936–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 346
- Genre
- comedy
The Baby Snooks Show (sometimes called Baby Snooks and Daddy) began on CBS September 17, 1944, airing on Sunday evenings at 6:30pm as Post Toasties Time (for sponsor General Foods). The title soon changed to The Baby Snooks Show CAST: Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks. Henley Stafford as Lancelot "Daddy" Higgins, Baby Snooks father. Lalive Brownell as "Mommy" Higgins (later played by Lois Corbet and Arlene Harris).Leone Ledoux as Snook’s little brother Roberspierre. Baby Snooks came about through bad dentistry. Fanny had had teeth problems for years, and before one particular radio rehearsal her dentist let her come away without her dentures. Fanny was unable to speak properly. Frantic, the producer suddenly remembered a cute baby act Fanny would do at parties and in front of friends. It was the only thing she could do in her current condition. "What do you call her?" the producer cried. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTR_Baby-Snooks”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
6 dated broadcasts across 16 years on the air, with 10 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1936, in original transmission order.
- 1. BSnks 1936-01-26 Ziegfeld Follies of the Air · 26 Jan 1936
- 2. BSs 1939-11-23 #027 Court Case (aka go to court .....) · 23 Nov 1939
- 3. BSnks 1940-07-18 Library Visit · 18 Jul 1940
BSnks 1936-01-26 Ziegfeld Follies of the Air
26 Jan 1936 · 1h 1m
Originally broadcast on CBS, 26 January 1936. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
BSs 1939-11-23 #027 Court Case (aka go to court .....)
23 Nov 1939 · 6 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 23 November 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
BSnks 1940-07-18 Library Visit
18 Jul 1940 · 7 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 July 1940. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
BSs 1941-05-22 #087 Insomnia
22 May 1941 · 9 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 22 May 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
BSs 1942-06-04 #119 10th Wedding Anniversary
4 Jun 1942 · 8 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 June 1942. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
BSnks 1951-03-20 Easter Outfit (aka 1951-20-51 #04 Easter Bonnet-Daddy Needs A Loan-Loan for Easter Outfit)
20 Mar 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 March 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Snooks 40-03-28 Baby-Brother-Wants-Attention
Date unknown · 8 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Baby Snooks 115
Date unknown · 8 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1936–1951
Other series the network carried while The Baby Snooks 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 Baby Snooks Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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