The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 253
- Genre
- comedy
THE PHIL HARRIS - ALICE FAYE SHOW Phil Harris was on the The Jack Benny Program since 1934, playing the jive-talking hipster bandleader of questionable repute. His band members were helpful in the sarcastic, fast-talking department, too. So when Phil Harris (in real life) married the glamorous and talented movie star Alice Faye, it seemed more like a match made in Hollywood than in Heaven. They knew each other from the old days of the Rudy Vallee Show , and were both radio veterans when they decided, in the Benny tradition, to work together professionally, using their own show-biz personas on Fitch Bandwagon . Hey, Ozzie and Harriett had done well with it! This show isn't like Ozzie and Harriett . Beside fame and glamour, Phil and Alice had two big things in their life, their lovely daughters. Jeanine Roose played Alice Jr. and Anne Whitfield was little Phyllis. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Harris_Faye_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Phil Harris 51-04-22 (177) Improvement is Necessary · Date unknown
- 2. Phil Harris 49-03-13 (094) Remley is Re-Hired · Date unknown
- 3. Phil Harris 50-03-12 (135) Julius to Marry Mr Scott's Daughter · Date unknown
Phil Harris 51-04-22 (177) Improvement is Necessary
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Phil Harris 49-03-13 (094) Remley is Re-Hired
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Phil Harris 50-03-12 (135) Julius to Marry Mr Scott's Daughter
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Phil Harris 51-11-11 (189) Red Cross Blood Drive
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Phil Harris 53-04-12 (245) The Little Mother's Helpers Club
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Phil Harris 54-04-30 (288) Special Red Cross Blood Drive Program
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Phil Harris 47-11-23 (044) Phil Sees the Doctor
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Phil Harris 49-10-09 (113) Three Grey Hairs
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while The Phil Harris - Alice Faye 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 Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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