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Celebrate Christmas along with radio's greatest performers, characters and programs. These timeless holiday classics include moving and mirthful comedies, wholesome dramas, and adventurous missions of mercy. May these 21 digitally restored and remastered tales of nostalgia and nativity bring you cheer and become a part of your own Christmas traditions.

Deck the halls and prop up the antenna - because Christmas is on the air! Here come all of your radio favorites in a holly-wreathed collection of priceless holiday moments. These classic episodes are accented with humor, tinged with adventure, and well-seasoned with all the good family feelings that fill our hearts during this season of the year! From Fibber McGee & Molly to Suspense, from Red Skelton to Marshal Matt Dillon, from Mr. Benny to St. Nick himself, tune in to 10 full hours of seasonal entertainment!

This radio dramatization of the classic movie, based on a Damon Runyon story, originally aired on April 12, 1942.

Celebrate Christmas along with radio's greatest performers, characters and programs. These timeless holiday classics include moving and mirthful comedies, wholesome dramas, and adventurous missions of mercy. Laugh along with comedians like Jack Benny and Red Skelton (in a rare previously uncirculated performance), and with funny families on Fibber McGee & Molly, The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show, Burns & Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, and The Life of Riley.

A classic radio broadcast from the World War II era, NBC War Bond Parade rallied Americans with a wide variety of entertainment and inspirational messages. This episode features everything from Raymond Massey reciting John of Gaunt's soliloquy from Shakespeare's Richard II to a comedic sketch starring Red Skelton; it also included an operatic performance from Faust and big-band music from Kay Kyser. Originally broadcast on February 7, 1944.

He's a real character! In fact, Red Skelton's a whole lot of real characters! He's Clem Kadiddlehopper and Sheriff Deadeye...he's Willie Lump-Lump and Cauliflower McPugg...and, of course, he's Junior The Mean Widdle Kid! Skelton's material is broad, his creations are wild, and his catch-phrases go straight for the breadbasket. Even his rehearsals - some of which are included in this collection - are stunningly silly. Join Red, Rod O'Connor, Pat McGeehan, Lurene Tuttle, Dick Ryan, and Martha Wentworth for eight hours of fast and furious fun!

This episode of Bob Hope's classic NBC radio show, broadcast from the University of Southern California, originally aired on November 27, 1945.

Red (as both Dead-Eye and Willie Lump-Lump) explores the topic of "lazy people". Then, Junior the "mean widdle kid" goes apartment hunting.

Clem Kadiddlehopper, Sherriff Deadeye, and Junior the Mean Widdle Kid return for another earful of hilarity with Red Skelton and company in 16 laugh-packed half hours - including previously uncirculated episodes and three rare rehearsal recordings that give you a peek at the show before the show!

Bing Crosby hosts The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers visits with Bergen & McCarthy, and Red Skelton heads to Dead Eye's dude ranch. Come kick up your heels with Bob Hope, "Buck Benny," Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, and more!

Red's opening monologue is about Spring cleaning. People who get lost: "Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid", gets lost in a department store. Deadeye and his gang are lost in the Mojave desert after robbing the Bank Of Azusa. Red Skelton, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, Wonderful Smith, Truman Bradley.

Red Skelton's impressive gallery of comic characterizations didn't need to be seen to be hilarious! Through sound alone, he brought to life a "fellow from the country", an inept outlaw, a down-for-the-count boxer, a shady politician, a Brooklynese braggart... and a holy terror known as "Junior, the Mean Widdle Kid".

Willie Lump-Lump and Clem Kaiddlehopper appear. "Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid" prays for help against the Communists. Red Skelton, Pat McGeehan, Rod O'Connor, Lurene Tuttle.

In the Skelton Scrapbook of Satire, Chapter 328, Willie Lump-Lump explains why peanuts upset him. Anita Ellis, Verna Felton, Lurene Tuttle, and Pat McGeehan co-star.

He dood it! Who dood it? Red Skelton, that's who! Join Red and his alter egos Clem Kaddidllehopper, Sherrif Deadeye, Willie Lump-Lump, and, of course, Junior the "Mean Widdle Kid" in this hilarious collection presenting some of Skelton's best work from 1948! Lurene Tuttle, Verna Felton, Pat McGeehan, Rod O'Connor, and Anita Ellis are heard in these rare rehearsal recordings and original radio broadcasts, many of which have never before been available.

Red and Rod drive down to the studio and are forced to sneak in. Klem Kadiddlehopper and Deadeye are also heard. "Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid" is in the studio audience. Red Skelton, Rod O'Connor.

Red's opening monologue is about his attempt to get 1942 license plates. Wonderful Smith describes his new nightclub. How different people celebrated New Year's Eve, featuring Clem Kadiddlehopper. "Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid", is at a New Year's Eve party. Red Skelton, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, Wonderful Smith, Truman Bradley (announcer).

In the Skelton Scrapbook of Satire, Chapter 330, Clem Kadiddlehopper takes his mother out for a drive (watch out for those parked cars). Chapter 331 is entitled "Bad Dreams", and features Junior "the mean widdle kid".

A new season on radio sparks remembrances of the summer and a look ahead to new things. Clem Kadiddlehopper talks to a new father, and Junior makes a new entry in his diary.

Red is looking for a postage stamp. Also heard are Cauliflower McPugg, "Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid", and Willie Lump-Lump. Red Skelton, Lurene Tuttle, Rod O'Connor, Pat McGeehan.