The Christmas Present (December 26, 1948)
Phil Harris was on the Jack Benny Show since 1934, playing the jive-talking hipster bandleader of questionable repute. His band members were hep 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 personnas. 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. Both took after Phil in the wisecrack department. The big headache in their lives - Phil's Band! It was a congregation with enough wiseguys to make Abbott and Costello sit up and start take notes.
THIS EPISODE:
December 26, 1948. NBC network. Sponsored by: Rexall. How come everyone has gotten a Christmas Present from Rexall...except Phil. When the present finaly arrives...it's in pieces! What was it? Phil sings, "Keep in The Middle Of The Road." Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Ray Singer (writer), Dick Chevillat (writer), Robert North, Elliott Lewis, Walter Scharf and His Orchestra, Gale Gordon, Bill Forman (announcer), Jeanine Roos, Lois Corbett, Anne Whitfield, Paul Phillips (producer, director). 29:31.
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