One Step Ahead Of The Law (Aired June 16, 1944)
Amos 'n' Andy was officially transferred by NBC from the Blue Network to the Red Network in 1935, although the vast majority of stations carrying the show remained the same. Several months later, Gosden and Correll moved production of the show from NBC's Merchandise Mart studios in Chicago to Hollywood. After a long and successful run with Pepsodent, the program changed sponsors in 1938 to Campbell's Soup; because of Campbell's closer relationship with CBS, the series switched to that network on April 3, 1939. In 1943, after 4,091 episodes, the radio program went from a 15-minute CBS weekday dramatic serial to an NBC half-hour weekly comedy. While the five-a-week show often had a quiet, easygoing feeling, the new version was a full-fledged sitcom in the Hollywood sense, with a regular studio audience (for the first time in the show's history) and an orchestra. More outside actors, including many African American comedy professionals, were brought in to fill out the cast. Many of the half-hour programs were written by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, later the writing team behind Leave It To Beaver and The Munsters. In the new version, Amos became a peripheral character to the more dominant Andy and Kingfish duo, although Amos was still featured in the traditional Christmas show where he explains the Lord's Prayer to his daughter.
THIS EPISODE:
June 16, 1944. "One Step Ahead Of The Law" - NBC network. Commercials deleted. The last show of the season. Andy had better come up with $25 to pay his debts...or else! Lightning manages to turn a parking lot into a used car lot! Chester Morris appears after the story. He's to star as Boston Blackie, the summer replacement series. A brief skit from the next week's show is presented. Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Harlow Wilcox (announcer), Ken Christy, Elinor Harriot, Chester Morris. 27:34.
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