Peter & The Landlord (Aired March 26, 1947)
Morgan had to read an Adler commercial heralding the new fall line of colors; Morgan thought the colors were dreadful, and said he wouldn't wear them to a dogfight, but perhaps the listeners would like them. Old Man Adler demanded a retraction on the air. Morgan obliged: "I would wear them to a dogfight." Morgan later recalled with bemusement, "It made him happy." Later, he moved to ABC (formerly the NBC Blue Network) in a half-hour weekly format that allowed Morgan more room to develop and expand his topical, often ad-libbed satires, hitting popular magazines, soap operas, schools, the BBC, baseball, summer resorts, government snooping, and landlords. His usual signoff was, "Morgan'll be here on the same corner in front of the cigar store next week." But he continued to target sponsors whose advertising copy rankled him, and those barbs didn't always sit well with his new sponsors, either. When Eversharp sponsored his show to promote both Eversharp pens and Schick shaving razors and blades, Morgan threw this in during a show satirizing American schools: "They're educational. Try one. That'll teach you."
THIS EPISODE:
March 26, 1947. ABC network, WENR, Chicago aircheck. Sponsored by: Eversharp-chick. A look at the housing shortage, "The Question Man," "Peter and The Landlord." The system cue has been deleted. Arnold Stang, Bernard Green and His Orchestra, Charles Irving (announcer), Henry Morgan, The Golden Gate Quartet, Florence Halop, Madeline Lee. 28:11. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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