Duffy's Tavern - "Archie Has Three Days To Live" (02-09-49)

Archie Has Three Days To Live (Aired February 9, 1949)

Duffy's Tavern, an American radio situation comedy (CBS, 1941-1942; NBC-Blue Network, 1942-1944; NBC, 1944-1952), often featured top-name stage and film guest stars but always hooked those around the misadventures, get-rich-quick-scheming, and romantic missteps of the title establishment's malaprop-prone, metaphor-mixing manager, Archie, played by the writer/actor who co-created the show, Ed Gardner. In the show's familiar opening, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," either solo on an old-sounding piano or by a larger orchestra, was interrupted by the ring of a telephone and Gardner's New Yorkese accent as he answered, "Duffy's Tavern, where the elite meet to eat. Archie the manager speakin'. Duffy ain't here — oh, hello, Duffy.

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February 9, 1949. NBC network origination, Nostalgia Broadcasting Corporation syndication "Archie Has Three Days To Live". Commercials added locally. Archie's doctor has told him that he only has three days to live...or did he? Archie keeps the true diagnosis from the gang down at the tavern. Ed Gardner, Eddie Green, Charlie Cantor, Florence Halop (as "Miss Duffy"), John Morris (producer, director), Matty Malneck and His Orchestra. 29:00.  Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.