"A Salute To Football" (Aired November 4, 1947)
The Milton Berle Show brought Berle together with Arnold Stang, later a familiar face as Berle's TV sidekick. Others in the cast were Pert Kelton, Mary Schipp, Jack Albertson, Arthur Q. Bryan, Ed Begley, vocalist Dick Forney and announcer Frank Gallop. The Ray Bloch Orchestra provided the music for the series. Sponsored by Philip Morris, it aired on NBC from March 11, 1947, until April 13, 1948. His last radio series was The Texaco Star Theater, which began September 22, 1948 on ABC and continued until June 15, 1949, with Berle heading the cast of Stang, Kelton and Gallop, along with Charles Irving, Kay Armen and double-talk specialist Al Kelly. It employed top comedy writers (Nat Hiken, brothers Danny and Neil Simon, Aaron Ruben), and Berle later recalled this series as "the best radio show I ever did... a hell of a funny variety show." It served as a springboard for Berle's rise as television's first major star.
THIS EPISODE:
November 04, 1947. NBC network. Philip Morris. "A Salute To Football". Milton goes to see the "Fighting Irish." See cat. #64207 for a similar "salute" but a different broadcast. Frank Gallop (announcer), Milton Berle, Ray Bloch and His Orchestra, Pert Kelton, Jack Albertson, Mary Shipp, Billy Sands, John Gibson, Al Kelly, Dick Farney (vocals). 26:27. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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