The Milton Berle Show - "A Salute To Baseball" (04-20-49)

A Salute To Baseball (Aired April 20, 1949)

INTRO: Bob Plays The Righteous Brothers "Unchained Melody" (1965)

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:

April 20, 1949. ABC network. Sponsored by: Texaco. "A Salute To Baseball." Milton calls a baseball game as an Englishman, a Frenchman and a Chinaman. Milton takes his son to Ebbets Field. The program is also known as, "The Milton Berle Show." Milton Berle, Frank Gallop, Pert Kelton, Jack Albertson, Arnold Stang, Al Kelly, Charles Irving, Jacqueline Susann, John Gibson, Kay Armen, Allen Roth and His Orchestra, Alan Reed. 27:17. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.