Duffy's Tavern - "A Baby Is Left At The Tavern" (12-07-51)

A Baby Is Left At The Tavern (Aired December 7, 1951)

INTRO: Bob Remembers Peaches & Herb "Re-United" (1978)

Radio's Duffy's Tavern didn't translate well to film or television. Burrows and Matt Brooks collaborated on the screenplay for the 1945 film, Ed Gardner's Duffy's Tavern, in which Archie (with regulars Eddie and Finnegan) was surrounded by a throng of Paramount Pictures stars playing themselves, including Robert Benchley, William Bendix, Eddie Bracken, Bing Crosby, Cass Daley, Brian Donlevy, Paulette Goddard, Betty Hutton, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and Dorothy Lamour. The film's plot involves a war-displaced record manufacturer whose staff — those not sent off to war — drown their sorrows at Duffy's on credit, while the company owner tries to find ways around the price controls and war attrition that threaten to put him out of business. The movie was a box-office disappointment.

 

THIS EPISODE:

December 7, 1951. "A Baby Is Left At The Tavern" - NBC network origination, Nostalgia Broadcasting Corporation syndication. Commercials added locally. Someone has left a baby at the doorstep of Duffy's Tavern! Ed Gardner, Ed Pinchon, Charlie Cantor, Hazel Shermet. 35:38. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.