Top Ten: Mark’s Favorite Radio Variety Shows

1.  Arthur Godfrey Time (CBS, April 30, 1945-April 30, 1972)

2.  The Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show (The Chase and Sanborn Hour, The Charlie McCarthy Show, The Edgar Bergen Show, The New Edgar Bergen Hour) (NBC, May 9, 1937-December 26, 1948; CBS, October 2, 1949-July 1, 1956)

3.  Command Performance (Armed Radio Service, March 1, 1942-December 20, 1949)

4.  The Bing Crosby Show (Fifteen Minutes with Bing Crosby, The Cremo Singer, The Music That Satisfies, The Woodbury Radio Program, The Kraft Music Hall, Philco Radio Time, The Bing Crosby Chesterfield Show, The General Electric Show) (CBS, September 2, 1931-February 27, 1932; March 8-July 20, 1932; CBS, January 4-April 15, 1933; CBS, October 16, 1933-June 11, 1935; NBC, January 2, 1936-May 9, 1946; ABC, October 16, 1946-June 1, 1949; CBS, September 21, 1949-June 25, 1952; CBS, October 9, 1952-May 30, 1954; CBS, November 22, 1954-December 28, 1956)

5.  The Frank Sinatra Show (Songs by Sinatra, Light-Up Time, Meet Frank Sinatra) CBS, October 27, 1942-June 4, 1947; NBC, September 5, 1949-June 2, 1950-July 22, 1951; NBC, November 10,1953-July 15, 1955)

6.  The Kraft Music Hall (NBC, June 26, 1933-September 22, 1949)

7.  Your Hit Parade (NBC, April 20, 1935-December 1, 1937; CBS, May 2, 1936-April 19, 1947; NBC. April 26,1947-January 16,1953)

8.  The Judy Canova Show (CBS, July 6, 1943-June 27, 1944; NBC, January 13, 1945-May 28, 1953)

9.  The Fred Allen Show (The Linit Bath Club Revue, The Salad Bowl Revue, The Sal Hepatica Revue, Hour of Smiles, Town Hall Tonight, The Texaco Star Theater) CBS, October 23, 1932-April 16, 1933; NBC, August 4-December 1, 1933; NBC, January 3, 1934-, June 26, 1940; CBS, October 2, 1940-June 25, 1944; NBC, October 7, 1945-December 28, 1947; NBC, January 4, 1948-June 26, 1949)

10.  The Breakfast Club (Blue Network/ABC, June 23, 1933-December 27, 1968)