Archive for the ‘Command Performance’ category

Command Performance’s end of the war special continues. Original Air Date: August 14, 1945 Click here to add to Itunes.

Bing Crosby hosts an all-star extravaganza to celebrate the end of the war. Original Air Date: August 14, 1945 Click here to add to Itunes.

An all-star cast including Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, and Bob Hope perform a comic operate to at last have Dick Tracy marry Tess Truehart. Original Air Date: February 15, 1945 Click here to add to Itunes.

An All Western Program featuring the Andrews Sisters, Roy Rogers, and more. Hosted by Bob Hope. From Command Performance. Original Air Date: June 24, 1944 Click here to add to Itunes.

Bob Hope hosts with Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra Original Air Date: June 3, 1944 Click here to add to Itunes.

Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, and Ginny Simms sing and then put on an absurd melodrama. Original Air Date:  March 11, 1944 Click here to add to Itunes.

Ann Sheridan hosts Command Performance with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra and Gracie Allen. Original Air Date: April 24, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.

Bing Crosby hosts an all-star Command Performance with Hedy Lamarr, Kay Kaiser, Abbott and Costello and more. Original Air Date: August 30, 1942 Click here to add to Itunes.

Marlene Dietrich and Al Jolson appear before the National Association of Broadcasters. Original Air Date: May 13, 1942 Click here to add to Itunes.

Kate Smith hosts half an hour of music with John Charles Thomas and Cass Daley. Original Air Date: May 1, 1943

Bob Hope hosts an all-star cast of performers for America’s Armed Forces including Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, the City Slicker, and Ethel Waters. Simulcast to America’s civilians. Original Air Date: December 24, 1942

Eddie Cantor hosts the first episode of Command Performance including the Joe Louis-Buddy Baer fight. Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye, and Bert Gordon appear. Original Air Date:  March 1, 1942

The Command Performance Thanksgiving Program. Original Air Date: November 23, 1944