Theater of the Mind
Al Goodman and His Orchestra
Cast
151 episodes in 4 shows · 1938–1949
Al Goodman was a Broadway conductor and musical director who led more than 150 opening-night performances. He also kept busy directing music for network radio, with credits including The Fred Allen Show from 1945 to 1949, Your Hit Parade from 1935 to 1938, The Bob Hope Show, Texaco Star Theater and Al Goodman's Musical Album. He recorded as a conductor and arranger for RCA Victor and Columbia.
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The Fred Allen Show147 · Cast
1940
- The Sea Buzzard
- Death Takes a Boniface
- The Story of Bramson Snide
- Mountain Justice (1940)
- The Eagle Is Back
- The Great Department Store Dilemma
- Death Comes to the Mystery Story Writer
- The Dentist's Plight
- Santa Claus Sits Down
- Murder at the Faculty Club
1941
- The Quiz Nippers
- All Is Not Gold That Glitters
- The Specialist's Quandary
- They Almost Junked the Junket
- A Stay-at-Home Cruise to Havana
- Mountain Justice (1941)
- Truth or Subsequences
- Milk
- Western Union
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Philander Blank: My Story
- Nicotine Alley
- The Wedlock Society
- One Long Pan Takes a Chance
- Shortcut to a Nervous Breakdown
- Sleep
- The Undoing of Abner Snide
- The Baritone's Plight
- Jack Benny's Tenth Anniversary
- Rhyme Doesn't Pay
- Who Killed Carmen Feitlebaum?
- The Great Studio Economy Wave
- One Long Pan on the Ghost-to-Ghost Network
- The Saga of the Great American Drugstore
- No Blood and No Sand
- The Hour of Good Intentions
- Havoc in the Auto Factory
- Death Comes to Barnegie Hall
- Mob-Breakers
- How Clean Is My Alley
- Death Valley Takes a Holiday
1942
- Mayhem at King Tut's Tomb
- The Hardy Family in the Penitentiary
- Forum for the Forlorn
- The Great Side Show Mystery
- Jack Haley in Court
- A Star Is Born
- Mountain Justice (1942)
- Vacation Plans
- Poor Old Charlie
- Roland Young and the Shrimp Cocktail
- Les Miserables
- The Courtin' of Ginny Suggs
- Robert Benchley
- Hugh Herbert
- Accept It or Pip Off
- Fred at the Opera
- A New Suit
- The First Allen's Alley
- Santa Claus Refuses to Mediate
1943
- The Missing Shot
- Jack Benny's Violin
- Oscar Levant
- The Phantom of Carnegie Hall
- The Shot in the Penthouse
- Fred's One Hundredth Texaco Show
- The Great Goldfish Murder
- Bela Lugosi's House
- Are You Raising Chickens?
- Fred's Life Story
- The Jockey Who Rode with Death
- Life Can Be Melchior
1944
- Lum Allen and His Barefoot Bobcats
- Duffy's Tavern
- The Three Dollars
- Louella Parsons' Last Stand
- Murder in Studio H
- The Black Market Murders
- Victory Gardens
- Fixing the Ticket
- Radio Versus Television
- The Pekinese of the Baskervilles
- North Dakota
- The Story of Moose Max
- One by Allen
- Portland's Birthday
- South Dakota
1945
- Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
- Hillbilly Music (Guest: Frank Sinatra)
- Charlie McCarthy Sues for Slander
- Mash Notes (Guest: Martha Raye)
- Charlie the Chicken (Guest: Monty Woolley)
- Renting a House (Guest: Boris Karloff)
- Seeking a Radio Job
- Radio Shows in Russia
1946
- Take It or Leave It (Guest: Phil Baker)
- A Movie on Fred's Life (Guest: George Jessel)
- Beethoven's Confession
- Piccadilly Oklahoma (Guest: Beatrice Lillie)
- Les Misérables (Guest: Orson Welles)
- Carmen Miranda Visits
- The Brooklyn Pinafore (1946)
- The Racing Form Trial
- Mr. and Mrs. Breakfast Show (Guest: Tallulah Bankhead)
- Cairo (Guest: Sydney Greenstreet)
- King for a Day
- The Bowery
- Anniversary of the Telephone (Guest: Oscar Levant)
- Love, Honor and Obey
- Mr. and Mrs. Breakfast Show Reprise (Guest: Tallulah Bankhead)
1947
- British Radio
- Buying Duffy's Tavern
- Lawbusters
- Lauritz Melchior Wants a Radio Job
- Murder in the Penthouse (Guests: The Quiz Kids)
- Picadilly, with Beatrice Lillie
- Suing Fred over Piccadilly Rights (Guests: Rodgers and Hammerstein)
- The Hollywood Mikado
- Gimmick with a Microphone (Guest: Rudy Vallee)
- I Stand Condemned
- Fred the Boarder (Guests: Ozzie and Harriet)
- The Perfect Crime, with James Mason
- New Year's Eve Plans (Guest: George Jessel)
- Returning Fred's Cuckoo Clock (Guest: Monty Woolley)
1948
- One Long Pan
- Husband and Wife Radio Show (Guests: James and Pamela Mason)
- One Long Pan (Guest: Basil Rathbone)
- The Author Meets His Match (Guest: James Farley)
- Baseball Tickets (Guest: Leo Durocher)
- J.P. Morgan Court of Human Relations (Guest: Henry Morgan)
- Break the Contestant (Guest: Don McNeill)
- Bing Crosby's Life Story (Guest: Bing Crosby)
- Quiz Program and Soap Opera (Guest: Jack Eigen)
- Prize for Listeners Missing Any Contest (Guest: Dale Carnegie)
- Sam Shovel, Private Eye (Guest: Arthur Treacher)
- TV Commercials (Guest: Henry Morgan)
- Maine Murder Trial
1949
- Literary Panel (Guest: H. Allen Smith)
- Traveling Salesman (Guest: Jack Haley)
- Planning a Television Show (Guest: Bert Lahr)
- Murder Case (Guest: Doc Rockwell)
- Cease the Melody
- Just Plain Fred
- Mob Buster (Guest: Victor Moore)
- The Mad Doctor of Downing Street
- The Tortoise and the Hare
- The Final Fred Allen Show (Guests: Jack Benny and Henry Morgan)
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