What happens
Fred Allen hosts a National Radio Week broadcast of his show, joined by Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious. The program moves through Allen's Alley, where Senator Claghorn, Titus Moody, Mrs. Nussbaum and McGee and McGee discuss the Victory Loan drive and their own bond efforts, with a sketch about a lost memory in the middle. The episode is part of the Fred Allen radio series, first broadcast on November 4, 1945, on CBS and NBC.
A 1945 radio studio broadcast of the Fred Allen Show, with the comedic street known as Allen's Alley
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Senator Claghorn, Titus Moody, Mrs. Nussbaum, McGee
Listen for: The Victory Loan drive jokes in Allen's Alley, and the Mash Note sketch in which Martha Ray plays a woman who has lost her memory
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.