Amos & Andy "Man's Best Friend" (11-26-43) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
Amos 'n' Andy was a situation comedy popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s. The show began as one of the first radio comedy serials, written and voiced by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll and originating from station WMAQ in Chicago, Illinois. After the series was first broadcast in 1928, it grew in popularity and became a huge influence on the radio serials that followed. Amos 'n' Andy creators Gosden and Correll were white actors familiar with minstrel traditions.
THIS EPISODE:
November 26, 1943. NBC network. Commercials deleted. Andy spreads the rumor that he's inherited $10,000 so he can find out who his true friends are. He shortly finds himself in the hospital about to be operated on by a madman! Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Harlow Wilcox (announcer), Donald Meek (guest), Ernestine Wade. 26:05. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
