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The date is the recording date, the program was released very late in 1942.
Command Performance – Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore (m. c.), Ken Carpenter (announcer), The Merry Macs, Ethel Waters, Dorothy Lamour, The Joseph Lilley Paramount Chorus, The Mills Brothers, Spike Jones, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Harry James and His Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, Bob Burns.
Tallulah Bankhead (m. c.), Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Eddie Cantor, Judy Holliday, Gypsy Rose Lee, Vaughn Monroe, Patrice Munsel, Meredith Willson and His Orchestra.
NBC network. Sponsored by Buick, RCA Victor, Anacin.
Tallulah complains about 10:00 A. M. rehearsals for the show. The first tune is I’m James The Fifth sung by Jimmy Durante. Louis Calhern appears in a scene from “The Magnificent Yankee.”
The Big Show – Jimmy Durante and Jack Carter
Tallulah Bankhead (m. c.), Meredith Willson and His Orchestra, Louis Calhern, Jack Carter, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Florence Desmond, Fran Warren, Dee Englebach (producer, director), Goodman Ace (writer), Selma Diamond (writer), George Foster, Morton Green (writer), Frank Wilson (writer), Ed Herlihy (announcer).
NBC network. Sponsored by Buick, RCA Victor, Anacin.
The date is the recording date, the program was released late 1942.
Command Performance – Jack Benny and Alice Faye
Alice Faye, Cass Daley, Marlene Fingerle, Arthur Schutt, Eddie Anderson, Edward Marr, John Lake, Jack Benny (m. c.), Don Wilson (announcer), The Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Orchestra, Alfred Newman (conductor).
Edward G. Robinson appears in a scene by Cornell Woolrich. Four strangers are invited to a strange dinner. Phil Baker tells his thoughts about television and ad libs with Tallulah. Phil also plays an accordion solo of his own composition. Marlene Dietrich sings Falling in Love Again. Danny Thomas sings about the West and gives an excellent performance. Tallulah does a monologue about a New Year’s party. The scene is then reconstructed from the man’s point of view.
The Big Show – Fred Allen and Danny Thomas
Tallulah Bankhead (m. c.), Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Danny Thomas, Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, Phil Baker, Fran Warren, Meredith Willson and His Orchestra, Cornell Woolrich (writer), Ed Herlihy (announcer), Dee Englebach (producer, director), Goodman Ace (writer), Selma Diamond (writer), Mort Green (writer), Frank Wilson (writer), George Foster (writer).
NBC network. Sponsored by Ford, RCA Victor, Anacin, Chesterfield.
Judy Canova starts the show by singing a great Two Hours After the Crap Game or I Can’t Give You Anthing but Love.
The date is the recording date.
Command Performance – Betty Grable and Judy Canova
Betty Grable (m. c.), Don Wilson (announcer), Judy Canova, Edgar Bergen, Kenny Baker, Ella Mae Morse, Freddy Slack and His Orchestra, Columbia Pictures Orchestra, Morris Stoloff (conductor).
The first tune is Mad About Him Blues. 
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