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Old Gold Comedy Theater
30 episodes Aired 1944-1945
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1. The Palm Beach Story
   29mins Aired 1944-10-29
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2. True To Life
   30mins Aired 1944-11-12
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3. Vivacious Lady
   30mins Aired 1944-11-19
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4. Clarence
   30mins Aired 1944-11-26
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5. Take A Letter, Darling
   30mins Aired 1944-12-03
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6. Lucky Partners
   29mins Aired 1944-12-17
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7. Bachelor Mother
   30mins Aired 1944-12-24
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8. Room Service
   24mins Aired 1944-12-31
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9. The Lady Eve
   30mins Aired 1945-01-07
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10. Nothing But the Truth
    30mins Aired 1945-01-14
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11. The Show-Off
    30mins Aired 1945-01-21
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12. Appointment for Love
    30mins Aired 1945-01-28
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13. My Favorite Wife
    30mins Aired 1945-02-04
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14. A Girl, A Guy and A Gob
    30mins Aired 1945-02-11
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15. The Milky Way
    30mins Aired 1945-02-18
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16. You Can't Ration Love
    29mins Aired 1945-02-25
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17. Standing Room Only
    30mins Aired 1945-03-04
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18. The Magnificent Dope
    30mins Aired 1945-03-11
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19. A Lady Takes A Chance
    30mins Aired 1945-03-18
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20. Brewster's Millions
    30mins Aired 1945-03-25
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21. The Major and the Minor
    30mins Aired 1945-04-01
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22. A Slight Case of Murder
    30mins Aired 1945-04-08
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23. The Nervous Wreck
    30mins Aired 1945-04-22
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24. Scatterbrain
    30mins Aired 1945-04-29
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25. Hired Wife
    30mins Aired 1945-05-06
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26. She Loves Me Not
    30mins Aired 1945-05-13
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27. Boy Meets Girl
    30mins Aired 1945-05-20
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28. June Moon
    30mins Aired 1945-05-27
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29. Having A Wonderful Crime
    30mins Aired 1945-06-03
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30. Tom, Dick and Harry
    30mins Aired 1945-06-10
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Old Gold Comedy Theater was a radio show that aimed to bring light-hearted entertainment to its audience. The show took its inspiration from the successful format used by the Lux Radio Theatre and Cecil B. DeMille. As a comedy series, it featured adaptations of movie scripts and top-notch actors, with each episode providing fast-paced, farcical stories and romantic "Boy and Girl Fall in Love Against The Odds" themes. Silent film star, Harold Lloyd, who had worked with film pioneer Cecil B. DeMille, was enlisted to host and present the plays. Lloyd became part of the action of the show, participating in the "play within a play" commercials and introducing the featured stories, which were primarily screwball comedies.

The radio show aired on NBC for a single season, with episodes broadcasted from October 29, 1944, to June 10, 1945. It was produced by the Lennen and Mitchell ad agency for the Lorillard Tobacco Company, the makers of Old Gold cigarettes. Out of the 32 episodes that were aired during its time, 30 are still in circulation today. The show was a unique merge of movies and radio and aimed to differentiate itself from other movie anthology programs with its concentration on screwball comedies and Lloyd's involvement. While the comedy adaptations were well-written for radio, a downside was the 30-minute format, which forced significant cuts from the original movie scripts, often resulting in the loss of humor and story elements.

Performers: Harold Lloyd

Sources: archive.org, otrcat.com