The Old Gold Comedy Theater — 1945

A brewery heir who cares for nothing but snakes comes home from a year up the Amazon straight into the hands of a card sharp and his daughter. She falls for him, he throws her over -- so she invents an entirely new woman and makes him do it again. Ralph Bellamy, Betty Field and Guy Kibbee.

A young stockbroker bets ten thousand dollars that he can go a full day without a single lie. He has not thought through what that will cost him, or how many other people it will cost along the way. Alan Young and Anne Baxter.

A Brooklyn braggart talks his way into a family that cannot abide him and keeps right on talking after the job funding all that swagger disappears. Fred Allen leads a New York company -- Alice Frost, Joseph Curtin and Claudia Morgan -- during the program's three-week run from the east.

A playwright is affronted when a doctor falls asleep during his play, and charmed enough to pursue her anyway. They marry in a rush, and only then does she explain her theory of modern marriage: separate apartments. Paul Henreid and Virginia Bruce.

Declared legally dead after seven years lost at sea, a wife walks back in on the very day her husband has remarried -- and it emerges she did not spend those seven years alone. Joel McCrea, Gail Patrick and Constance Moore.

A shy shipping executive falls hard for his temporary secretary, who is already spoken for by his own Navy friend -- and the friend is due back on shore in days. George Murphy and Lucille Ball, in a film Harold Lloyd himself had produced.

A meek milkman flattens the middleweight champion by pure accident, and the champion's manager sees money in building the milkman up through fixed bouts, just far enough to knock him down again. Robert Walker, James Gleason, Eve Arden and Nat Pendleton -- in an adaptation of one of Harold Lloyd's own pictures.

With the war leaving barely a handful of men on a campus full of women, the students of Adams College put courtship on a strict points system. Dick Haymes, with Betty Jane Rhodes back in the part she played on screen.

A businessman and his secretary arrive in wartime Washington to chase a government contract, discover she has cancelled the only hotel room in the city, and hire themselves out as a married pair of servants instead. Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard.

A self-improvement academy going broke tries a publicity stunt: locate the least successful man in the country and reform him. The winner turns out to be perfectly happy as he is, and starts winning the paying students over to his side. William Gargan, Janet Blair and Tom Drake.

Riding a sightseeing coach out west to escape her Manhattan suitors, a young woman meets a rodeo hand who would rather keep company with horses and regards marriage as a trap. She takes that as an invitation. Randolph Scott and Gene Tierney.

To collect eight million dollars, a young man must first get rid of one million in sixty days, may explain himself to no one, and must stay unmarried -- while everybody who knows him concludes he has gone mad. Dennis O'Keefe, Helen Walker and Mischa Auer.

Short of the fare home, a working girl dresses as a twelve-year-old to buy a child's ticket, gets found out, and has to keep the performance running inside an army major's compartment. Joan Fontaine and Sonny Tufts.

With Prohibition over, a bootlegger goes straight and brews legal beer. Being a teetotaller himself, he is the last man in New York to discover that it is undrinkable and that nobody dares tell him. Edward G. Robinson and Allen Jenkins.

A hypochondriac carries his medicine chest off to a dude ranch for his health and turns up crooks, a jealous rival and a nurse worth every symptom. Jack Haley and Martha O'Driscoll.

A studio publicity man plants his girlfriend with an Ozark family so the boss can dramatically discover her -- and the boss goes to the Ozarks and discovers entirely the wrong girl. Judy Canova, in the Republic picture that made her a star.

An advertising man marries his secretary purely as a technicality, to shelter his money through a deal. Once it closes he wants out; she has other ideas, having meant it. Joan Bennett and Robert Paige.

A nightclub dancer who saw a murder goes to ground rather than testify, and hides out in a Princeton dormitory in borrowed men's clothes and a very severe haircut. Maria Montez, Tom Drake and Freddie Bartholomew.

Two runaway studio writers, ordered to find a vehicle for the lot's cowboy star, build an entire picture around the unborn baby of a waitress from the commissary. Chester Morris, Lee Tracy and Ann Sothern.

A small-town hopeful rides the train into New York to write song lyrics and falls in with a Tin Pan Alley veteran whose best years are well behind him. Jack Carson and Frank McHugh, from the Kaufman and Lardner play.

A lawyer whose two friends keep dragging him into murder cases finds their latest has left all three wanted by the police -- so he goes along on the honeymoon to stay out of a cell. Pat O'Brien, June Duprez and Tom Conway.

A telephone operator with three suitors -- the steady one, the rich one and the odd one -- dreams her way through married life with each in turn before she has to choose. June Allyson and Reginald Gardiner close the series.