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Christmas Program

December 23, 1951 rich

Cast: Milton Berle, Margaret Truman, Robert Merrill, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, Alec Templeton

No audio currently held for this broadcast — status: missing from the surviving collection.

Synopsis

Milton Berle took a rare straight dramatic turn opposite Bankhead in Joel Murcott's original Christmas script, playing two once-successful performers who reunite, still quarreling, on the road in a snowbound North Dakota town. Robert Merrill sang from "Otello," Margaret Truman and Ozzie and Harriet Nelson also appeared, and Alec Templeton closed with piano impressions including a send-up of Bankhead's own singing.

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Editorial Notes

• Christmas Program
• Milton Berle, Margaret Truman, Robert Merrill, Ozzie Nelson & Harriet Hilliard, Alac Templeton, Meredith Willson. Christmas Program (Haendiges log)