Courting Disaster: The Way It Was, 1 September

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BOB & RAY PRESENT THE CBS RADIO NETWORK:
COURTROOM OF THE AIR
(IF YOU HAVE TO ASK, WE'RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT, 1959)

In a quietly clever zap at lenient trial judges, it's Superior Court Presser stumbling into a sentence of a flat fifteen years before bawling out . . . the district attorney, then freeing the manslaughterer. Meanwhile, the team examines a fresh cache of oysters, reports on a massive starling invasion in Mount Vernon, New York, and brings in Johnny Braddock to play another warped round of "Sports-a-Phone."

Writers, reputedly: Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding.

CHANNEL SURFING . . .

THE GOLDBERGS: A WOMAN AND A BOY HIDING IN THE BARN (CBS, 1941)---They don't spot them at first, prompting already aggravated Jake (John R. Waters) to urge the family back to the house, where a pot of coffee might seem therapeutic, but there they are . . . conversing in French, and rather flummoxing even the usually bighearted Molly (Gertrude Berg) and empathetic Sammy (Alfred Ryder) and Rosalie (Roslyn Siber). Writer/director: Gertrude Berg.

VIC & SADE: ARRANGING THE HONEYMOON (NBC, 1944)---Sade (Bernadine Flynn) and Russell (David Whitehouse) are anxious not to disturb Uncle Fletcher (Clarence Hartzell) as he arranges his new business affairs, though even he can't resist keeping up with the latest on Vic (Art Van Harvey) and Sade's landlady's honeymoon plans. Writer/director: Paul Rhymer.

THE LES PAUL SHOW: THREE LITTLE WORDS (NBC, 1950)---The master guitarist can't resist bragging about a fresh new suit he bought at a fire sale, before unfurling a gently swinging take of "Three Little Words" and a preview of the next Les Paul and Mary Ford single, "Sugar Sweet." Other music highlights: the charming "Goofus" (the scheduled flip side for "Sugar Sweet"), and a breezy vocal version of "In the Good Old Summertime," a number Paul used to audition for his very early professional stint with the Ben Bernie orchestra.