On This Day, August 24: Bing and Rosie Duets
Also featured: Martin Kane, Lum and Abner.
August 24 Exhaustive Update
This report documents the comprehensive provenance, broadcast scheduling, commercial sponsorship, credited cast, production personnel, alternate circulating titles, and story synopses for historical broadcasts transmitting on August 24 across American network, daytime variety, and hardboiled detective radio history (1948–1962):
1. Broadcasts
| Title | Network, Airdate & Showtime | Sponsor & Commercial Ads | Credited Cast & Performers | Director, Writers & Crew | Genres | Story-First Plot Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Abner and Elizabeth Move In with Lum (Chester Lauck & Norris Goff — Frigidaire)" | CBS (WCBS) 1948-08-24 10:00 PM EDT |
General Motors Frigidaire Appliances |
Chester Lauck (Lum), Norris Goff (Abner) | Chester Lauck & Norris Goff, Larry Berns, Wendell Niles | ["Comedy", "Sitcom", "Rural", "Americana", "Dialect"] |
Down in Pine Ridge, Arkansas, chaos erupts at the Jot 'Em Down Store when Abner and Elizabeth temporarily move into Lum's bachelor quarters following a fumigation mishap at their farmhouse. |
| "Three Victims (Starring Joel McCrea as Ranger Jace Pearson — Wheaties)" | NBC (WNBC) 1952-08-24 6:30 PM EDT |
General Mills, Inc. Wheaties — "Champions" |
Joel McCrea (Ranger Pearson), Herb Vigran | Stacy Keach Sr. (Producer/Dir.), Joel Murcott, Hal Gibney | ["Western", "Police", "Procedural", "Action", "Detective"] |
Texas Ranger Jace Pearson uses ballistic trajectory analysis and tire tread casts to track down a cold-blooded highway bandit whose armed service station holdups leave three innocent victims in their wake. |
| "Breezin' Along with the Breeze (Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney — CBS)" | CBS (WCBS) 1961-08-24 10:45 AM EDT |
Sustaining Daytime Music Showcase |
Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Buddy Cole Trio | Bill Morrow (Producer/Director), Jim Ameche (Announcer) | ["Music", "Vocal", "Easy Listening", "Jazz", "Duet"] |
Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney share easygoing humor and sublime vocal harmonies accompanied by Buddy Cole's swinging organ trio, performing 'Breezin' Along with the Breeze' and 'Lazy River'. |
| "Carolina in the Morning (Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney — CBS)" | CBS (WCBS) 1962-08-24 10:45 AM EDT |
Sustaining Daytime Music Showcase |
Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Buddy Cole Trio | Bill Morrow (Producer/Director), Buddy Cole (Arranger) | ["Music", "Vocal", "Easy Listening", "Jazz", "Duet"] |
America's favorite musical pairing Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney delight daytime listeners with playful banter and sunny jazz duets of 'Carolina in the Morning' and 'Pennies from Heaven' with Buddy Cole's Trio. |
| "The Warehouse Arson and Murder Case (Lt. Ben Guthrie — The Lineup)" | CBS (WCBS) 1950-08-24 10:00 PM EDT |
Sustaining Police Procedural |
Bill Johnstone (Lt. Guthrie), Wally Maher (Sgt. Grebb) | Blake Edwards (Writer), Jaime del Valle, Dan Cubberly | ["Police", "Procedural", "Noir", "Detective", "Crime"] |
"Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true..." Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Sergeant Matt Grebb of the San Francisco Police Department investigate a scorched warehouse blaze, discovering a charred corpse that turns an apparent insurance fire into a first-degree homicide investigation. |
| "The Manhattan Bar Bombing (Starring Lee Tracy as Martin Kane — Sano Cigarettes)" | NBC (WNBC) 1952-08-24 4:30 PM EDT |
U.S. Tobacco Co. Sano & Model Pipe Tobacco |
Lee Tracy (Martin Kane), Walter Kinsella, Horace McMahon | Ted Hediger (Writer), Frank Burns, Fred Cole | ["Detective", "Hardboiled", "Mystery", "Noir", "Crime"] |
Hardboiled Manhattan private eye Martin Kane drops into Happy McMann's tobacco shop for pipe tobacco before investigating a deadly Manhattan tavern explosion after witnesses report a mysterious blonde delivered a ticking package. |