First aired November 24, 1933.

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First aired March 21, 1934.

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About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

Judge Allen holds a makeshift court in a series of comic cases, with the Judge's clerk Portland Hoffa and his regulars bringing in a stream of odd defendants. Among them are a feuding couple seeking separation, a vain patient who wants damages from a plastic surgeon, and a streetcar motorman accused of drunkenness after a man is injured on the tracks. The Judge's ideas about law grow increasingly absurd, and the proceedings drift from one unlikely case to the next. This is the Fred Allen comedy series, first broadcast on March 28, 1934, on CBS and NBC, with Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious in the cast. The recording breaks off before the episode ends.

With Judge Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Miss Kurtle, Henry Coy, Pinkbaum, Edward Bells.

Listen for: Judge Allen's escalating, nonsensical rulings, particularly the plastic surgery case and the drunken motorman trial.

First aired on March 28, 1934 on CBS / NBC.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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