First aired November 24, 1933.

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First aired March 21, 1934.

Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.

Two new episodes a week. Every episode so far, and the guide: The Fred Allen Show on Stupid Potato

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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Fred Allen presents a comedy hour of loosely connected sketches, opening with a news spot about the New York circus arriving at Madison Square Garden, then turning to a bumbling poet, taxi riots, and a Hollywood studio where Allen plays a movie producer. Allen's harried studio boss juggles temperamental actresses, a self-declared tough-guy actor, a dieting ingenue and a Soviet visitor eager to learn American methods. The sketches are built on rapid-fire wordplay and mistaken phrases. The series aired on CBS and NBC, and this episode dates from April 4, 1934, with Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious in the cast.

With Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Roy Atwell, Nikolai Nikolovich Masseltov.

Listen for: Roy Atwell's stumbling spring poem and Fred Allen's studio sketches

First aired on April 4, 1934 on CBS / NBC.

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Fred Allen runs a comic detective agency, and his secretary Miss Clues handles the calls that come in. A string of odd cases follows: a lion missing from a circus, a stolen city herring, a radio orchestra whose trumpet player has vanished during a broadcast, and a claim of an invisible man. Each client arrives with a complaint and Allen questions them with his usual wisecracks. The series is Fred Allen, first heard on CBS and NBC, and this installment aired on April 11, 1934. Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious are the lead actors.

With Fred Allen, Miss Clues, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Colonel Farnham, Gunner, Pinkbaum.

Listen for: Allen's rapid-fire questioning of each client and the escalating absurdity of the cases.

First aired on April 11, 1934 on CBS / NBC.

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

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Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 189 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

Fred Allen, playing the editor of the Bedlam News, runs a chaotic newspaper office filled with odd visitors and bizarre assignments. A stream of wacky callers, a prizefighter seeking publicity, and a neighborhood family drawn into bridge games keep the staff busy. The broadcast is part of the Fred Allen series, first aired on April 18, 1934, with Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious in the leading parts. Its final segment turns to a listener's question about whether to buy a toupee.

With Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Mrs. Oswald Snug, Mr. Adam Hartburn, Wildcat Rock Morton, Mr. Laerfeld.

Listen for: The bridge-club sequence with Junior and Jenny, and the closing toupee question from Mr. Laerfeld

First aired on April 18, 1934 on CBS / NBC.

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