OLD TIME RADIO - 2 CD-ROM - 145 mp3
Includes 31 various shows with Lucille Ball as guest.

Total Time: 69:06:55

My Favorite Husband is the name of an American radio program and network television series. The original radio show, co-starring Lucille Ball, was the initial basis for what evolved into the groundbreaking TV sitcom I Love Lucy. The series was based on the 1940 novel Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, written by Isabel Scott Rorick, which had previously been adapted into the 1942 Paramount feature film Are Husbands Necessary?, co-starring Ray Milland and Betty Field.
My Favorite Husband began on CBS Radio with Lucille Ball and Richard Denning as Liz and George Cugat. After a few early episodes, confusion with bandleader Xavier Cugat prompted a name change to Liz and George Cooper. The cheerful couple lived at 321 Bundy Drive in the fictitious city of Sheridan Falls and were billed as "two people who live together and like it." The main sponsor was General Foods' Jell-O, and an average of three "plugs" for Jell-O were made in each episode, including Lucille Ball's usual sign-on, "Jell-O, everybody!" The 1948 radio version opened with:

Bob LeMond: It's time for My Favorite Husband starring Lucille Ball!
Lucille Ball: Jell-O, everybody!
Theme music [composed by Marlin Skiles, conducted by Wilbur Hatch]
LeMond: Yes, it's the gay family comedy series starring Lucille Ball with Richard Denning and is brought to you by the Jell-O family of Red-Letter Desserts:
Singers:

J-E-L-L-
O! The big red letters stand for the Jell-O family,
Oh, the big red letters stand for the Jell-O family,
That's Jell-O!
Yum, yum, yum!
Jell-O pudding!
Yum, yum, yum!
Jell-O tapioca pudding, yes sir-ee!

LeMond: Now, let's take a look at the Cooper family, two people who live together and like it.

The program, which aired 124 episodes from July 23, 1948 through March 31, 1951, initially portrayed the couple as being a well-to-do banker and his socially prominent wife, but three new writers — Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh and Jess Oppenheimer — took over the writing, changed the couple's name to Cooper and remade them into a middle-class couple, which they thought average listeners would find more accessible.

Lucille Ball was asked to do a television version of the show (with Jell-O remaining as sponsor), and CBS insisted on Richard Denning continuing as her co-star. However, Ball refused to do a husband-and-wife TV show without real-life husband Desi Arnaz playing her on-screen husband. The network reluctantly agreed, reworking the concept into I Love Lucy after Ball and Arnaz took a show on the road to convince the network that audiences would respond. When Jell-O dropped out of the show, Philip Morris became the television sponsor.

Carroll, Pugh and Oppenheimer agreed to do the switch to I Love Lucy. They subsequently reworked several My Favorite Husband episodes into I Love Lucy episodes, especially early in the TV show's run. For example, the 1948 radio episode entitled "Giveaway Program" inspired the I Love Lucy episode "Redecorating," with some lines exactly the same. Many actors who had done the My Favorite Husband radio show also appeared on I Love Lucy, sometimes in episodes where they reprised their roles using a reworked My Favorite Husband script.
Characters

* Liz Cooper, played by Lucille Ball; happily married housewife
* George Cooper, played by Richard Denning; Liz's husband, works for Mr. Atterbury
* Mr. Rudolph Atterbury, played by Gale Gordon; George's boss, friend of the Cooper family, refers to male acquaintances as "boy", as in "George-Boy"
* Mrs. Iris Atterbury, played by Bea Benaderet; wife of Rudolph and friend of the Cooper family, refers to female acquaintances as "girl", as in "Liz-Girl".
* Katy, played by Ruth Perrott; the Cooper's maid, presumably enjoys making Jell-O.
* Mrs. Leticia Cooper, played first by Benaderet and in subsequent episodes by Eleanor Audley; George's aristocratic mother, who typically looks down on Liz.

Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet were both given first consideration for the roles that would become Fred and Ethel Mertz on "I Love Lucy", but both had contract conflicts that forced them to turn down the roles.

EPISODES LIST

Disc 1
My Favorite Husband 48-07-05 (000) The Cugats Tenth Wedding Anniversary (Audition)
My Favorite Husband 48-07-23 (001) Literary Clubs Speaker Comes to Dinner
My Favorite Husband 48-08-06 (003) Portrait Artist
My Favorite Husband 48-08-13 (004) The Charity Bazaar Kissing Booth
My Favorite Husband 48-08-20 (005) Liz Teaches the Samba
My Favorite Husband 48-09-03 (007) Lizs Mother Has Second Thoughts
My Favorite Husband 48-09-17 (009) Liz and the General
My Favorite Husband 48-09-24 (010) Knitting Baby Booties
My Favorite Husband 48-10-02 (011) Young Matron League Tryouts
My Favorite Husband 48-10-03 (012) Georges Old Flame
My Favorite Husband 48-10-09 (013) Young Matrons League Play
My Favorite Husband 48-10-16 (014) Liz Sells Dresses
My Favorite Husband 48-10-23 (015) The Quiz Show
My Favorite Husband 48-11-06 (017) Katy and Roscoe
My Favorite Husband 48-11-13 (018) Learning to Drive
My Favorite Husband 48-11-20 (019) George Attends a Teenage Dance
My Favorite Husband 48-11-27 (020) Is There a Baby in the House
My Favorite Husband 48-12-04 (021) Be Your Husband's Best Friend
My Favorite Husband 48-12-18 (023) Liz's New Dress
My Favorite Husband 48-12-25 (024) Numerology
My Favorite Husband 49-01-01 (025) Young Matrons' League Tryouts
My Favorite Husband 49-01-07 (026) Over Budget - Beans
My Favorite Husband 49-01-14 (027) Piano and Violin Lessons
My Favorite Husband 49-01-21 (028) Marriage License Error
My Favorite Husband 49-01-28 (029) The Absolute Truth
My Favorite Husband 49-02-04 (030) Speech for Civic Organization
My Favorite Husband 49-02-11 (031) Valentine's Day
My Favorite Husband 49-02-18 (032) Secretarial School
My Favorite Husband 49-02-25 (033) Absentmindedness
My Favorite Husband 49-03-04 (034) Mother-In-Law
My Favorite Husband 49-03-11 (035) Charity Review
My Favorite Husband 49-04-01 (038) April Fool's Day
My Favorite Husband 49-04-08 (039) Gum Machine - Demand Your Rights
My Favorite Husband 49-04-15 (040) Horseback Riding
My Favorite Husband 49-04-22 (041) Time Budgeting
My Favorite Husband 49-04-29 (042) Vacation Time
My Favorite Husband 49-05-06 (043) Overweight
My Favorite Husband 49-05-13 (044) Anniversary Presents
My Favorite Husband 49-05-20 (045) Getting Old
My Favorite Husband 49-05-27 (046) Liz in the Hospital
My Favorite Husband 49-06-10 (048) Hair Dyed
My Favorite Husband 49-06-17 (049) Television
My Favorite Husband 49-06-24 (050) Liz Changes Her Mind
My Favorite Husband 49-07-01 (051) Reminiscing
My Favorite Husband 49-09-02 (052) The Elves
My Favorite Husband 49-09-16 (054) Baseball
My Favorite Husband 49-09-23 (055) The Attic
My Favorite Husband 49-09-30 (056) Woman's Club Election
My Favorite Husband 49-10-07 (057) George Tries for a Raise
My Favorite Husband 49-10-14 (058) Television
My Favorite Husband 49-10-21 (059) Superstition
My Favorite Husband 49-10-28 (060) Halloween Surprise Party
My Favorite Husband 49-11-04 (061) Mother-In-Law
My Favorite Husband 49-11-11 (062) Baby Sitting
My Favorite Husband 49-11-18 (063) Katy and Mr Negley
My Favorite Husband 49-11-25 (064) The Quiz Show
My Favorite Husband 49-12-02 (065) College Homecoming
My Favorite Husband 49-12-09 (066) The French Lessons
My Favorite Husband 49-12-16 (067) George's Christmas Presents
My Favorite Husband 49-12-23 (068) The Sleigh Ride
My Favorite Husband 49-12-30 (069) Liz and George Are Handcuffed
My Favorite Husband 50-01-06 (070) Is There Another Woman
My Favorite Husband 50-01-13 (071) Liz Teaches Iris to Drive
My Favorite Husband 50-01-20 (072) Liz and the Green Wig
My Favorite Husband 50-01-27 (073) Liz Writes a Song
My Favorite Husband 50-02-03 (074) The Country Club Dance
My Favorite Husband 50-02-10 (075) Mrs. Coopers Boyfriend
My Favorite Husband 50-02-17 (076) Liz Teaches the Samba
My Favorite Husband 50-02-24 (077) Liz Redecorates the House
My Favorite Husband 50-03-03 (078) Women's Rights Part 1
My Favorite Husband 50-03-10 (079) Women's Rights Part 2
My Favorite Husband 50-03-17 (080) The Wills
My Favorite Husband 50-03-24 (081) Liz's Radio Script
My Favorite Husband 50-04-09 (083) Hobbies
My Favorite Husband 50-04-16 (084) Anniversary
My Favorite Husband 50-04-23 (085) The Friendship Award
My Favorite Husband 50-04-30 (086) Spring Cleaning
My Favorite Husband 50-05-14 (088) Numerology
My Favorite Husband 50-05-28 (090) Selling Dresses
My Favorite Husband 50-06-04 (091) George Is Messy
My Favorite Husband 50-06-11 (092) Liz Learns to Swim
My Favorite Husband 50-06-18 (093) Be a Pal
My Favorite Husband 50-06-25 (094) Dancing Lessons
My Favorite Husband 50-09-02 (095) Old Clothes Sold to the Junkman
My Favorite Husband 50-09-09 (096) Gossip
My Favorite Husband 50-09-30 (099) Liz Changes Her Mind
My Favorite Husband 50-10-07 (100) Liz Becomes a Sculptress
My Favorite Husband 50-10-14 (101) Liz Cooks Dinner for Twelve
My Favorite Husband 50-10-21 (102) Safety Drive
My Favorite Husband 50-10-28 (103) The Football Game

Disc 2
My Favorite Husband 50-11-04 (104) The Two Mrs. Coopers
My Favorite Husband 50-11-18 (106) Liz Goes to Night School
My Favorite Husband 50-11-25 (107) Liz's Birthday
My Favorite Husband 50-12-02 (108) Trying to Marry off Peggy Martin
My Favorite Husband 50-12-09 (109) Trying to Cash the Prize Check
My Favorite Husband 50-12-16 (110) Christmas Card Pictures
My Favorite Husband 50-12-23 (111) The Christmas Stag
My Favorite Husband 50-12-30 (112) Liz Has the Flimjabs
My Favorite Husband 51-01-06 (113) Liz Substitutes at a Club Play
My Favorite Husband 51-01-13 (114) The Cuckoo Clock
My Favorite Husband 51-01-20 (115) Liz Stretches the Truth
My Favorite Husband 51-01-27 (116) George Is Drafted - Liz's Baby
My Favorite Husband 51-02-03 (117) Liz Develops Inferiority Complex
My Favorite Husband 51-02-10 (118) The Misunderstanding of the Black Eye
My Favorite Husband 51-02-24 (120) The Two Mothers-In-Law
My Favorite Husband 51-03-03 (121) The Passports
My Favorite Husband 51-03-10 (122) The Surprise Party
My Favorite Husband 51-03-24 (124) Iris and Liz's Easter
Bing Crosby Show 43-04-01 lucille ball
Bing Crosby Show 54-03-02 Lucille Ball
Bob Hope Show 461112 Guest - Lucille Ball, Miss Lou Ann
Bob Hope Show 490503 Lucille Ball
Campbell Playhouse 400218 50 Dinner at Eight
Cavalcade of America 500613 660 The Redemption of Lottie Moon
GI Journal 45-03-09 First Song - Jeepers Creepers, Groucho Marx, Lucille Ball
GI Journal 45-04-27 Guest - Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Rochester
Good News Of 39-12-28 Guest - Lucille Ball
Hollywood Byline 50-01-14 Guest - Lucille Ball
Jimmy Durante Show 471029 Making A Movie With Lucille Ball
Jimmy Durante Show 480428 Women In Industry With Lucille Ball
Kraft Music Hall 43-04-01 First Song - You Are My Sunshine, Guest - Lucille Ball
Kraft Music Hall 43-10-07 First Song - The Road To Victory, Guest - Lucille Ball
Kraft Music Hall 44-03-02 First Song - (Therell Be A) Hot Time In The Town Of Berlin
Kraft Music Hall 48-01-22 First Song - Yacka Hula, Hickey Dula, Guest - Lucille Ball
Lux Radio Theater 44-09-25 Lucky Partners
Lux Radio Theater 47-11-10 The Dark Corner
Lux Radio Theater 50-03-27 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Lux Radio Theater 51-09-10 Fancy Pants
Martin & Lewis Show 49-04-03 Lucille Ball
Orson Welles Radio Almanac 44-03-08 07 Guest Lucille Ball
Orson Welles Radio Almanac 44-05-03 15 Lucille Ball
Radio Readers Digest 470522 64 The Lion and the Mouse
Screen Directors Playhouse 49-05-22 Her Husbands Affair
Screen Directors Playhouse 50-05-19 Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Screen Directors Playhouse 51-03-01 A Foreign Affair
Screen Directors Playhouse 51-03-08 Bachelor Mother
Screen Guil Theater 47-04-21 Too Many Husbands
Suspense 440113 Dime a Dance
Suspense 440622 The Ten Grand
Suspense 451025 A Shroud for Sarah
Suspense 481014 A Little Piece of Rope
Suspense 491117 The Red-Headed Woman
Suspense 510412 Early to Death
Tonight In Hollywood - Guest - Lucille Ball
Twenty Questions - 46-07-xx Guest - Lucille Ball