My Favorite Husband began as a radio sitcom on CBS
Radio, with Lucille Ball and Richard Denning as Liz and George Cooper
(Cugat in a very few early episodes, until bandleader Xavier Cugat
was said to be edgy about the radio couple sharing the name). The
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 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
program ran from 1948 through 1951, throughout which 124 episodes
were aired.
The program 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, believing average listeners would
find them more accessible.
This collection of My Favorite Husband Greats includes
115 different shows and appearances for a total of 48+ hours of
listening enjoyment.
This product is a DVD collection of Old Time Radio mp3s. It is
designed to be played on your computer DVD drive with standard mp3
software - like Windows media player or its equivalent on Macintosh
computers. The mp3 files on the DVDs can be copied onto CDs for
play in your car stereo, home entertainment center, etc so you can
take your favorite shows with you anywhere you go.
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