The Baby Snooks Show
CBS
CBS · 1936–1951
Broadcasts
346
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1936
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1936–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 346
- Genre
- comedy
The Baby Snooks Show (sometimes called Baby Snooks and Daddy) began on CBS September 17, 1944, airing on Sunday evenings at 6:30pm as Post Toasties Time (for sponsor General Foods). The title soon changed to The Baby Snooks Show CAST: Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks. Henley Stafford as Lancelot "Daddy" Higgins, Baby Snooks father. Lalive Brownell as "Mommy" Higgins (later played by Lois Corbet and Arlene Harris).Leone Ledoux as Snook’s little brother Roberspierre. Baby Snooks came about through bad dentistry. Fanny had had teeth problems for years, and before one particular radio rehearsal her dentist let her come away without her dentures. Fanny was unable to speak properly. Frantic, the producer suddenly remembered a cute baby act Fanny would do at parties and in front of friends. It was the only thing she could do in her current condition. "What do you call her?" the producer cried. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTR_Baby-Snooks”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 16 years on the air, with 10 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1936, in original transmission order.
- 1. BSnks 1936-01-26 Ziegfeld Follies of the Air · 26 Jan 1936
- 2. BSs 1939-04-04 #009 House Breaking · 4 Apr 1939
- 3. BSs 1939-10-05 #022 Mudneck · 5 Oct 1939
- 01
BSnks 1936-01-26 Ziegfeld Follies of the Air
26 Jan 1936 · 1h 1m
Originally broadcast on CBS, 26 January 1936. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
- 02
BSs 1939-04-04 #009 House Breaking
4 Apr 1939 · 6 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 April 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
- 03
BSs 1939-10-05 #022 Mudneck
5 Oct 1939 · 7 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 5 October 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
- 04
BSs Male Secretary
11 Jan 1940 · 8 min
- 05
BSnks 1940-04-04 April Fools
4 Apr 1940 · 8 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 April 1940. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
- 06
where is the medicine 09 26 1940
26 Sep 1940 · 10 min
- 07
Baby Snooks 73
9 Jan 1941 · 9 min
- 08
BSs 1941-05-08 #086 Riding Academy
8 May 1941 · 9 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 8 May 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
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