Available for the first time on CD, this 9-Hour re-release of our Duffy's Tavern Volume One is the very first in our Archives collection. Once again these fantastic episodes from the 1951 season are available - along with a bonus track: the series' 1940 audition performance on Forecast.Come on back to the place where "the elite meet to eat" and visit with Archie and the gang. There is never a dull moment at the tavern on New York's 3rd Avenue.Episodes Include: Guest Joan Bennett 12-18-46, ...

Duffy’s Tavern was a radio comedy series featuring tavern manager Archie, his get-rich-quick schemes, and his well-known guest stars.The familiar opening song “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” is interrupted by the ring of a telephone and actor Ed Gardner’s New Yorkese accent as he answered, “Hello, Duffy’s Tavern, where the elite meet to eat. Archie the manager speakin’. Duffy ain’t here—oh, hello, Duffy.”Duffy’s Tavern, first heard in 1940, was cocreated and...

For twenty years Suspense brought radio listeners incalculable sharp inhales, tingled spines, and shortened breaths. Every week brought a fresh slate, a fresh cast, and a fresh challenge with an attention to detail and consistent script quality that never lost ground. From beginning to end, Suspense stands as one of radio’s lasting achievements — and the creative peak of the broadcast anthology format.Suspense: Omnibus includes twenty of the best episodes from the series that, true to form...

In one of the goofiest slapstick comedies on the radio, Archie the bartender assaulted the English language, and insulted most of Hollywood. Portrayed by series creator Ed Gardner, Archie had hard luck with the ladies. But, he must have had some appeal to draw a group of guest stars like Marlene Dietrich, Gypsy Rose Lee, Chester Morris, Ed Wynn, Bob Crosby, Rudy Vallee, and more. Or, maybe the credit goes to his compatriots Finnegan, Eddie, Miss Duffy, Clancy the Cop, Slippery McGuire, and...

A dive bar before dive bars were cool — that’s Duffy’s Tavern. Radio’s favorite Third Avenue watering hole was full of zany New York characters and A-List guest stars, all presided over by your genial master of malaproprial management, Archie himself (played to perfection by Ed Gardner)!Join the Tavern regulars Eddie the Waiter, Clifton Finnegan, and Miss Duffy — plus VIP vistors like Bing Crosby, Dennis Day, and Artie Shaw — for sixteen laugh-packed episodes!Episodes Include: Archie’s Lif...