Phil Harris and Dennis Day rode the popularity of Jack Benny on their own programs on NBC. In fact, for the first two years of its run, Harris' show immediately followed Benny's.
Broadcast History: 25 November 1944 to 28 September 1958Theme Tune: March from 'Love for Three Oranges', by Sergei Prokofiev
In 1944 came The FBI in Peace and War, a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewis Collins' book of the same name. The series was long running, and Time Magazine noted it as the eighth most popular radio series in 1955. The series starred crime-fighter Martin Blaine as field agent Sheppard, and was told from the perspective of the bad guy, with the focus on how the FBI had hunted him down.
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