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Allen first hosted The Linit Bath Club Revue on CBS, moving the show to NBC and becoming The Salad Bowl Revue (in a nod to new sponsor Hellmann's Mayonnaise, which was marketed by the parent company of Linit) later in the year. The show became The Sal Hepatica Revue (1933–34), The Hour of Smiles (1934–35), and finally Town Hall Tonight (1935–39). In 1939–40, however, sponsor Bristol-Myers, which advertised Ipana toothpaste as well as Sal Hepatica during the program, altered the title to The Fred Allen Show, over his objections. Allen's perfectionism (odd to some, considering his deft ad-libs) caused him to leap from sponsor to sponsor until Town Hall Tonight allowed him to set his chosen small-town milieu and establish himself as a bona fide radio star.
Publicity photo for the premiere of Texaco Star Theater, 1940.
The hour-long show featured segments that would influence radio and, much later, television; news satires such as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In's "Laugh-In Looks at the News" and Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" were influenced by Town Hall Tonight's "The News Reel", later renamed "Town Hall News" (and in 1939–40, as a sop to his sponsor, "Ipana News"). The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson's "Mighty Carson Art Players" routines referenced Allen's Mighty Allen Art Players, in name and sometimes in routines. Allen and company also satirized popular musical comedies and films of the day, including and especially Oklahoma!. Allen also did semi-satirical interpretations of well-known lives – including his own.
The show that became Town Hall Tonight was the longest-running hour-long comedy-based show in classic radio history. In 1940, Allen moved back to CBS Radio with a new sponsor and show name, Texaco Star Theater airing every Wednesday at 9:00 pm ET on CBS, then Sundays at 9:00 pm in the fall of 1941. By 1942, he shortened the show to half an hour, at 9:30 pm ET – under network and sponsor edict, not his own. He also chafed under being forced to give up a Town Hall Tonight signature, using barely known and amateur guests effectively, in favor of booking more recognizable guests, though he liked many of those. Guests included singers from Kingston, New York, the original woman behind the "Aunt Jemima" on syrup bottles, and more guests up the road - from Saugerties, like the singer, Donald Gardner.

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SHOWS LIST

Town Hall Tonight 35-06-26 (051) Last Show of the Season
Town Hall Tonight 35-10-02 (052) Once an Amateur, Always an Amateur
Town Hall Tonight 35-10-16 (054) Who Killed Kirk Reuben
Town Hall Tonight 35-11-06 (057) The Wild Women of the Wilderness or He was her Mate and her Lyonnaise Potato
Town Hall Tonight 35-11-27 (060) Voopie on the Volga or They Drank and Drank Until they Borscht
Town Hall Tonight 35-12-04 (061) Amateur Show
Town Hall Tonight 35-12-11 (062) Uncle Tom's Hot Spot or It Might be Hammy But it Ain't Porgy
Town Hall Tonight 35-12-25 (064) Department Store Santa
Town Hall Tonight 36-01-01 (065) Murder at the Microphone
Town Hall Tonight 36-01-15 (067) Home on the Range
Town Hall Tonight 36-01-22 (068) Mumbo, or Who Stole the Elephant from Billy Nose's Finale
Town Hall Tonight 36-01-29 (069) Lord Falconbeak's Dilemma
Town Hall Tonight 36-02-05 (070) Amateur Show
Town Hall Tonight 36-02-19 (072) The Fatal Shot
Town Hall Tonight 36-03-04 (074) Murder Backstage
Town Hall Tonight 36-03-11 (075) Colonel Culpeper's Plight
Town Hall Tonight 36-03-25 (077) The Studio's Dilemma
Town Hall Tonight 36-04-08 (079) Hortense's Dilemma
Town Hall Tonight 36-04-15 (080) Sandy's Crime
Town Hall Tonight 36-04-22 (081) The Lost Vice President
Town Hall Tonight 36-04-29 (082) The Slogan
Town Hall Tonight 36-05-20 (085) The Comedian's Plight
Town Hall Tonight 36-05-27 (086) Trombone Annie
Town Hall Tonight 36-06-03 (087) Murder in the Chop House
Town Hall Tonight 36-06-10 (088) Welcome Stranger
Town Hall Tonight 36-06-17 (089) Stoopnagel And Budd
Town Hall Tonight 36-09-23 (091) Buck Rogers In The Twenty-Fifth Century
Town Hall Tonight 36-09-30 (092) Gangbusters
Town Hall Tonight 36-10-07 (093) Who Killed Rappaport
Town Hall Tonight 36-10-14 (094) Will She Come Out
Town Hall Tonight 36-10-21 (095) Murder At Cupcake County
Town Hall Tonight 36-11-04 (097) Studio Strategy
Town Hall Tonight 36-11-18 (099) The Great Dane Mystery
Town Hall Tonight 36-11-25 (100) The Egg Baron
Town Hall Tonight 36-12-02 (101) The Prodigal Daughter's Return
Town Hall Tonight 36-12-09 (102) The Community Sing
Town Hall Tonight 36-12-16 (103) The Million Dollar Smile
Town Hall Tonight 36-12-23 (104) Ambrose Smith, Department Store Santa
Town Hall Tonight 37-03-10 (115) Murder on the High Seas, or One Long Pan Helps Boy Meet Gull
Town Hall Tonight 37-03-17 (116) St Patrick's Day Show
Town Hall Tonight 37-12-22 (137) Santa Will Not Ride Tonight
Town Hall Tonight 37-12-29 (138) The Great Swimming Pool Mystery
Town Hall Tonight 38-03-23 (150) High Wide and Homely
Town Hall Tonight 38-04-13 (153) The Hotel Mystery
Town Hall Tonight 38-04-20 (154) Scoop Allen Comes Through
Town Hall Tonight 38-04-27 (155) The True Story of Your Hero
Town Hall Tonight 38-05-04 (156) Who Killed the Hula Hula Dancer
Town Hall Tonight 38-05-18 (158) The House That Jack Built
Town Hall Tonight 38-05-25 (159) Who Stole the Favorite or the Race Track Mystery
Town Hall Tonight 38-06-08 (161) The Music Publisher Needed A Tune
Town Hall Tonight 38-06-22 (166) The Studio's Predicament
Town Hall Tonight 38-11-02 (169) November, Month Of Harvest And Thanksgiving
Town Hall Tonight 38-11-09 (170) If I Were Too
Town Hall Tonight 38-11-16 (171) The Bank's Dilemma
Town Hall Tonight 38-12-07 (174) Hillbilly Justice (1)
Town Hall Tonight 38-12-07 (174) Hillbilly Justice (2)
Town Hall Tonight 38-12-14 (175) Santa Claus (1)
Town Hall Tonight 38-12-14 (175) Santa Claus (2)
Town Hall Tonight 39-02-22 (185) Murder at the Opera
Town Hall Tonight 39-03-22 (189) Murder at Addison Square Garden
Town Hall Tonight 39-04-05 (191) The Studio's Plight
Town Hall Tonight 39-06-21 (202) Crisis on the Showboat