Episode 420 - Favorites from 1949

Comedy legends, legendary leading men, and the first lady of Suspense - they’re all here in my favorite episodes of 1949! Fibber McGee and Molly take the car ride from hell with an uninvited passenger in “Backseat Driver” (originally aired on CBS on February 3, 1949), and Gregory Peck wakes up with a missing memory and a murder charge in “Murder Through the Looking Glass” (originally aired on CBS on March 31, 1949). Edward G. Robinson is a reluctant swindler who confides in the wrong crook in “You Can’t Die Twice” (originally aired on CBS on March 31, 1949), and Agnes Moorehead is being driven out of her house by an unseen presence in “The Trap” (originally aired on CBS on June 16, 1949). Ralph Edwards invites us to join him for a night in a haunted house in “Ghost Hunt” (originally aired on CBS on June 23, 1949), and Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz star in a story of a a small time crook who may have found a professional on the run in “The Red Headed Woman” (originally aired on CBS on November 17, 1949). Finally, Jimmy Stewart is a veteran who discovers his torturer from the war is alive - and in his crosshairs - in “Mission Completed” (originally aired on CBS on December 1, 1949).