Guest Lana Turner - Abbott and Costello Radio Show

In Guest Lana Turner, Lou Costello returns to the radio show after more than 8 months, recuperating from rheumatic fever. If the insurance people will let him go on! And if NBC’s doctor gives him a clean bill of health! But Bugs Bunny is there to lend a hand? And by the time he makes it to the studio, Ken Niles is “filling in” for him, doing a love scene with Lana Turner!

What the radio audience, and the studio audience, didn’t know was that Lou’s beloved son had died in a tragic drowning accident a few hours earlier. He’d promised the little boy that morning that he’d hear his daddy’s voice over the radio — and he kept that promise. One the show was over, a heartbroken Lou dashed off the set. And his friend and partner, Bud Abbott, addressed the audience:

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