 Ladies and gentlemen, the Dennis Day Show. Since Dennis Day, Robert Iron Brewster in the orchestra, and Dennis Special Gather, Roseberry Clooney and Paramount's viewer star, Dick Shannon. And now here he is, the star of our show, Dennis Day. Most unusual day. Feel like throwing my worries away. As an old native born Californian would say, It's a most unusual day. There's a most unusual sky. Not a sign of a cloud passing by. And if I want to sing through my heart in the ring, It's a most unusual day. There is sunshine everywhere. And a feeling of spring in the air. It's a most unusual time. I keep feeling my temperature climb. If my heart would behave in it, well there's only one thing to say. It's a most unusual, most unusual, most unusual. Yes Jimmy, Roseberry Clooney is paying us a visit, and she's due here right now. Ladies and gentlemen, one of Paramount's loveliest singing stars, Miss Roseberry Clooney. Thank you Dennis. Roseberry, am I glad to see you. What did you want to see me about Dennis? Well look Roseberry, I'll tell you. In your next picture, you think you might be able to play opposite me? Well Dennis, this particular part calls for a big strong strapping rootin tootin Texan from Texas. Pardon me, you're looking at one. Where I come from, peas are the size of watermelon and four potatoes make a dozen, and you don't tell the kids about the birds and the bees. No sir, you tell them about elephants and hippopotamus. Tell me more Tex. I'll tell you what I'm going to do little lady. You sing me a right pretty little old song there now, and I'll give you a couple of trinkets for your charm bracelet. Rhode Island and Delaware. Delaware? No ma'am, I'm going to give you something to carry him home in. Grand Canyon. I'm going to hurry and sing before he wakes up. I just had the chance and I'm through myself, but it's you. To send wasn't small. Nowadays movies are going in for more realism. For this part we need a real honest to goodness rip roaring Texan. And I think the studio has just signed the ideal fellow for the part of this Texan. Who? Tennessee Ernie. Don't worry Dennis. I've got an idea for you that will utilize your talents perfectly. With this idea, every producer in Hollywood will be running after you. What is it? Say Rosemary. Well, it's Dick Shannon. Dennis, do you know Dick Shannon? Certainly, he's our other guest tonight. I invited him over to do a dramatic sketch. Good, I'll sit right here and listen. But wait a minute, you were telling me about a great idea you had for me in pictures. Later Dennis, right now I'm anxious to hear Dick Shannon. Well, okay. Ladies and gentlemen, in keeping with our regular feature presenting a new screen talent, tonight I have the pleasure of introducing Richard Shannon, six feet and 185 pounds of athletic physique, which spells outdoor action. Now he's cast as a telephone linesman in our dramatic scenario in a nutshell, written by Peter Curtis and titled, Dial 114. Dial 114 on your telephone and a pleasant, polite voice answers. Repair service. In response to your report of a buzzing on the wire or a bad connection, wheels are set in motion which expedite a truck full of equipment and a competent young man to make matters right for you. I'm Dan Baker. I'm a troubleshooter for the telephone company. You make a complaint, I'll make the repair. I had time for one more call before I knocked off for lunch. Well, what do you know? It's on Janesta Avenue, only two blocks from my house. Might as well go home and have lunch with the wife after this call. Maybe I shouldn't. Chris, my wife's been sure acting funny lately. Nervous light and jittery. The all began when she won the prize money in that radio giveaway program. You're a check for $2,500. Isn't it beautiful? It's pretty as a picture, Chris. What are you going to do with it? Frame it or buy the queen married? Neither. I've decided to put it in a savings account. But I thought you wanted so many things. A deep freeze at suede coat wall-to-wall carpeting for the house? I know all the things I wanted, Dan. I'm still going to bank it. I figured at the time that maybe Chris had the right idea. Save her any day and all that. But conk me the wrong way was the fact she deposited the money in her own name. The trouble on Janesta Avenue turned out to be routine. A complaint that there was interference on the line and the reception was bad. After checking the chatterbox in the house and finding it okay, I went out to the telephone pole a couple of houses down. I strapped on my belt and climbers. As I prepared to go up the toothpick, I recognized it as the terminal pole of the neighborhood. I was on the gang that anchored it when we first got phones on our track. After checking the line, finding it all clear, I hooked my earphone to the lead wire from my own house. I intended to give my wife a buzz and let her know I'd be home for lunch. It must be her. Oh, we might as well call the whole thing off. Wait a minute, Chris. I'm not letting you call it off. It's just that I don't think I can get there before six. But you know Dan gets home at five? We've got to follow our original plan. I already withdrew my money from the bank. I got a certified check. I'll have to let a few things go. We'll do it. We'll take care of them later, Jimmy. All right, Chris. What about the car? Leave it to me, Jimmy. I'll make sure Dan goes to put it in the garage. Good. I'll make sure the garage door is closed. When he opens it, I'll be there waiting. I forgot about lunch. I wasn't hungry. The afternoon went by in a daze and it was five o'clock. Checked the truck into the company garage and headed the family sedan for home. I made up my mind to let them go through with what they planned. Without Chris, I'd be dead anyway. That's the way I feel about her. I can't help it, even now. There she is. The same sweet smile. The same wave of the hand. Pretending to water the lawn while she waits for me. Ways to send me to mine. Hi, Chris. Open the garage door, will you? Just the way they planned. What about the car? Leave it to me. I'll make sure Dan goes to put it in the garage. Good. I'll make sure the garage door is closed. When he opens it, I'll be there waiting. How do you do, Mr. Baker? My name's Jim Darling. Jim Darling? That's right. My sister Frances is married to your next-door neighbor. Your wife, Chris, and I hatched up this surprise. Here are the keys to your new car. What? My new car? Just because you forgot your own birthday don't expect me to forget it. Happy. Happy birthday. What about the idea you had? You know where the picture producers will be running after me to make use of my talents? Oh, yes. Well, this is it. Did you see High Noon, three coins in a fountain, and the High and the Mighty? Sure. Well, all these movies had theme songs written about the picture's title. They all became hits and played a big part in the picture's success. Good for them, but where do I come in, huh? You will sing the title songs for pictures that don't have any songs as yet. That sounds like a great idea. How would this title song be for the picture, Louis Pasteur? Louis Pasteur, Louis Pasteur is a name that's highly prized. Every cow that's in the pasture now gives milk homogenized. That's the idea, all right, but Louis Pasteur was associated with pasteurized, not homogenized. I know, but this is the son of Louis Pasteur, so I brought it up to date. Tell us, these songs have to be serious. Now, here's one about the picture, Magambo. Okay. Kangaroos were jumpin' and the snakes all hissed. Every leopard spotted us this time we kissed. Baby, we were smoochin' and the rabbits yelled more. They were keepin' the score. It was down in Magambo. They were doin' the mambo to a Dixieland combo. Magambo. Those words are beautiful, Rosemary. Now, here's one that should be a smash, and it goes like this. A barefoot contessa left me singin' the blues When in the middle she went home to get her Second thought, Dennis, maybe we're just too late. Well, it could be. You see, everything in Hollywood goes in cycles, and maybe, Rosemary, this cycle is over. Well, what do you think the big trend is right now? Well, it seems to me like they're all on a western kick and all those westerns that they're making have the same story. I hadn't noticed. Oh, sure. It always starts with the handsome stranger riding into town and saying, there's something funny goin' on here and I'm gonna stay here till I find out what it is. And you know something? He always stays. You can't blame him. Did you ever get a load of that school mom? The thing that always puzzled me was the scene in the lonely farmhouse where the doctor would be up all night constantly calling for boiling water. What was he doing behind that closed door for so many hours? Well, as Dr. Christian would say, I am a country doctor. I'm behind those closed doors. I am performing of service to humanity. I get little money. I travel many miles through snow and sleep and work long hours with no sleep. I know, doctor, but what do you do with all that boiling water? I make instant coffee. Are the teenage pictures like Margie, Junior Miss, and Kiss and Tell? Dennis, I've got an idea. Why don't we do a scene from a teenage picture? I'll be the teenager. You'll be my boyfriend and Jimmy Wallington will be my father. All right. Bobby, would you give us a little teenage music? I feel so super. That must be my super date, Dennis. I'm peachy and super terrific. Let's ankle along. I'm rosy. The gang's all out in my hot rod. Oh, super ginger, creamy peachy. Who's in the car? Well, there's Bobby and Kay, George and Helen, Tony and Sue, Bill and Betty, Judy and Frankie, George and Elsie, John and Marsha, Bobby and Doddy and Gertrude, and some sailor. I'm going to meet my boyfriend. He's real, real George. What a peculiar name. Oh, hello, Dennis. Hello, Mr. Fenster-Macher. Dennis, I expect you to take good care of my rosemary. Oh, don't worry. I'll get her home before 12 o'clock, Mr. Fenster-Macher. Dennis, you're a good boy. Thanks, Mr. Fenster-Macher. You're a fine lad. You're a swell guy, Mr. Fenster-Macher. I like you, Dennis. I like you, Mr. Fenster-Macher. Hey, what am I supposed to do? Give you a dress to your father. I'm taking him to the dance. He's the one about the boy, girl, song and dance team. She gets a big chance to leave the act and to go out on her own, but she refuses. Yes, she won't leave him because they've been saving box tops together. And they need only 10 more to get a pair of three suits marked his and hers. Yes. They're sitting on a lonely, deserted park bench and suddenly a 28-piece orchestra plays the introduction for their duet. See, son, babe, in broad daylight seem crazy. I may, son, hurts keep saying. Well, Dennis, that may be your idea of love, but here's mine. Every time you come around, my heart begins to pound. Baby, when we're squeezing, weather may be freezing, but in your arms it's 90 o'clock. Every time you press my lips and in my fingertips see the stars explode and you say you're mine here. Up and down my spine here, I can feel a velvet glow. And hers and make it ours. Okay, let's put our heads and our ideas together. That's a swell idea. See, son, babe, in broad daylight seem crazy. Every time you press my lips. And I love the way you played the scene earlier in the show. You know, I can see now why Paramount has cast you in such pictures as White Christmas and Sabrina. You're very kind, Dennis, but what interests me right now is how did Dennis Day get his start? Like this, listen. Promise me if you never come I'll still promise me. This week our guest will be Corky Hale, sensational swing harpist and that great showman and comedian Ken Murray. Join us then, won't you? This is Rosemary Plunie and Dennis Day saying...