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{{Short description|American old-time radio comedy-variety program}}
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| format        = Comedy-variety
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| country       = United States
| language      = English
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| syndicates    = [[CBS]]
| television    = ''[[The Danny Kaye Show]]''
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| starring      = [[Danny Kaye]]
| announcer     = [[Ken Niles]]<br>[[Dick Joy]]
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| writer        = [[Sylvia Fine]]<br>[[Abe Burrows]]<br>Goodman Ace
| director      = Dick Mack
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| producer      = [[Goodman Ace]]
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| first_aired   = {{Start date|1945|01|06}}
| last_aired    = {{End date|1946|05|31}}
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| sponsor       = [[Pabst Brewing Company#Pabst Blue Ribbon|Pabst Blue Ribbon beer]]
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'''''The Danny Kaye Show''''' is an American [[old-time radio]] comedy-variety program starring [[Danny Kaye]]. Broadcast on the [[CBS]] radio network, it ran  from January 6, 1945 to May 31, 1946.<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book|last1=Dunning|first1=John|title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio|url=https://archive.org/details/onairencyclop00dunn|url-access=registration|date=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-19-507678-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/onairencyclop00dunn/page/190/mode/1up 190-191]|edition=Revised}}</ref>
==Format==
''The Danny Kaye Show'' featured singing, instrumental music, and various kinds of comedy sketches.<ref name="rp">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows|date=1999|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|isbn=978-0-7864-4513-4|page=91}}</ref> In ''Nobody's Fool'', Martin Gottfried wrote about the program: "Everything about it was to be top drawer, beginning with Kaye's then record salary of $16,000 a week (compared to the $100 apiece he had been paid for three minor CBS radio shows in 1940)."<ref name="nf">{{cite book|last1=Gottfried|first1=Martin|title=Nobody's Fool|date=7 June 2002|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9780743244763|pages=101–105|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1tf7ZknGxRAC&dq=%22Danny+Kaye+Show%22+%22Pabst+Blue+Ribbon+Time%22&pg=PA101|accessdate=17 May 2017|language=en}}</ref>
==Personnel==
In addition to Kaye, the cast included [[Eve Arden]] and [[Lionel Stander]] as regulars, with the supporting cast including and [[Frank Nelson (actor)|Frank Nelson]] (playing sponsor Mr. Pabst in the premiere), [[Kenny Delmar]], [[Everett Sloane]], [[Joan Edwards (radio singer)|Joan Edwards]], and [[Butterfly McQueen]]. Announcers were [[Ken Niles]] and [[Dick Joy]]. Music was under the direction of [[Harry James]], [[Lyn Murray]], David Terry, and Harry Sosnik. Dick Mack was the director.<ref name=dunningota/> The producer was [[Goodman Ace]], described by Gottfried in ''Nobody's Fool'' as "radio's premier comedy writer, who had so estimable a reputation that even though the program would be broadcast from Los Angeles, he was able to insist on running it from New York."<ref name=nf/>
A behind-the-scenes influence was Kaye's wife, [[Sylvia Fine]], a producer, composer, and lyricist in her own right. Gottfried wrote, "She demanded and won the right to approve the show's writers."<ref name=nf/> She also wrote for the program, along with Ace and [[Abe Burrows]].<ref name=dunningota/>
==See also==
*''[[The Danny Kaye Show]]'' television program
== References ==
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== External links ==
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===Logs===
*[http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Danny-Kaye-Show.html Log of episodes of ''The Danny Kaye Show'' from The Digital Deli Too]
*[http://www.otrsite.com/otrsite/logs/logd1034.htm Log of episodes of ''The Danny Kaye Show'' from Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs]
*[http://www.radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Danny+Kaye+Show Log of episodes of ''The Danny Kaye Show'' from radioGOLDINdex]
===Scripts===
===Streaming===
*[http://otrrlibrary.org/OTRRLib/Library%20Files/D%20Series/Danny%20Kaye%20Show/ Episodes of ''The Danny Kaye Show'' from Old Time Radio Researchers Group Library]
*[http://zootradio.com/Danny_Kaye_Show.php Episodes of ''The Danny Kaye Show'' from Zoot Radio]
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