30 minute comedy sitcom
My Friend Irma, created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard, is a top-rated, long-run radio situation comedy that spawned a media franchise. It was so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated to films, television, a comic strip and a comic book. Marie Wilson portrayed the title character, Irma Peterson, on radio, in two films and the television series. The radio series was broadcast on the Columbia network from April 11, 1947 to August 23, 1954.
Dependable, level-headed Jane Stacy (Cathy Lewis—and Joan Banks during Lewis' illness in early 1949]) began each weekly radio program by narrating a misadventure of her innocent, bewildered roommate, Irma, a scatterbrained stenographer from Minnesota. The two central characters were in their mid-twenties. Irma had her 25th birthday in one episode; she was born on May 5. After the two met in the first episode, they lived together in an apartment rented from their Irish landlady, Mrs. O'Reilly (Jane Morgan, Gloria Gordon).
Irma's boyfriend Al (John Brown) was a deadbeat, barely on the right side of the law, who had not held a job in years. Only someone like Irma could love Al, whose nickname for Irma was "Chicken". Al had many crazy get-rich-quick schemes, which never worked. Al planned to marry Irma at some future date so she could support him. Professor Kropotkin (Hans Conried), the Russian violinist at the Princess Burlesque theater, lived upstairs. He greeted Jane and Irma with remarks like, "My two little bunnies with one being an Easter bunny and the other being Bugs Bunny." The Professor insulted Mrs. O'Reilly, complained about his room, and reluctantly became O'Reilly's love interest in an effort to make her forget his back rent. In 1953, Conried dropped from the cast and was replaced by Kenny Delmar as his cousin, Maestro Wanderkin.
Irma worked for the lawyer, Mr. Clyde (Alan Reed). She had such an odd filing system that once when Clyde fired her, he had to hire her back again because he couldn't find anything. Useless at dictation, Irma mangled whatever Clyde dictated. Asked how long she had been with Clyde, Irma said, "When I first went to work with him he had curly black hair, then it got grey, and now it's snow white. I guess I've been with him about six months."
Irma became less bright and more scatterbrained as the program evolved. She also developed a tendency to whine or cry whenever something went wrong, which was at least once every show. Jane had a romantic inclination for her boss, millionaire Richard Rhinelander III (Leif Erickson). Another actor in the show was Bea Benaderet.
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Episode List
My_Friend_Irma_470418 Irma Gives Rent Mone.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_470516 Jane and Irma Lose T.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_470721 Piano Lessons for Ju.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_471201 The Reward.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_471208 The Eyes Have It.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_471215 Dancing Fools.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_471222 Christmas Party.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_471222 Double Surprise.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480112 The Lucky Couple Con.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480216 The Professor's Conc.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480223 It's All Relative.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480301 Fortunes Raised.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480308 Doubles Troubles.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480315 Buy or Sell.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480322 Election Connection.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480329 The Big Secret.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480405 Irma's Inheritance.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480419 Dinner Date.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480426 Manhattan Magazine.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480503 Acute Love Sickness.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480510 Bon Voyage.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_480630 Irma and Jane See a .mp3
My_Friend_Irma_481220 Irma's Christmas Par.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_490411 Piano Lessons for Ir.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_490425 Irma is Fired.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_50 Dollars for an Accident.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_520113 Cub Scout Speech.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_520120 The Burgler.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_520127 Psychological Tests.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_520203 NewspaperColumn.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_520217 Jane Quits Her Job.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_520224 Lost Friendship Ring.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Al Goes to a Psychiatrist.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Al is Selling Youth Restore.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Arrested Canary.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Birthday Date with an Older.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Fake Fur Coat, The.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_First Show.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Irma and Astrology.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Irma Buys an Air Conditione.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Irma Improves Her Mind for .mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Irma Takes a Cooking Course.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Irma Wins a $2000 Trip to E.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Irma's Boss Buys a Race Hor.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Irma's Brother, A Lecturer .mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Irma's New Fur Coat.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Mr Martin's Beating His Wif.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Night School Homework.mp3
My_Friend_Irma_The Martins' Dog and a New .mp3
My_Friend_Irma_Trip to Washington DC.mp3
