Duffy's Tavern, an American radio situation comedy (CBS,
1941-1942; NBC-Blue Network, 1942-1944; NBC, 1944-1952), often featured
top-name stage and film guest stars but always hooked those around the
misadventures, get-rich-quick-scheming, and romantic missteps of the title
establishment's malaprop-prone, metaphor-mixing manager, Archie, played by the
writer/actor who created the show, Ed Gardner.