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- "Memory Lane" was a lighthearted nostalgic live broadcast where "Television's Singing Troubadour," Jimmie Jackson, took his audience on a "musical stroll down Memory Lane." The show also featured "Television's Hollywood Hostess," Anita Coleman and Moppet, J.P. Sloane, along with the Memory Lane Orchestra. Anita and Jimmie had numerous friends in the political arena and entertainment industry including Candy Candido, Donald O'Conner, Jimmy Durante, Abbott & Costello, Lash LaRue, Audie Murphy, Alan Young, Los Angeles Sherriff- Eugene (Gene) W. Biscailuz, Variety columnist Army Arched, directors' Ed Sedgwick and Frederick (Freddy) De Cordova, guitar legend Jimmy Bryant and Flying Tiger Airline's president, Bob Prescott; many of whom would regularly appear on the program. In one summer alone, the show topped Ed Sullivan over eighteen times in ratings.
- Music based format with top recording stars in the "Downtowners" band. The program was designed as a syndicated program in association with local chambers of commerce to help bring back customers to the downtown areas of cities around the country. The show was one of the first integrated television shows featuring popular radio and television star Jimmie Jackson who hosted the show as well as played the guitar and sang. The show also featured Capitol Records top recording artist Jimmy Bryant. Black Jazz violinist and recording star, "Stuffy" Smith along with Black jazz percussionist and recording star, George Jenkins rounded out the "Downtowners" sound. A highlight of the show was television's Hollywood Hostess, Anita Coleman who offered the latest Hollywood gossip and guest stars. "The Downtown show" featured custom commercial loops that incorporated each local downtown spot so that the viewer had the feeling that these top artist were broadcasting right from their very own local Downtown.
- In this episode of Jimmie Jackson's Memory Lane, Jimmie and the Memory Lane Orchestra play Western music favorites and special guest, western motion picture star, Lash LaRue drops in for a visit. Lash shares with Jimmie and the gang about his upcoming motion picture "The Vanishing Outpost" which is planned for production in 1951. Television's Hollywood Hostess, Anita Coleman, introduces the lovely Sue Hussey winner of Taladeega, Alabama's Miss Kiwanis beauty pageant and, having done so, also won a part in the next Lash LaRue film.