Shorty Bell
Broadcast · 1948 · Seasonal
CBS
CBS · 1948–1948
Broadcasts
4
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1948
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1948–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 4
- Genre
- drama
Shorty Bell ran on CBS in 1948 with Mickey Rooney as an eager cub newspaper reporter, produced and directed by William Spier of Suspense and scored by Bernard Herrmann. Expensively mounted but poorly rated, it left the air within months, and only a handful of transfers survive — the March 1948 audition record among them. Public-domain transfers held by the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Also on CBS
CBS in 1948–1948
Other series the network carried while Shorty Bell was on the air.
Same seasons
drama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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