Transmission
17 October
1948
The Author Meets the Critics
The Wild Country
Network
Mutual
Slot
Sunday
Running time
29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 17 October 1948.
Internet ArchiveThe-Author-Meets-the-CriticsListenable · 64 kbps
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
Radio
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
NBC
NBC · 1937–1966
Broadcasts
303
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1937
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1937–1966
- Surviving broadcasts
- 303
- Genre
- variety
The Chase and Sanborn Hour: ventriloquist Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. On NBC from May 1937, on CBS from October 1949, ending 1 July 1956. The 1964–66 broadcasts held here are the Chase and Sanborn anniversary specials, made after the weekly series had finished.
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Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 28 of 45Rough but complete · 17 of 45
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: edgar-bergen-1937-12-12-32-guest-mae-west
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 30 years on the air, with 19 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1937, in original transmission order.
- 1. Edgar Bergen 1937-05-09 (1) Guest - Ann Harding & Rodgers & Hart · 9 May 1937
- 2. Edgar Bergen 1937-08-08 (14) Guest - Nelson Eddy · 8 Aug 1937
- 3. C&S Hour 1938-10-30 Don Ameche (EB&CM) WC Fields, Judy Canova, Dorothy Lamour, Nelson Eddy · 30 Oct 1938
- 01
Edgar Bergen 1937-05-09 (1) Guest - Ann Harding & Rodgers & Hart
9 May 1937 · 59 min
- 02
Edgar Bergen 1937-08-08 (14) Guest - Nelson Eddy
8 Aug 1937 · 59 min
- 03
C&S Hour 1938-10-30 Don Ameche (EB&CM) WC Fields, Judy Canova, Dorothy Lamour, Nelson Eddy
30 Oct 1938 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 October 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
- 04
Edgar Bergen 1939-11-12 (132) Guest - Jean Arthur
12 Nov 1939 · 59 min
- 05
Edgar Bergen 1942-02-08 (232) Guest - Ida Lupino, Abbott & Costello
8 Feb 1942 · 29 min
- 06
Edgar Bergen 1943-04-25 (286) Guest - Irene Dunn
25 Apr 1943 · 29 min
- 07
Edgar Bergen 1944-03-26 (321) Guest - W.C. Fields, Jane Powell
26 Mar 1944 · 29 min
- 08
Edgar Bergen 1945-02-25 (357) Guest - Gene Tierney
25 Feb 1945 · 29 min
Same night on the air
17 Oct 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 17 Oct 1948.
Transmission
17 October
1948
Box 13
Box 13 48-10-17 ep09 A Book of Poems
Network
Mutual
Slot
Sunday
Running time
26 min
Broadcast on Mutual.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_Box_13_SinglesCondition unmeasured
Transmission
17 October
1948
The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show
Phil Harris 48-10-17 (073) Phyllis' Boyfriend
Network
NBC
Slot
Sunday
Running time
29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_Harris_Faye_SinglesCondition unmeasured
Also on NBC
NBC in 1937–1966
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