NBC / CBS
NBC / CBS · 1947–1949
Broadcasts
28
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1947
The run
Ford Theater began on NBC in October 1947 with an hour-long adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, moving to CBS in 1948 under producer Fletcher Markle. The hour format let it stage novels and plays at close to full length, with casts including Burgess Meredith and Marlene Dietrich. Recordings here are public domain.
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
6 dated broadcasts across 3 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
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
5 Oct 1947 · 58 min
2 Nov 1947 · 59 min
16 Nov 1947 · 1h 1m
21 Dec 1947 · 59 min
28 Dec 1947 · 58 min
4 Jan 1948 · 1h 0m
11 Jan 1948 · 59 min
13 Jan 1948 · 1h 5m
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 21 Dec 1947.
21 December
1947
Mutual
Sunday
25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 21 December 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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21 December
1947
CBS
Sunday
28 min
Broadcast 21 December 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
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