Life with Luigi
CBS
CBS · 1948–1952
Broadcasts
138
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1948
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1948–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 138
- Genre
- sitcom
J. Carrol Naish as an Italian immigrant writing home to Mama — a huge CBS hit whose warmth and caricature both belong to their moment. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
33 dated broadcasts across 79 years on the air, with 75 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. Signal at Midnight · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. The Last Train Out · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. Night Broadcast · 3 Dec 2024
- 01
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 36 min
- 02
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 51 min
- 03
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 14 min
- 04
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 29 min
- 05
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 44 min
- 06
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 59 min
- 07
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 22 min
- 08
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 37 min
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