Transmission
22 May
1949
You Are There
You Are There ep77 Bombardment of Fort Sumter
Network
CBS
Slot
Sunday
Running time
29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated.
Internet ArchiveYou_Are_There_OTRCondition unmeasured
Martin and Lewis
Radio
Martin and Lewis
NBC
NBC · 1940–1950
Broadcasts
72
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 72
- Genre
- comedy
Martin and Lewis were an American comedy duo, comprising singer Dean Martin (as the "straight man") and comedian Jerry Lewis (as his stooge). The pair worked together in nightclubs, on radio and television, and film from 1946 until 1956. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “MartinAndLewis_OldTimeRadio”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1953 · 21952 · 31951 · 21949 · 41948 · 1
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: MartinAndLewis_OldTimeRadio
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 14 years on the air, with 9 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1953
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. Bob Hope(Audition) · 21 Dec 1948
- 2. John Garfield · 22 May 1949
- 3. Ralph Bellamy · 5 Jul 1949
- 01
Bob Hope(Audition)
21 Dec 1948 · 38 min
- 02
John Garfield
22 May 1949 · 29 min
- 03
Ralph Bellamy
5 Jul 1949 · 28 min
- 04
Jane Russell
30 Aug 1949 · 28 min
- 05
Money Problems
14 Nov 1949 · 29 min
- 06
Bing Crosby
19 Oct 1951 · 29 min
- 07
Jane Wyman
30 Nov 1951 · 29 min
- 08
Frank Sinatra
18 Jan 1952 · 43 min
Same night on the air
22 May 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 22 May 1949.
Transmission
22 May
1949
The Damon Runyon Theatre
Damon Runyon Theatre 021 A Piece Of Pie
Network
Syndicated
Slot
Sunday
Running time
27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_Damon_Runyon_SinglesCondition unmeasured
Also on NBC
NBC in 1940–1950
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