NBC
NBC · 1944–1945
Broadcasts
30
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1944
The run
The Old Gold Comedy Theater aired over NBC for one season, from October 29, 1944 to June 10, 1945. The Lennen and Mitchell ad agency wanted to produce a comedy series for Old Gold cigarettes, a brand of the Lorillard Tobacco Company. The show was patterned after the successful format used by the Lux Radio Theatre and Cecil B. DeMille. Preston Sturges, an up and coming director, was originally tapped to host the show, but was already committed elsewhere, and so suggested Harold Lloyd, a silent film star, with whom he had worked in the past. As this was his first radio program, Lloyd worked for many months to…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
7 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
29 Oct 1944 · 29 min
Broadcast 29 October 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
19 Nov 1944 · 30 min
Broadcast 19 November 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
3 Dec 1944 · 30 min
Broadcast 3 December 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
24 Dec 1944 · 29 min
Broadcast 24 December 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
7 Jan 1945 · 29 min
Broadcast 7 January 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
21 Jan 1945 · 30 min
Broadcast 21 January 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
4 Feb 1945 · 30 min
Broadcast 4 February 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
18 Feb 1945 · 30 min
Broadcast 18 February 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 4 Mar 1945.
4 March
1945
Mutual
Sunday
29 min
Broadcast 4 March 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_Nick_Carter_Master_Detective_SinglesClean transfer · 128 kbps
4 March
1945
NBC Blue
Sunday
29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated.
Internet ArchiveCharlotteGreenwood64EpsCondition unmeasured
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