Spike Jones
NBC / CBS
NBC / CBS · 1945–1952
Broadcasts
54
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1945
The run
- Network
- NBC / CBS
- Years active
- 1945–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 54
- Genre
- variety
Spike Jones and his City Slickers broadcast for Chase and Sanborn, Coca-Cola's Spotlight Revue and other sponsors through the 1940s and early 1950s, performing the destructive novelty arrangements that made the band famous. These airchecks stream from the Internet Archive.
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
14 dated broadcasts across 82 years on the air, with 80 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 29 Jul 2025
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 5 Aug 2025
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 12 Aug 2025
- 01
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 54 min
- 02
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 17 min
- 03
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 32 min
- 04
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 47 min
- 05
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 2m
- 06
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 25 min
- 07
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 40 min
- 08
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 55 min
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NBC / CBS in 1945–1952
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