The Happy Gang
CBC
CBC · 1937–1959
Broadcasts
8
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1937
The run
- Network
- CBC
- Years active
- 1937–1959
- Surviving broadcasts
- 8
- Genre
- variety
The Happy Gang began on CBC in June 1937 and ran until 1959, broadcast at lunchtime from Toronto with Bert Pearl at the piano, Blain Mathe on violin and Kathleen Stokes at the organ. Surviving transfers come from listener and station copies held by 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
3 dated broadcasts across 90 years on the air, with 89 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Signal at Midnight · 16 Jun 2026
- 2. The Last Train Out · 23 Jun 2026
- 3. Night Broadcast · 30 Jun 2026
- 01
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 50 min
- 02
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 5m
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
- 03
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 28 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
- 04
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 43 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
- 05
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 58 min
- 06
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 21 min
The one everybody argues about.
- 07
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 36 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
- 08
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 51 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Also on CBC
CBC in 1937–1959
Other series the network carried while The Happy Gang was on the air.
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variety on the air then
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