The Right to Happiness
NBC / CBS
NBC / CBS · 1942–1942
Broadcasts
5
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1942
The run
- Network
- NBC / CBS
- Years active
- 1942–1942
- Surviving broadcasts
- 5
- Genre
- soap
The Right to Happiness was created by Irna Phillips in 1939 as a spin-off from The Guiding Light and ran until 1960 across NBC and CBS. Its central character, Carolyn Kramer, was played over the years by Eloise Kummer, Claudia Morgan and Julie Stevens. Public-domain recordings 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
2 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1942, in original transmission order.
- 1. RtoH 1942-01-28 Opens w Newspaper Venders Shouting · 28 Jan 1942
- 2. RtoH 1942-05-21 I Am The Past · 21 May 1942
- 3. RtoH - At Times Seemingly Pleasant & Friendly · Date unknown
- 01
RtoH 1942-01-28 Opens w Newspaper Venders Shouting
28 Jan 1942 · 16 min
- 02
RtoH 1942-05-21 I Am The Past
21 May 1942 · 9 min
- 03
RtoH - At Times Seemingly Pleasant & Friendly
Date unknown · 13 min
- 04
RtoH - Considering Oneself is not the way to True Contentment
Date unknown · 12 min
- 05
RtoH - There's an Infinite Tenderness
Date unknown · 13 min
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