Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
← The Handover
1948–1953 on radio · CBS
Life with Luigi
A Chicago immigrant comedy that went to television and lasted five months.
Luigi was enormous on radio and a failure on television, cancelled within months, and the reason is instructive: the dialect comedy that audiences accepted when they could not see it became visibly uncomfortable when they could. Italian-American groups had objected from the start. It is the clearest case on this shelf of a property that television did not merely fail to improve but actively exposed.
- On radio
- Radio from 21 September 1948
- On television
- Television from 22 September 1952
- The overlap
- Both versions ran until 1953
50 recordings · Chicago
CBS network broadcasts, 1948–1953, held by the Internet Archive, beginning with the audition. Public domain (US network broadcast, copyright not renewed); no Creative Commons or non-commercial terms apply.
19483
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
194913
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
195013
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
195111
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19528
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19531
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Undated recordings1
Life with Luigi, CBS. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.