The Strange Dr. Weird
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 13 February 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC Blue
- Years active
- 1944–1947
- Surviving broadcasts
- 51
- Genre
- comedy
(51 Episodes) "The Alan Young Show" was a 30 minute situation comedy that ran from 1944 thru 1949. In 1944, Canadian actor Alan Young was hired away from the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) radio, by NBC Radio, as a summer replacement for "The Eddie Cantor Show.' Young switched to ABC in late '44, (October 03 1944 - June 28 1946), eventually returning to NBC in the fall of '46 Sept. 20, 1946-July 05, 1949) to complete "The Alan Young Show" program run. Alan Young is probably best remembered for his 1961-1966 Television role, playing Wilbur Post, second fiddle to a talking horse named "Mr. Ed." ** I originally followed the dates from Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Site, (www.otrsite. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “AlanYoungShow_259”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1947 · 31946 · 31945 · 51944 · 1
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: AlanYoungShow_259
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1947
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. AYS 1944-10-24 #017 (ABC 004) (AFRS) Alan Buys a Water Heater · 24 Oct 1944
- 2. AYS 1945-01-16 #029 (ABC 016) Alan Wants To Hire Fred Waring (aka Guest Fred Waring) · 16 Jan 1945
- 3. AYS 1945-02-13 #033 (ABC 020) Raising & Selling Rabbits · 13 Feb 1945
- 01
AYS 1944-10-24 #017 (ABC 004) (AFRS) Alan Buys a Water Heater
24 Oct 1944 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 24 October 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
AYS 1945-01-16 #029 (ABC 016) Alan Wants To Hire Fred Waring (aka Guest Fred Waring)
16 Jan 1945 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 16 January 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
AYS 1945-02-13 #033 (ABC 020) Raising & Selling Rabbits
13 Feb 1945 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 13 February 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
AYS 1945-03-20 #038 (ABC 025) Goldfish
20 Mar 1945 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 20 March 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
AYS 1945-08-21 #060 (ABC 047) Jury Duty
21 Aug 1945 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 21 August 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
AYS 1945-11-06 #071 (ABC 058) Alan Wills Five Dollars
6 Nov 1945 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 6 November 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
AYS 1946-09-20 #105 (NBC 001) Landscaping
20 Sep 1946 · 36 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 20 September 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
AYS 1946-10-25 #110 (NBC 006) Alan's Movie Career (aka Alan, The Movie Star)
25 Oct 1946 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 25 October 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
13 Feb 1945
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 13 Feb 1945.
The Bob Hope Program
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC Blue
NBC Blue in 1944–1947
Other series the network carried while Alan Young Show was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Alan Young Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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