The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1928–2003
- Surviving broadcasts
- 730
- Genre
- comedy
This upload contains 336 episodes of the classic Old Time Radio show, Amos and Andy, starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. One of radio's longest running programs, the show aired from 1928-1943 as a 15-minute daily serial, and then as a 30-minute more traditional sitcom from 1943-1955.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
12 dated broadcasts across 76 years on the air, with 69 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 1928, in original transmission order.
- 1. Amos n Andy 280717 Is Everyone In Your Family As Dumb As You Is · 17 Jul 1928
- 2. A&A 1929-05-23 #363 Earl Dixon Has Bought Kingfish (aka Kingfish Helps Earl Compete for Taxi Business) · 23 May 1929
- 3. A&A 1929-07-02 #398 Andy's Law Book (Getting Ready For Court) · 2 Jul 1929
- 01
Amos n Andy 280717 Is Everyone In Your Family As Dumb As You Is
17 Jul 1928 · 6 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
A&A 1929-05-23 #363 Earl Dixon Has Bought Kingfish (aka Kingfish Helps Earl Compete for Taxi Business)
23 May 1929 · 8 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “a-a-1948-11-14-183-tourist-sightseeing-agency-aka-ny-sightseeing-agency-aka-andy”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
A&A 1929-07-02 #398 Andy's Law Book (Getting Ready For Court)
2 Jul 1929 · 7 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “a-a-1948-11-14-183-tourist-sightseeing-agency-aka-ny-sightseeing-agency-aka-andy”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Courtroom Catastrophe
22 Oct 1943 · 25 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
A&A 1944-01-14 #015 (Adolph Monju) Violets & Orchids
14 Jan 1944 · 25 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “a-a-1948-11-14-183-tourist-sightseeing-agency-aka-ny-sightseeing-agency-aka-andy”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
A&A 1944-05-05 #031 (AFRS) Electric Clock Caper
5 May 1944 · 27 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “a-a-1948-11-14-183-tourist-sightseeing-agency-aka-ny-sightseeing-agency-aka-andy”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
aa441124 Spot Removal Formula
24 Nov 1944 · 58 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
A Mean Valentine
16 Feb 1945 · 26 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1928–2003
Other series the network carried while Amos 'n' Andy 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 Amos 'n' Andy
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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