Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1929–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 323
- 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.
1955 · 81954 · 331953 · 4
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 27 of 45Rough but complete · 18 of 45
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: a-a-1948-11-14-183-tourist-sightseeing-agency-aka-ny-sightseeing-agency-aka-andy
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
16 dated broadcasts across 27 years on the air, with 24 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1953, in original transmission order.
- 1. A&A #362 Loan Business · 29 Nov 1953
- 2. A&A #363 Cleaning 32 Typewriters · 6 Dec 1953
- 3. A&A #364 Kingfish, the Baby Doctor · 13 Dec 1953
A&A Kingfish Needs Money for Lodge Picnic
22 Jul 1955 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 22 July 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
A&A Kingfish's Day at Coney Island
11 Jul 1955 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 July 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
A&A #419 Kingfish Gets a Job in a Flower Shop
1 May 1955 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 May 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
A&A #413 Kingfish's Mother In Law Kicks Him Out
20 Mar 1955 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 March 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
A&A #412 Kingfish & Sapphire Both Rent Cottage Out
13 Mar 1955 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 13 March 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
A&A #409 Romeo & Juliet
20 Feb 1955 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 February 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
A&A #406 Mrs Gunther's Pocketbook Found
30 Jan 1955 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 30 January 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
A&A #403 Wealthy Girl
9 Jan 1955 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 9 January 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
21 Mar 1954
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 21 Mar 1954.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 21 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1929–1955
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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