The run
- Network
- Networks
- Years active
- 1930–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 39
- Genre
- comedy
Groucho off the leash: quiz, monologue and the interview turning into ambush. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
10 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 95 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 11 Nov 2025
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 18 Nov 2025
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 25 Nov 2025
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 25 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 40 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 55 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 18 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 33 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 48 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 1h 3m
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 26 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Also on Networks
Networks in 1930–1955
Other series the network carried while An Evening with Groucho 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 An Evening with Groucho
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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