The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 30
- Genre
- sitcom
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Anderson_Family”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Anderson Family ep01 Another Woman · Date unknown
- 2. Anderson Family ep03 Cowboy Boots · Date unknown
- 3. Anderson Family ep09 Junior's Club · Date unknown
- 01
Anderson Family ep01 Another Woman
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Anderson Family ep03 Cowboy Boots
Date unknown · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Anderson Family ep09 Junior's Club
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Anderson Family ep12 Mary's Father To Visit
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Anderson Family ep14 Mary's Present
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Anderson Family ep16 New Car
Date unknown · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Anderson Family ep19 Oliver Gives A Speech
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Anderson Family ep22 Roses
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Anderson Family was on the air.
Same seasons
sitcom on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The family at home
One house, a recurring cast, and comedy made from small domestic friction. Fibber McGee, Blondie and Ozzie and Harriet built the situation comedy before television claimed it.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Anderson Family
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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