The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1939–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 98
- Genre
- variety
(44 Episodes 'Avalon Time' plus 15 'Red Skelton Radio Show' Eps = 59 Episodes) 'Avalon Time,' Avalon Cigarettes sponsored, was Red (for his hair colour) Skelton's first paid gig. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “AvalonTimeRedSkelton”; 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
6 dated broadcasts across 13 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 1939, in original transmission order.
- 1. AT 1939-01-07 #001 Red's 1st Broadcast · 7 Jan 1939
- 2. AT 1939-04-15 #015 Red Discovers America - Engineer's Mistake · 15 Apr 1939
- 3. AT 1939-06-24 #025 Policeman's Ball · 24 Jun 1939
AT 1939-01-07 #001 Red's 1st Broadcast
7 Jan 1939 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 7 January 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
AT 1939-04-15 #015 Red Discovers America - Engineer's Mistake
15 Apr 1939 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 15 April 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
AT 1939-06-24 #025 Policeman's Ball
24 Jun 1939 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 24 June 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
AT 1939-09-02 #035 Killer Hitchhikers
2 Sep 1939 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 2 September 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
AT 1939-11-08 #045 Trouble With the Landlady
8 Nov 1939 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 8 November 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
RS 1948-11-12 A GI Joe's Memories
12 Nov 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 12 November 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
RS Big Business Venture (Long)
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Avalon Time 390422 Ep016 Robin Hood
Date unknown · 31 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1939–1951
Other series the network carried while Avalon Time was on the air.
Same seasons
variety 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 Avalon Time
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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