The run
- Network
- NBC Blue
- Years active
- 1937–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 40
- Genre
- soap
(40 Episodes) "Betty & Bob" Old Time Radio Soap Opera **SPONSORS: Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, Bisquick ** THEME SONG: “Salute d'Amour" By 1932, the "daytime female serial dramas" and the "light, homey, or love interest dramas" were starting to become more and more popular. NBC-Blue introduced ROMANCE, and SHEER ROMANCE, with Betty & Bob. "Betty and Bob" began at NBC Blue on October 10, 1932 (with General Mills), the first show to be produced by the parents of soap opera, Frank Hummert and the then Anne Ashenhurst (they would marry in 1935 to become the King & Queen of Soaps team). With an early afternoon (1:45pm) serial time slot, the show was the first network daytimer to contain all the classic soapy themes in the tale of "poor-but-pure" Betty Drake and her once "wealthy-but-now-disinherited" husband Bob. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “BettyBob”; 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
5 dated broadcasts across 12 years on the air, with 10 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 1937, in original transmission order.
- 1. B&B 1937-01-22 3 eps Bob Cracks Under Job Stresses · 22 Jan 1937
- 2. B&B 1947-06-18 #004 Anita Rusack Escapes from her Father · 18 Jun 1947
- 3. B&B 1947-06-24 #007 Ex-Police Chief Henderson Visits · 24 Jun 1947
B&B 1937-01-22 3 eps Bob Cracks Under Job Stresses
22 Jan 1937 · 1h 13m
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 22 January 1937. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
B&B 1947-06-18 #004 Anita Rusack Escapes from her Father
18 Jun 1947 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 18 June 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
B&B 1947-06-24 #007 Ex-Police Chief Henderson Visits
24 Jun 1947 · 13 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 24 June 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
B&B 1947-06-30 #011 Bob is Returning to Monroe to Fight
30 Jun 1947 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 30 June 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
B&B 1947-07-03 #014 Henderson Has News About City Corruption
3 Jul 1947 · 16 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 3 July 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
B&B 1947-11-25 #112 Bob Takes Evelyn to Dinner
25 Nov 1947 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 25 November 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
B&B 1947-11-28 #115 Evelyn Decides not to Marry Sam
28 Nov 1947 · 19 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 28 November 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
B&B 1947-12-04 #119 Evelyn Encounters Bob at Office
4 Dec 1947 · 13 min
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 4 December 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
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