The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 39
- Genre
- mystery
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT Can You Imagine That is a show that features strange and surprising stories from newspaper columns from accross the country. The stories are presented as a combination of docudrama sketches combined with vignettes about odd news items and historical oddities. From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes" Section below for more information on the OTRR. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Can_You_Imagine_That_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
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. Aunt Mary's New Tooth · Date unknown
- 2. Bits of Bread (aka Napkins) · Date unknown
- 3. Year Old Quarrel · Date unknown
- 01
Aunt Mary's New Tooth
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Bits of Bread (aka Napkins)
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Year Old Quarrel
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Ostracize
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Chimp Language
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Explosion Heard Three Thousands Miles Away
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Black Cats
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Angel of Death
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Can You Imagine That was on the air.
Same seasons
mystery on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The lesson on the air
Radio built as a classroom — a curious question, an expert, and an explanation pitched at anyone. Adventures in Research and the university theatres did teaching as entertainment.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Can You Imagine That
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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