The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1956–1957
- Surviving broadcasts
- 112
- Genre
- theatre
CBS Radio Workshop was a revival of the Columbia Workshop of the late thirties. All 86 episodes survive today. The series aired from 27 Jan 1956 until 22 Sep 1957, of course on CBS. The original idea for the show came from Irving Reis back in the thirties.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
12 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1956, in original transmission order.
- 1. ep01 Brave New World Part 1 · 27 Jan 1956
- 2. ep07 Report on E.S.P · 9 Mar 1956
- 3. Living Portrait - William Zeckendorf, Tycoon · 20 Apr 1956
- 01
ep01 Brave New World Part 1
27 Jan 1956 · 29 min
Broadcast 27 January 1956. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
ep07 Report on E.S.P
9 Mar 1956 · 29 min
Broadcast 9 March 1956. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
Living Portrait - William Zeckendorf, Tycoon
20 Apr 1956 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_CBS_Radio_Workshop_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
ep18 The Little Prince
25 May 1956 · 30 min
Broadcast 25 May 1956. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
ep24 Portrait of Paris
6 Jul 1956 · 29 min
Broadcast 6 July 1956. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
ep30 Colloquy number 2 A Dissertation on Love
17 Aug 1956 · 30 min
Broadcast 17 August 1956. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
Roughing It
5 Oct 1956 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_CBS_Radio_Workshop_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
ep41 Colloquy number 4 The Joe Miller Joke Book
4 Nov 1956 · 23 min
Broadcast 4 November 1956. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1956–1957
Other series the network carried while CBS Radio Workshop was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of CBS Radio Workshop
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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