The run
- Network
- NBC Blue
- Years active
- 1944–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 128
- Genre
- variety
(65 Episodes) CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD 63 Charlotte Greenwood Variety Shows 02 Charlotte Greenwood Programs (01 Lux Radio; 01 Hallmark) OTR * def gp ddh. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “CharlotteGreenwood64Eps”; 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 3 years on the air, with 1 year 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 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. CGP 1944-08-08 #009 Don't travel During War (aka Train Ride to NY) · 8 Aug 1944
- 2. CGS 1944-12-31 #012 Apt Mix-Up (aka Mistaken Identity) · 31 Dec 1944
- 3. CGS 1945-03-18 #023 Barbara interested in Culture (aka Boy Genius Learns Lesson) · 18 Mar 1945
CGP 1944-08-08 #009 Don't travel During War (aka Train Ride to NY)
8 Aug 1944 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 8 August 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CGS 1944-12-31 #012 Apt Mix-Up (aka Mistaken Identity)
31 Dec 1944 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 31 December 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CGS 1945-03-18 #023 Barbara interested in Culture (aka Boy Genius Learns Lesson)
18 Mar 1945 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 18 March 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CGS 1945-06-17 #035 Hometown Pilot Missing
17 Jun 1945 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 17 June 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CGS 1945-09-02 #046 Jack & Missing $5.00
2 Sep 1945 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 2 September 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CGS 1945-11-25 #058 Big Football Game
25 Nov 1945 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 25 November 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Charlotte Greenwood 441129 Shoplifting Suspects
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Charlotte Greenwood 450708 Diamond Earrings
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC Blue
NBC Blue in 1944–1946
Other series the network carried while Charlotte Greenwood 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 Charlotte Greenwood
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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