Escape
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1941–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 1642
- Genre
- soap
Claudia , which is perhaps better known as Claudia and David , was an old time radio show based on a series of short stories written by Rose Franken and William Brown Meloney, which appeared in Redbook magazine. The program was a soap opera centered on newlyweds David and Claudia Naughton.
1948 · 11947 · 101941 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 45 of 45
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Claudia_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
5 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 6 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1941
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1948
1949
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1941, in original transmission order.
- 1. Audition · 28 Sep 1941
- 2. ep006 Its a Lock · 6 Oct 1947
- 3. Claudia 1947-10-15 (13) Life with Major · 15 Oct 1947
- 01
Audition
28 Sep 1941 · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
ep006 Its a Lock
6 Oct 1947 · 14 min
Broadcast 6 October 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
Claudia 1947-10-15 (13) Life with Major
15 Oct 1947 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 15 October 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
ep019 The Beginning of Our Home
23 Oct 1947 · 14 min
Broadcast 23 October 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
%2326 Driving Downtown
3 Nov 1947 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 3 November 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
The Kittens
12 Nov 1947 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Claudia_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
Claudia 1947-11-20 (39) A Night at the Opera
20 Nov 1947 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 20 November 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
We're Just Looking
1 Dec 1947 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
15 Oct 1947
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 15 Oct 1947.
Boston Blackie
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1941–1949
Other series the network carried while Claudia was on the air.
Same seasons
soap 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 Claudia
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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