The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1946–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 145
- Genre
- comedy
Ay by Patrick Andre Born Eugene Patrick McNulty, Dennis Day would get his start in 1939 on the Jack Benny Program . Day replaced the show’s previous tenor, Kenny Baker, who left for The Fred Allen Show . At first, Day was mainly a singer with few lines and a short studio contract. But his character as an Irish kid with a head full of air quickly developed and became popular with listeners. While Day maintained his role on Benny’s program, A Day in the Life of Dennis Day was developed. In April of 1946 an audition episode of a situation-comedy featuring Day was created and Colgate-Palmolive signed on as…
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
11 dated broadcasts across 10 years on the air, with 5 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 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day Masquerade Ball (Audition) · 18 Apr 1946
- 2. Dennis Day Show 1947-02-12 (19) Dennis Becomes Irresistible to Women · 12 Feb 1947
- 3. Dennis Day Show 1947-04-16 (28) Dennis Goes to a Marriage Counselor · 16 Apr 1947
A Day in the Life of Dennis Day Masquerade Ball (Audition)
18 Apr 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 18 April 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Dennis Day Show 1947-02-12 (19) Dennis Becomes Irresistible to Women
12 Feb 1947 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 12 February 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Dennis Day Show 1947-04-16 (28) Dennis Goes to a Marriage Counselor
16 Apr 1947 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 16 April 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Dennis Day Show 1947-10-15 (46) Mrs Anderson Opens a Dress Shop
15 Oct 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 15 October 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
A Day in the Life of Dennis Day Dennis Gets a Radio Show
28 Jan 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast 28 January 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Dennis Day Show 1948-06-16 (81) Bill Calhoun, an Old Shipmate, Visits
16 Jun 1948 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 16 June 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Dennis Day Show 1948-10-16 (91) Dennis Sells Mrs Anderson Some Worthless Oil Property
16 Oct 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 16 October 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
A Day in the Life of Dennis Day Dennis's Invitation is Cancelled
15 Jan 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 15 January 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1946–1950
Other series the network carried while Day In The Life Of Dennis Day was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy 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 Day In The Life Of Dennis Day
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