High Adventure
Broadcast 4 December 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1946–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 168
- 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…
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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_Day_in_the_Life_of_Dennis_Day_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 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.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
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 1947-01-22 (16) Dennis Is Mistaken for a Missing Heir (First Song - McNamara's Band) · 22 Jan 1947
- 3. Dennis Day Show 1947-03-26 (25) The Anderson's Want to Buy a New House · 26 Mar 1947
- 01
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.
- 02
Dennis Day Show 1947-01-22 (16) Dennis Is Mistaken for a Missing Heir (First Song - McNamara's Band)
22 Jan 1947 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 22 January 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Dennis Day Show 1947-03-26 (25) The Anderson's Want to Buy a New House
26 Mar 1947 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 26 March 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
A Day in the Life of Dennis Day Dennis Inherits a Fortune (AFRS)
10 Sep 1947 · 26 min
Broadcast 10 September 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
A Day in the Life of Dennis Day Dennis Helps Mr. Willoughby Get a Bank Loan
10 Dec 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 10 December 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
Dennis Day Show 1948-03-17 (68) Dennis Enters Mr Anderson in a Baby Picture Contest
17 Mar 1948 · 31 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 17 March 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
A Day in the Life of Dennis Day Dennis Bets on a Horse
23 Jun 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast 23 June 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 08
Dennis Tries to Steal Football Plays
9 Oct 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Day_in_the_Life_of_Dennis_Day_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
4 Dec 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 4 Dec 1948.
Archie Andrews
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 4 December 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Michael Shayne
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1946–1955
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
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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