The run
This upload contains 287 episodes of the Old Time Radio comedy, Easy Aces, starring Goodman and Jane Ace. The show aired as a 15-minute serial from 1930-1945. The dates, episode numbers and titles are based on the best available information but any corrections are welcome. Initial upload: 4/21/2020 (285 episodes) 1st update: 10/5/2020 (2 episodes - 8/3/1937, 8/4/1937) Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available sources on the Internet, and my goal has been to put together a collection of every available episode where possible. I will add to these collections if I discover new episodes or if any new episodes become available. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “easy-aces-45-xx-xx-749-jane-is-serving-on-jury-duty”; 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
10 dated broadcasts across 12 years on the air, with 8 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1937, in original transmission order.
3 Aug 1937 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
17 Apr 1941 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
13 May 1941 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
21 Jan 1943 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 21 January 1943. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
21 Jul 1943 · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
6 Jan 1948 · 13 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 January 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
21 Feb 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 21 February 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
6 Mar 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 March 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Mar 1948.
6 Mar 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Escape_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 March 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS / NBC Blue
Other series the network carried while Easy Aces was on the air.
Same seasons
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
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
Modern series carrying this form forward.
If you liked this
Chosen by the same editors.
