The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1932–1932
- Surviving broadcasts
- 60
- Genre
- comedy
(60 Episodes) Eb & Zeb (1932-1933) was similar to the format of the Lum & Abner comedy show, this one about two old codgers who run a General Store in Corn Center. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “EbZeb”; 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
1 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1932, in original transmission order.
- 1. E&Z 1932-05-09 (PILOT) Taking Inventory · 9 May 1932
- 2. E&Z 1932-05-17 #005 Millionaire Is Coming · 17 May 1932
- 3. E&Z 1933 #115 Maj. Barnes Makes 50% For Zeb Overnight · Date unknown
- 01
E&Z 1932-05-09 (PILOT) Taking Inventory
9 May 1932 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 May 1932. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
E&Z 1932-05-17 #005 Millionaire Is Coming
17 May 1932 · 13 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 17 May 1932. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
E&Z 1933 #115 Maj. Barnes Makes 50% For Zeb Overnight
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
E&Z 1933 #125 Eb & Zeb Fly
Date unknown · 6 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
E&Z 1933
Date unknown · 7 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
E&Z 1933
Date unknown · 8 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
E&Z 1933
Date unknown · 8 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
E&Z 1933 #114 Maj Barnes Offers To Invest $100 For Zeb
Date unknown · 10 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1932–1932
Other series the network carried while Eb & Zeb 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 Eb & Zeb
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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