The run
- Network
- AFRS
- Years active
- 1943–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 89
- Genre
- comedy
G.I. Journal was an Armed Forces Radio Service comedy-variety series framed as a soldiers' newspaper, with a rotating 'editor' each week. Produced in Hollywood during the Second World War for overseas broadcast only, it survives from AFRS transcription discs in the public domain.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
4 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air, with 1 year 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 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. GI Journal Bob Hope Betty Grab · 29 Apr 1944
- 2. Bob Hope Betty Grab · 29 Apr 1944
- 3. GI Journal Ed Sullivan Milton · 15 Oct 1944
- 01
GI Journal Bob Hope Betty Grab
29 Apr 1944 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “G.i.Journal-10Episodes”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
Bob Hope Betty Grab
29 Apr 1944 · 33 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
- 03
GI Journal Ed Sullivan Milton
15 Oct 1944 · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “G.i.Journal-10Episodes”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Ed Sullivan Milton
15 Oct 1944 · 22 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
- 05
GI Journal Orson Welles Conne
15 Dec 1944 · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “G.i.Journal-10Episodes”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
Orson Welles Conne
15 Dec 1944 · 23 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
- 07
GI Journal Bob Hope Dorothy La
22 Dec 1944 · 23 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “G.i.Journal-10Episodes”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
Bob Hope Dorothy La
22 Dec 1944 · 17 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
Also on AFRS
AFRS in 1943–1945
Other series the network carried while G.I. Journal 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 G.I. Journal
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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