The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 48
- Genre
- variety
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “GoodNews”; 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
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. ep016 Guest Jack Benny · Date unknown
- 2. ep024 Guest Freddie Bartholemew · Date unknown
- 3. ep42 Guest Lionell Barrymore · Date unknown
ep016 Guest Jack Benny
Date unknown · 1h 2m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
ep024 Guest Freddie Bartholemew
Date unknown · 58 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
ep42 Guest Lionell Barrymore
Date unknown · 1h 0m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
ep49 Guest Tony Martin
Date unknown · 1h 3m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
ep68 Guest Virginia Bruce
Date unknown · 1h 1m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Guests Walter Huston and Raymond Walburn
Date unknown · 59 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Guest Alice Faye
Date unknown · 1h 0m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
ep027 Guests Clark Gable and Judy Garland
Date unknown · 1h 2m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Good News was on the air.
Same seasons
variety 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 Good News
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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