Big Sister
Originally broadcast on CBS, 7 June 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1943–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 23
- Genre
- soap
Lorenzo Jones ran on NBC from 1937 to 1955, written by Theodore and Mathilde Ferro. It was unusual among daytime serials in playing for comedy for most of its run, following an amateur inventor whose schemes never quite worked, before turning to straight melodrama in its final years. Public-domain episodes held by the Internet Archive.
1948 · 31945 · 21944 · 21941 · 11940 · 31939 · 1
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: LorenzoJones
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
7 dated broadcasts across 10 years on the air, with 4 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
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1948
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1939, in original transmission order.
- 1. lorenzo jones what is lorenzo up to at night · 26 Oct 1939
- 2. lorenzo jones lorenzo jones collapsible ladder · 15 Jan 1940
- 3. lorenzo jones waterless washing solution · 15 Jan 1940
- 01
lorenzo jones what is lorenzo up to at night
26 Oct 1939 · 10 min
10 episdoes of lorenzo jones.comedy,soap opera
- 02
lorenzo jones lorenzo jones collapsible ladder
15 Jan 1940 · 11 min
10 episdoes of lorenzo jones.comedy,soap opera
- 03
lorenzo jones waterless washing solution
15 Jan 1940 · 11 min
10 episdoes of lorenzo jones.comedy,soap opera
- 04
LorenzoJones- Lorenzo's Collapsible Ladder
15 Jan 1940 · 11 min
The few surviving episodes of this classic comic radio soap--an unusual entry from the fabled Frank and Anne Hummert soap factory. Karl Swenson as Lorenzo Jones; Betty Garde and Lucille Wall as his wife, Belle; Joseph Julian as Sandy Matson; John Brown or Frank Behrens as Jim Barker; Mary Wickes, Grace Keddy, or Nancy Sheridan as Irma Barker. Announcers: Don Lowe or George Putnam. Writers: Theodore and Mathilde Ferro.
- 05
lorenzo jones lorenzo and belle
26 May 1941 · 12 min
10 episdoes of lorenzo jones.comedy,soap opera
- 06
lorenzo jones high school yearbook
7 Jun 1944 · 15 min
10 episdoes of lorenzo jones.comedy,soap opera
- 07
LorenzoJones- Lorenzo Reads a High School Yearbook
7 Jun 1944 · 15 min
The few surviving episodes of this classic comic radio soap--an unusual entry from the fabled Frank and Anne Hummert soap factory. Karl Swenson as Lorenzo Jones; Betty Garde and Lucille Wall as his wife, Belle; Joseph Julian as Sandy Matson; John Brown or Frank Behrens as Jim Barker; Mary Wickes, Grace Keddy, or Nancy Sheridan as Irma Barker. Announcers: Don Lowe or George Putnam. Writers: Theodore and Mathilde Ferro.
- 08
lorenzo jones lorenzo jones
10 Aug 1945 · 14 min
10 episdoes of lorenzo jones.comedy,soap opera
Same night on the air
7 Jun 1944
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 7 Jun 1944.
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
This will include a current CBS D-Day directory with some additions
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
This upload contains the complete broadcast day for NBC Radio on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The broadcast begins at 2:50 a.m. Eastern War Time and continues until 6:00 p.m. on June 7, 1944. Not only is the news coverage professional and excellent at providing a real-time look at what the American people were learning as news was breaking, it is interesting to hear so many different religious leaders offer prayers in support of the invasion, the soldiers and the country. A different time.
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
NBC Broadcast D-Day 1944-06-07 (74) 08:45 Modern Romances
7 Jun 1944 · 14 min
This upload contains the complete broadcast day for NBC Radio on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The broadcast begins at 2:50 a.m. Eastern War Time and continues until 6:00 p.m. on June 7, 1944. Not only is the news coverage professional and excellent at providing a real-time look at what the American people were learning as news was breaking, it is interesting to hear so many different religious leaders offer prayers in support of the invasion, the soldiers and the country. A different time.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1943–1945
Other series the network carried while Lorenzo Jones was on the air.
Same seasons
soap on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The daytime serial
Fifteen minutes a day, the same family for years, and a story that never quite resolves. Ma Perkins and Stella Dallas invented serialised character audio.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Lorenzo Jones
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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