Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 December 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1935–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 725
- Genre
- theatre
LUX RADIO THEATRE The individual episodes have been broken down into several different pages: Lux Radio Theatre - Single Episodes or by season: (There are no known surviving First Season episodes) Lux Radio Theatre - Single Episodes - Second Season: 07/29/35 to 06/25/36 Lux Radio Theatre - Single Episodes - Third Season: 07/01/36 to 07/05
1955 · 71954 · 261953 · 431952 · 14
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 37 of 90Listenable · 18 of 90Rough but complete · 35 of 90
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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: OTRR_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
29 dated broadcasts across 21 years on the air, with 17 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. I'll Never Forget You · 22 Sep 1952
- 2. Adam and Evelyn · 29 Sep 1952
- 3. The Model and the Marriage Broker · 6 Oct 1952
Rope of Sand
31 May 1955 · 49 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 31 May 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Rawhide
22 Mar 1955 · 47 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 22 March 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Walls of Jericho
8 Mar 1955 · 51 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 8 March 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Shane
22 Feb 1955 · 55 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 22 February 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
War of the Worlds
8 Feb 1955 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 8 February 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Sangaree
25 Jan 1955 · 57 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 January 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Island in the Sky
11 Jan 1955 · 52 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 January 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Iron Mistress
28 Dec 1954 · 54 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 28 December 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
28 Dec 1954
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 28 Dec 1954.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 December 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1935–1955
Other series the network carried while Lux Radio Theater was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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Modern series carrying this form forward.
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