Escape
Escape 48-03-06 -030- The Grove Of Ashtaroth -national broadcast, different production
6 Mar 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Escape_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1947–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 71
- Genre
- comedy
(71 Episodes) (Missing Only: Meeks 1948-05-29 #038 Home Sweet Home) "Meet the Meeks" was an 11 am, Saturday Morning, OTR Sitcom, originating from WMAQ Radio, Chicago (NBC 1947-1949). Meet the Meeks was a follow up sitcom for the 1940-1942 program "Meet Mr. Meek." This family sitcom played in the radio days, when most families actually sat, and used their imaginations, together. The antics of Mortimer Meek, wife Agatha, daughter Peggy & Uncle Louie could not help but make you laugh out loud. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “MeetTheMeeks_486”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1948 · 81947 · 4
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: MeetTheMeeks_486
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 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.
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1947
1948
1949
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. MEEKS 1947-08-30 #001 Should Uncle Louie Marry · 30 Aug 1947
- 2. MEEKS 1947-10-04 #006 Family Health Diet · 4 Oct 1947
- 3. MEEKS 1947-11-08 #011 The Stray Puppy · 8 Nov 1947
MEEKS 1947-08-30 #001 Should Uncle Louie Marry
30 Aug 1947 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 August 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MEEKS 1947-10-04 #006 Family Health Diet
4 Oct 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 4 October 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MEEKS 1947-11-08 #011 The Stray Puppy
8 Nov 1947 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 8 November 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MEEKS 1947-12-20 #016 Is Uncle Louis an Heir
20 Dec 1947 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 20 December 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MEEKS 1948-01-31 #021 Average American Family
31 Jan 1948 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 31 January 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MEEKS 1948-03-06 #026 Drugstore Cowboy
6 Mar 1948 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 March 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MEEKS 1948-04-10 #031 TheTurn-About Party-Peggy's 2 Dates
10 Apr 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 10 April 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MEEKS 1948-05-15 #036 Big Fishing Trip (aka Vacation Plans)
15 May 1948 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 15 May 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
6 Mar 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Mar 1948.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 March 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1947–1949
Other series the network carried while Meet the Meeks 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 Meet the Meeks
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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