CBC Stage, 1949. Andrew Allan's Sunday-night drama series on the CBC Trans-Canada network. Starring Lorne Greene as Ahab. Restored from the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1948–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 212
- Genre
- comedy
(109 Episodes) (AFRTS Programs Listed) "My Favorite Husband" ... was/is a 1948-1951, 124 episode, CBS Radio situation comedy. The star billings of this very well-acted program were held by Lucille Ball and Richard Denning, as Liz & George Cooper or, Liz & George Cugat, as noted in the odd episode. The Cooper/Cugat couple live at 321 Bundy Drive, and are billed as "two people who live together and like it!" The main sponsor was Jell-O, which explains why an average of three advertisement "plugs" (including the same squeaky jingle as Henry Aldrich of "The Aldrich Family" sang for Jell-O), were made for Jell-O, during each episode. Producer for the broadcasting of all AFRTS episodes of “My Favorite Husband,” at Frankfurt, Germany Studios of the American Forces Network Europe, was Air Force Sgt. Dave Schofield. Announcer for AFRTS episodes of these programs, was Specialist Brad Scott. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “MyFavoriteHusband_866”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1951 · 11950 · 41949 · 51948 · 2
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: MyFavoriteHusband_866
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1949
1950
1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. MFH 1948-07-05 #000 (Audition) (Cooper) George's Old Flame (aka 1948-10-03 George's Old Flame) (aka Cooper's 10th Wed Anniv) · 5 Jul 1948
- 2. MFH 1948-10-09 #013 (AFRTS) Young Matrons League Game · 9 Oct 1948
- 3. MFH 1949-01-01 #025 WRONG DATE (Cugat) (Repeat #011) Young Matrons League Tryouts · 1 Jan 1949
MFH 1948-07-05 #000 (Audition) (Cooper) George's Old Flame (aka 1948-10-03 George's Old Flame) (aka Cooper's 10th Wed Anniv)
5 Jul 1948 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 5 July 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MFH 1948-10-09 #013 (AFRTS) Young Matrons League Game
9 Oct 1948 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 9 October 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MFH 1949-01-01 #025 WRONG DATE (Cugat) (Repeat #011) Young Matrons League Tryouts
1 Jan 1949 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 January 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MFH 1949-03-11 #035 (AFRTS) (Cooper) - Charity Review
11 Mar 1949 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 March 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MFH 1949-06-10 #048 Hair Dyed
10 Jun 1949 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 10 June 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
My Favorite Husband 1949-10-14 (57) Television
14 Oct 1949 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 14 October 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
MFH 1949-12-23 #068 The Sleigh Ride
23 Dec 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 23 December 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
My Favorite Husband 1950-02-24 (76) Liz Redecorates The House
24 Feb 1950 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 24 February 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
1 Jan 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 1 Jan 1949.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1948–1951
Other series the network carried while My Favorite Husband 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 My Favorite Husband
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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