The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1947–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 48
- Genre
- sitcom
Marie Wilson as radio's most cheerfully catastrophic roommate; the show that gave Martin and Lewis their first film. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
12 dated broadcasts across 80 years on the air, with 78 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dead Air · 9 Sep 2025
- 2. The Long Silence · 16 Sep 2025
- 3. A Room Above the Street · 23 Sep 2025
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 25 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 40 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 55 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 18 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 33 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 48 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 1h 3m
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 26 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1947–1954
Other series the network carried while My Friend Irma was on the air.
Same seasons
sitcom on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The family at home
One house, a recurring cast, and comedy made from small domestic friction. Fibber McGee, Blondie and Ozzie and Harriet built the situation comedy before television claimed it.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of My Friend Irma
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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