Myrt & Marge
Originally broadcast on CBS, 10 July 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1946–1957
- Surviving broadcasts
- 656
- Genre
- docudrama
Proudly We Hail was a public service show for the Army and Air Force that first aired for a period of four months in 1941 on CBS. The show returned to the airways from 1946 through 1957 and aired on as many as 1300 radio stations. The 1941 shows were billed as a program designed "to strengthen the mainstream of the defense machine – the workers in the arsenal of democracy – during a time of unlimited national emergency". This was the time of the buildup of tensions in the Far East and just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Major Bowes and Jane Froman kicked off the first 30 minute show on the CBS network…
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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_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 12 years on the air, with 2 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 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. PWH (Audition) Repercussion (With Clark Gable) [T] · 10 Jul 1946
- 2. PWH The Lily Packs A Wallop [T] · 15 Jan 1947
- 3. PWH A Day In Connecticut · 14 Mar 1948
- 01
PWH (Audition) Repercussion (With Clark Gable) [T]
10 Jul 1946 · 15 min
Broadcast 10 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
PWH The Lily Packs A Wallop [T]
15 Jan 1947 · 15 min
Broadcast 15 January 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
PWH A Day In Connecticut
14 Mar 1948 · 28 min
Broadcast 14 March 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
PWH 134 [Series G 017] The Meadow Lark [T]
30 Jan 1949 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
PWH 062 [Series G 062] Once To Every Man [T]
11 Dec 1949 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
PWH 115 The Other Wise Man [T]
17 Dec 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
PWH 158 Lady On The Run [T]
14 Oct 1951 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
PWH 194 Flight To Freedom
22 Jun 1952 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
10 Jul 1946
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 10 Jul 1946.
The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1946–1957
Other series the network carried while Proudly We Hail was on the air.
Same seasons
docudrama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The state at the microphone
Programmes made to explain a war, a policy, or a country to its own citizens. The Voice of the Army and Your Army Air Forces are public information as broadcast craft.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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