Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 November 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Vintage
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1944–1954
84 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1944
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1944–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 84
- Genre
- comedy
This upload contains 84 episodes of the great Old Time Radio comedy program, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, starring real-life married couple Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Nelson (nee Hillard), and later in the series, their sons Ricky and David Nelson.
1954 · 61953 · 101952 · 81951 · 71950 · 41949 · 10
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 5 of 45Rough but complete · 40 of 45
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: ozzie-and-harriet-1945-08-12-37-antique-vase
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
24 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 5 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 1949, in original transmission order.
- 1. Ozzie and Harriet Invitations to Dinner · 20 Feb 1949
- 2. Ozzie and Harriet The Nelson Bank · 27 Feb 1949
- 3. Ozzie and Harriet Crystal Ball · 6 Mar 1949
Ozzie and Harriet Come as You Are
19 Feb 1954 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 19 February 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ozzie and Harriet The Loud Shirt
12 Feb 1954 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 12 February 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ozzie and Harriet The Sacrifice
5 Feb 1954 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 5 February 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ozzie and Harriet The Electric Train
29 Jan 1954 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 29 January 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ozzie and Harriet Comparisons
22 Jan 1954 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 22 January 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ozzie and Harriet Fifi La Plume
8 Jan 1954 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 8 January 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ozzie and Harriet The Lost Christmas Gift
25 Dec 1953 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 25 December 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ozzie and Harriet A Cup of Coffee
11 Dec 1953 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 December 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
16 Nov 1951
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 16 Nov 1951.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 November 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 November 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1944–1954
Other series the network carried while The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet 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 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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