The Strange Dr. Weird
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 13 February 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1938–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 190
- Genre
- comedy
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “The_Bob_Hope_Program”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1953 · 21952 · 11951 · 11949 · 11948 · 11947 · 11945 · 21944 · 11941 · 11938 · 1
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: The_Bob_Hope_Program
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 18 years on the air, with 8 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 1938, in original transmission order.
- 1. Constance Bennett (1st Pepsodent Show) · 27 Sep 1938
- 2. From Bob's Hometown - Cleveland, Ohio · 10 Jun 1941
- 3. From Santa Ana Separation Center w Bing Crosby · 15 Feb 1944
- 01
Constance Bennett (1st Pepsodent Show)
27 Sep 1938 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
From Bob's Hometown - Cleveland, Ohio
10 Jun 1941 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
From Santa Ana Separation Center w Bing Crosby
15 Feb 1944 · 20 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
From Mudock, California Tony R
13 Feb 1945 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
From Phoenix Jimmy Durante
4 Dec 1945 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Bob Hope Show.1947.04.01 Guest Eddie Canter
1 Apr 1947 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Bob Hope Show.1948.12.07 Beethoven W Bing Crosby Doris Day
7 Dec 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Rehearsal for (v) - ADD
11 Oct 1949 · 22 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
13 Feb 1945
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 13 Feb 1945.
Alan Young Show
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 13 February 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1938–1955
Other series the network carried while The Bob Hope Program 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 Bob Hope Program
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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