The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1945–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 48
- Genre
- comedy
Singles from the OTRR Maintained Danny Kaye set. THE DANNY KAYE SHOW In December 1944 it was announced that Pabst Sales Co. was dropping The Kenny Baker Show in favor of a vehicle for rising star Danny Kaye. Pabst had tried to sign established comedian Fred Allen for the show at a whopping cost of $25,000 per episode but the effort fizzled when Allen reportedly sniffing that he didn’t care to work for a beer company. Kaye agreed to a package costing the beer producer $16,000 per week, 2/3 the cost of Fred Allen. The Danny Kaye Show debuted on January 6, 1945 and featured Eve Arden, Frank Nelson, Lionel Stander among others. Music…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
6 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1945, in original transmission order.
- 1. Guest Eddie Cantor · 6 Jan 1945
- 2. A Baby From Washington (AFRS) · 3 Feb 1945
- 3. Woman Building Inspector (AFRS) · 24 Feb 1945
Guest Eddie Cantor
6 Jan 1945 · 29 min
Broadcast 6 January 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
A Baby From Washington (AFRS)
3 Feb 1945 · 30 min
Broadcast 3 February 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Woman Building Inspector (AFRS)
24 Feb 1945 · 29 min
Broadcast 24 February 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Romeo and Juliet
10 Mar 1945 · 29 min
Broadcast 10 March 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Danny Kaye Show 1945-06-01 (022)
1 Jun 1945 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Danny_Kaye_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Court of Human Relations (AFRS)
25 Jan 1946 · 28 min
Broadcast 25 January 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Guest Arthur Treacher (AFRS)
24 May 1946 · 30 min
Broadcast 24 May 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
AFRS 6 Uncle Dans Cabin
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1945–1946
Other series the network carried while The Danny Kaye Show 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 Danny Kaye Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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