The Great Gildersleeve
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 November 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1941–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 33
- Genre
- crooners
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “The_Dinah_Shore_Show”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1945 · 31944 · 51941 · 4
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_Dinah_Shore_Show
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
9 dated broadcasts across 6 years on the air, with 3 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1941, in original transmission order.
- 1. DinahShoreShow-1941.11.02 Eddie Cantor · 2 Nov 1941
- 2. DinahShoreShow-1941.11.23 somebody Loves Me · 23 Nov 1941
- 3. DinahShoreShow-1941.12.07 What Do You Think I Am · 7 Dec 1941
- 01
DinahShoreShow-1941.11.02 Eddie Cantor
2 Nov 1941 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 2 November 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
DinahShoreShow-1941.11.23 somebody Loves Me
23 Nov 1941 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 November 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
DinahShoreShow-1941.12.07 What Do You Think I Am
7 Dec 1941 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 7 December 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
DinahShoreShow-1941.12.28 Elmers Tune
28 Dec 1941 · 4 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 28 December 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
DinahShoreShow-1944.02.17 Speak Low
17 Feb 1944 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 17 February 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
DinahShoreShow-1944.03.09 They Ask About You
9 Mar 1944 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 March 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
DinahShoreShow-1944.05.18 Herbert Marshall
18 May 1944 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 18 May 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
DinahShoreShow-1944.06.08 Kenny Baker - War News
8 Jun 1944 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 8 June 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
23 Nov 1941
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 23 Nov 1941.
The Shadow
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Screen Guild Theater
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 November 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1941–1946
Other series the network carried while The Dinah Shore Show was on the air.
Same seasons
crooners on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The crooner's hour
A microphone close enough to hear breath, and a singer who sang to one listener instead of a hall. Crosby, Jolson and Dinah Shore invented intimacy as a broadcast technique.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Dinah Shore Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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