The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1949–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 89
- Genre
- sitcom
Ronald Colman as a college president, in the most literate comedy radio ever managed. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
22 dated broadcasts across 78 years on the air, with 75 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sign Off · 26 Nov 2024
- 2. Dead Air · 3 Dec 2024
- 3. The Long Silence · 10 Dec 2024
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 45 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 23 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 38 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 53 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 16 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 31 min
The one everybody argues about.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 46 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1949–1952
Other series the network carried while The Halls of Ivy was on the air.
Same seasons
sitcom on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The family at home
One house, a recurring cast, and comedy made from small domestic friction. Fibber McGee, Blondie and Ozzie and Harriet built the situation comedy before television claimed it.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Halls of Ivy
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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