Crime Classics
Crime Classics 1954-06-02 Mr. Jonathon Jewett; How Most Peculiarly He Cheated the Hangman
2 Jun 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 2 June 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1947–1959
- Surviving broadcasts
- 177
- Genre
- variety
This upload contains 180 episodes of the Old Time Radio show, You Bet Your Life starring Groucho Marx. Groucho was in his element interviewing guests while be given the freedom to ad lib. The dates, episode numbers and titles are believed to be correct based on available information, but any corrections are welcome.
1959 · 81958 · 71957 · 21955 · 31954 · 41953 · 51952 · 2
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Rough but complete · 31 of 31
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: you-bet-your-life-1952-02-20-160-secret-word-heart
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
23 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 6 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 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. You Bet Your Life Secret Word - Door · 26 Nov 1952
- 2. You Bet Your Life Secret Word - Fire · 10 Dec 1952
- 3. You Bet Your Life Secret Word - Foot · 23 Sep 1953
You Bet Your Life Secret Word - Shoe
28 Dec 1959 · 21 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 December 1959. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
You Bet Your Life Secret Word - Book
26 Oct 1959 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 October 1959. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
You Bet Your Life Secret Word - Room
19 Oct 1959 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 19 October 1959. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
You Bet Your Life Secret Word - Street
5 Oct 1959 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 5 October 1959. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
You Bet Your Life Secret Word - Paper
16 Mar 1959 · 18 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 March 1959. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
You Bet Your Life Secret Word - House
2 Mar 1959 · 18 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 2 March 1959. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
You Bet Your Life Secret Word - Nose
26 Jan 1959 · 18 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 January 1959. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
You Bet Your Life Secret Word - Voice
19 Jan 1959 · 17 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 19 January 1959. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
2 Jun 1954
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 2 Jun 1954.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 2 June 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1947–1959
Other series the network carried while You Bet Your Life was on the air.
Same seasons
variety 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 You Bet Your Life
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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