The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1930–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 1
- Genre
- sitcom
Jack Benny's tenor given his own show, and the same joke about never growing up. 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
1 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 36 min
The one everybody argues about.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1930–1955
Other series the network carried while A Day in the Life of Dennis Day 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 A Day in the Life of Dennis Day
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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