The Red Skelton Show
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “red-skelton-show_202008”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Radio
American History Through the Eyes of Radio
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1943–1974
404 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1943
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1943–1974
- Surviving broadcasts
- 404
- Genre
- news
Through the magic of radio this unique collection of shows captures American History like no other medium can. From dramatizations of events prior to the formation of the United States and our fight for freedom from England through manifest destiny and our push to the Pacific Ocean.
1944 · 31943 · 21942 · 21941 · 31938 · 11920 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 1 of 45Rough but complete · 44 of 45
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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: OTRR_American_History_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 55 years on the air, with 49 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 1920, in original transmission order.
- 1. 1920 0704 Calvin Coolidge - Equal Right · 4 Jul 1920
- 2. 1938 0313 CBS World News Roundup · 13 Mar 1938
- 3. 1941 0423 Charles Lindbergh - Address on U S Neutrality · 23 Apr 1941
- 01
1920 0704 Calvin Coolidge - Equal Right
4 Jul 1920 · 3 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_American_History_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
1938 0313 CBS World News Roundup
13 Mar 1938 · 22 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_American_History_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
1941 0423 Charles Lindbergh - Address on U S Neutrality
23 Apr 1941 · 9 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_American_History_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
1941 1207 NBC - S Marlowe & R D Bennett - Pearl Harbor
7 Dec 1941 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_American_History_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
1941 1208 2130 NBC Blue News
8 Dec 1941 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_American_History_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
1942 0607 Battle of Midway Island
7 Jun 1942 · 20 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_American_History_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
1942 1208 An American in England - Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat
8 Dec 1942 · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_American_History_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
1943 0418 CBS World News Today
18 Apr 1943 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_American_History_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
6 Jun 1944
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Jun 1944.
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
This will include a current CBS D-Day directory with some additions
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
Old Time Radio Programs, Complete Broadcast Day, D Day, June 06 1944
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
CBS Complete Broadcast Day D-Day 1944-06-06 Part 005
6 Jun 1944 · 1h 1m
This upload contains CBS Radio's complete broadcast day for D-Day, June 6, 1944. Coverage begins in the early overnight hours on June 6, and continues into the early hours of June 7. The broadcast is broken into 24 hour-long segments. The professionalism, quality and integrity of the reporting is refreshing.
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
NBC Broadcast D-Day 1944-06-06 (14) 10:00 Nancy Osgood
6 Jun 1944 · 15 min
This upload contains the complete broadcast day for NBC Radio on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The broadcast begins at 2:50 a.m. Eastern War Time and continues until 6:00 p.m. on June 7, 1944. Not only is the news coverage professional and excellent at providing a real-time look at what the American people were learning as news was breaking, it is interesting to hear so many different religious leaders offer prayers in support of the invasion, the soldiers and the country. A different time.
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
NBC Broadcast D-Day 1944-06-06 (37) 19:00 News Of The World
6 Jun 1944 · 29 min
This upload contains the complete broadcast day for NBC Radio on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The broadcast begins at 2:50 a.m. Eastern War Time and continues until 6:00 p.m. on June 7, 1944. Not only is the news coverage professional and excellent at providing a real-time look at what the American people were learning as news was breaking, it is interesting to hear so many different religious leaders offer prayers in support of the invasion, the soldiers and the country. A different time.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1943–1974
Other series the network carried while American History Through the Eyes of Radio was on the air.
Same seasons
news on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The broadcast desk
Wartime correspondence and Cavalcade of America established the daily explainer and the narrated history hour long before either had a feed.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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