The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1956–1957
- Surviving broadcasts
- 86
- Genre
- theatre
CBS Radio Workshop was a revival of the Columbia Workshop of the late thirties. All 86 episodes survive today. The series aired from 27 Jan 1956 until 22 Sep 1957, of course on CBS. The original idea for the show came from Irving Reis back in the thirties.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
10 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1956, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Big Event · 16 Dec 1956
- 2. All Is Bright · 23 Dec 1956
- 3. Carl Sandburg's 79th Birthday · 6 Jan 1957
Young Man Axelbrod
22 Sep 1957 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 22 September 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Time Found Again
15 Sep 1957 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 September 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
People Are No Good
8 Sep 1957 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 8 September 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Grief Drives a Black Sedan
1 Sep 1957 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 September 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Sweet Cherries in Charleston
25 Aug 1957 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 August 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Celestial Omnibus
18 Aug 1957 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 August 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Malihini Magic
11 Aug 1957 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 August 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Heart of the Man
4 Aug 1957 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 August 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1956–1957
Other series the network carried while CBS Radio Workshop was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of CBS Radio Workshop
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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