Hear It Now
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1940–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 432
- Genre
- comedy
(118 Episodes) "Duffy's Tavern" was/is a Wartime situation comedy which ran for a decade on several different radio networks: CBS, 1941–1942; NBC-Blue Network, 1942–1944; NBC, 1944–1951. The final "Duffy's Tavern" episode airdate was December 28, 1951.
1951 · 21950 · 11949 · 21947 · 11946 · 11945 · 21944 · 11943 · 11940 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Rough but complete · 41 of 41
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: DuffysTavern_524
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 12 years on the air, with 3 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1940, in original transmission order.
- 1. duff.1940.04.11 Duffys Tavern · 11 Apr 1940
- 2. Guest Lucille Ball (AFRS) · 9 Nov 1943
- 3. Guest: Carole Landis (AFRS #47) · 11 Apr 1944
- 01
duff.1940.04.11 Duffys Tavern
11 Apr 1940 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 April 1940. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Guest Lucille Ball (AFRS)
9 Nov 1943 · 30 min
Broadcast 9 November 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
Guest: Carole Landis (AFRS #47)
11 Apr 1944 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 April 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Duffy's Tavern 1945-01-05 (153) Jinx Falkenburg
5 Jan 1945 · 8 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 5 January 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Archie's Nephew (AFRS)
26 Oct 1945 · 29 min
Broadcast 26 October 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
DT #199 Alan Ladd
22 Feb 1946 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 February 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 07
Mad Russian
28 May 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 May 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
DT 1949-02-16 #311 Schoolmate Willie Gundig Pays Tavern a Visit
16 Feb 1949 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “DuffysTavern_524”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
12 Jan 1951
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 12 Jan 1951.
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Broadcast 12 January 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
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Also on NBC
NBC in 1940–1951
Other series the network carried while Duffy's Tavern was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy 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 Duffy's Tavern
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