Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1940–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 41
- 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 · 141950 · 21949 · 21947 · 31946 · 71945 · 61944 · 21943 · 41940 · 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
27 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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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. DT #000 Forecast Audition · 9 Jul 1940
- 2. DT #000 Clifton Fadiman · 1 Jun 1943
- 3. DT #000 Lucille Ball asks “Who’s Archie” · 12 Sep 1943
DT Hawaiian Vacation Slogan Contest
28 Dec 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
DT Atomic Research
21 Dec 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
DT Archie's Old Grammer School Teacher Visits Ver 2
14 Dec 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 14 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
DT A Baby is Left at Tavern
7 Dec 1951 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
DT Archie Buy a Race Horse
30 Nov 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 November 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
DT Archie Opens a Tea Room
23 Nov 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 November 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
DT #114 Deems Taylor
16 Nov 1951 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 November 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
DT Deems Taylor
16 Nov 1951 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 November 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
28 Dec 1951
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 28 Dec 1951.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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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