The run
- Network
- AFRS
- Years active
- 1944–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 10
- Genre
- comedy
G.I. Journal was an Armed Forces Radio Service comedy-variety series framed as a soldiers' newspaper, with a rotating 'editor' each week. Produced in Hollywood during the Second World War for overseas broadcast only, it survives from AFRS transcription discs in the public domain.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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
6 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 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. Bob Hope Betty Grab · 29 Apr 1944
- 2. Ed Sullivan Milton · 15 Oct 1944
- 3. Orson Welles Conne · 15 Dec 1944
Jack Benny Mel Blan
23 Apr 1945 · 34 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
Bob Hope Mel Blanc
6 Apr 1945 · 34 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
Groucho Marx Lucill
9 Mar 1945 · 33 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
William Bendix Conn
26 Jan 1945 · 34 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
Fibber Mc Gee And Molly
12 Jan 1945 · 22 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
Kay Kyser Mel Blanc
29 Dec 1944 · 22 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
Bob Hope Dorothy La
22 Dec 1944 · 17 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
Orson Welles Conne
15 Dec 1944 · 23 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (public domain).
Also on AFRS
AFRS in 1944–1945
Other series the network carried while G.I. Journal 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 G.I. Journal
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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