The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 48
- Genre
- variety
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “GoodNews”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
12 dated broadcasts across 14 years on the air, with 10 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1937, in original transmission order.
- 1. ep008 Rosalie · 23 Dec 1937
- 2. ep019 Guest Virginia Bruce · 10 Mar 1938
- 3. ep027 Guests Clark Gable and Judy Garland · 5 May 1938
- 01
ep008 Rosalie
23 Dec 1937 · 1h 0m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
ep019 Guest Virginia Bruce
10 Mar 1938 · 1h 2m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
ep027 Guests Clark Gable and Judy Garland
5 May 1938 · 1h 2m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
ep033 Guest Ed Sullivan
16 Jun 1938 · 1h 0m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
ep40 Guest Spencer Tracy
29 Sep 1938 · 59 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
ep44 Guest Clark Gable
27 Oct 1938 · 1h 2m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
ep48 Guest Tony Martin
24 Nov 1938 · 1h 0m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
ep53 Guest Bill Stern
29 Dec 1938 · 1h 0m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Good News was on the air.
Same seasons
variety 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 Good News
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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