The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1943–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 43
- Genre
- comedy
The Joan Davis Show is a title applied — in some cases specifically and in other cases generically — to several old-time radio comedy programs in the United States, some of which had other distinct titles as indicated below. Comedian Joan Davis starred in the programs, all but one version of which were broadcast on CBS. The Sealtest Village Store (1943-1945) Singer Rudy Vallée's joining the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II left Sealtest Dairy with no star for The Rudy Vallee Show , which it sponsored. Therefore, the program was revamped and renamed The Sealtest Village Store . Davis was promoted from cast…
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
12 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 2 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 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sealtest Village Store Guest Frank Sinatra · 9 Sep 1943
- 2. Sealtest Village Store Joan Wants to Join the WAVES (AFRS) · 6 Apr 1944
- 3. Sealtest Village Store Summer Series Buying Engagement Ring (AFRS # ) · 17 Aug 1944
Sealtest Village Store Guest Frank Sinatra
9 Sep 1943 · 29 min
Broadcast 9 September 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Sealtest Village Store Joan Wants to Join the WAVES (AFRS)
6 Apr 1944 · 28 min
Broadcast 6 April 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Sealtest Village Store Summer Series Buying Engagement Ring (AFRS # )
17 Aug 1944 · 30 min
Broadcast 17 August 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Sealtest Village Store Jack Has $ (AFRS # )
17 May 1945 · 30 min
Broadcast 17 May 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Show, The Will Andy Russell Make a Movie for Atomic Pictures
22 Oct 1945 · 25 min
Broadcast 22 October 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Show, The Barbara Plays a Trick on Joan
7 Jan 1946 · 25 min
Broadcast 7 January 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Show, The Gold Found in Swanville
4 Feb 1946 · 24 min
Broadcast 4 February 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Show, The Joan Has Insomnia
11 Mar 1946 · 24 min
Broadcast 11 March 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1943–1950
Other series the network carried while Joan Davis 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 Joan Davis
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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