Abbott and Costello
Broadcast 2 December 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 25
- Genre
- kids
JUMP JUMP AND THE ICE QUEEN Jump Jump, the 3-inch tall Elf was first conceived by the creative writing team of Mary McConnell and hubby Harry Hickox as an anchor character to introduce an initial series of some 65 vignettes of delightfully animated creature-based children's stories for year round, syndicated distribution through the Harry S. Goodman organization to radio stations across America. That initial syndication caught both the attention and entrepreneurial interest of Sampson R. Diamond, who sought to put a physical image and visual personality to the delightful 3-inch tall Elf. He contracted with the Hickox' syndicator, Harry S. Goodman to contract out the Hickox's for a 25-episode children's adventure anchored around the Christmas Holiday season. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Jump_Jump_Ice_Queen_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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: OTRR_Jump_Jump_Ice_Queen_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
2 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 10 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 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. Tim Meets Jump Jump · 22 Nov 1948
- 2. Travelling to the North Pole · 24 Nov 1948
- 3. Arriving At The North Pole · 26 Nov 1948
- 01
Tim Meets Jump Jump
22 Nov 1948 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Travelling to the North Pole
24 Nov 1948 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Arriving At The North Pole
26 Nov 1948 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Jump Jump And The Ice Queen 48-11-30 ep07 A Tour Of Santa's Workshop
30 Nov 1948 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Rescuing the Rescuer
2 Dec 1948 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Jump Jump And The Ice Queen 48-12-06 ep11 Journey to the Ice Queen's Palace
6 Dec 1948 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
The Christmas Tree Forest
8 Dec 1948 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Captured by Ice Dwarves
10 Dec 1948 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
2 Dec 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 2 Dec 1948.
Suspense
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Suspense_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Al Jolson
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Jump Jump and the Ice Queen was on the air.
Same seasons
kids on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Jump Jump and the Ice Queen
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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