The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1950–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- adventure
(52 Episodes * 1950) "MA PERKINS" or "OXYDOL'S OWN MA PERKINS," so named after its original sponsor, Oxydol Laundry Detergent. Although Oxydol sponsored OXYDOL’S OWN MA PERKINS for a long time, there was an eventual parting of the ways. On Friday, November 30, 1956, the final broadcast took place under Oxydol sponsorship. The following Monday, the program was sponsored by the “Multi Sponsors” package. The program continued its story with various sponsors until Friday, November 25, 1960. This was the sad day when MA PERKINS and the other 5 remaining radio serials aired their final broadcasts on CBS Radio.As for Oxydol (the detergent), it was a sponsor or co-sponsor of different daytime serials on television. SOURCE: old-time. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “MaPerkins021950”; 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
1 dated broadcasts across 1 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 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. Ma P 1950 #4451 Fay Tells Ma of Sylvester's Proposal (aka 1950-08-29) · 29 Aug 1950
- 2. Ma P 1950 #4434 Sylvester Has Tricked Willie · Date unknown
- 3. Ma P 1950 #4444 Faye Asks Shuffle for Advice · Date unknown
Ma P 1950 #4451 Fay Tells Ma of Sylvester's Proposal (aka 1950-08-29)
29 Aug 1950 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 29 August 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Ma P 1950 #4434 Sylvester Has Tricked Willie
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Ma P 1950 #4444 Faye Asks Shuffle for Advice
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Ma P 1950 #4454 Not in love with Cousin Sylvester
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Ma P 1950 #4470 Sylvester Cons Evey , to Keep Money
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Ma P 1950 #4488 Shuffle goes to see Evey & Willie
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Ma P 1950 #4538 Everyone A-Flutter (Faye’s in Love)
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Ma P 1950 #4438 Willie ‘Invests’ $2,000
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1950–1950
Other series the network carried while Ma Perkins #02 was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure 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 Ma Perkins #02
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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