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Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 72
- Genre
- comedy
Martin and Lewis were an American comedy duo, comprising singer Dean Martin (as the "straight man") and comedian Jerry Lewis (as his stooge). The pair worked together in nightclubs, on radio and television, and film from 1946 until 1956. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “MartinAndLewis_OldTimeRadio”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1953 · 21952 · 31951 · 21949 · 41948 · 1
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: MartinAndLewis_OldTimeRadio
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 14 years on the air, with 9 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1953
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. Bob Hope(Audition) · 21 Dec 1948
- 2. John Garfield · 22 May 1949
- 3. Ralph Bellamy · 5 Jul 1949
- 01
Bob Hope(Audition)
21 Dec 1948 · 38 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
John Garfield
22 May 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Ralph Bellamy
5 Jul 1949 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Jane Russell
30 Aug 1949 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Money Problems
14 Nov 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Bing Crosby
19 Oct 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Jane Wyman
30 Nov 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Frank Sinatra
18 Jan 1952 · 43 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
22 May 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 22 May 1949.
The Damon Runyon Theatre
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 Martin and Lewis 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 Martin and Lewis
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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