The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1943–1957
- Surviving broadcasts
- 206
- Genre
- theatre
Theater of Romance ran on the CBS network as a filler show between 1943 and 1957. It substituted from time to time for such shows as Gunsmoke , Life with Luigi , Lux Radio Theater , and many others. Producers, directors, and actors changed constantly through the years. Even the locale changed from New York to Los Angeles in 1945. Romance featured such stars as Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Shirley Temple, and many other Hollywood stars, often binding the story lines with the films in which the stars were currently being featured. The themed stories often revolved around historical fiction as well, and…
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 15 years on the air, with 7 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. ep019 Lady Hamilton · 23 Aug 1943
- 2. ep068 Pride And Prejudice · 29 Aug 1944
- 3. ep116 My Sister Eileen · 7 Aug 1945
ep019 Lady Hamilton
23 Aug 1943 · 29 min
Broadcast 23 August 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
ep068 Pride And Prejudice
29 Aug 1944 · 24 min
Broadcast 29 August 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
ep116 My Sister Eileen
7 Aug 1945 · 25 min
Broadcast 7 August 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
ep136 The Messiah
25 Dec 1945 · 25 min
Broadcast 25 December 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
ep233 Private of Orleans
8 Jan 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 8 January 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
ep265 Murder Island
16 Jun 1952 · 29 min
Broadcast 16 June 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
ep330 Lord Sweeney
19 Jun 1954 · 25 min
Broadcast 19 June 1954. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
ep352 The Hired Man
20 Nov 1954 · 24 min
Broadcast 20 November 1954. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1943–1957
Other series the network carried while Romance was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Romance
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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