The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1948–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 41
- Genre
- comedy
This upload contains all 41 episodes of the Old Time Radio program, The Sealtest Variety Theater. The show, starring Dorothy Lamour as host and performer, aired during the 1948-1949 season, began more as a variety program, but later shifted to focus more on comedy, especially after Eddie Bracken joined the cast. This program was essentially a successor to the 1947 summer replacement series hosted by Lamour, Front and Center. The dates, episode numbers and titles are believed to be correct based on available information, but any corrections are welcome. Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available sources on the Internet, and my goal has been to put together a collection of every available episode where possible. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “sealtest-variety-theater-1948-10-21-6-happy-ending”; 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
11 dated broadcasts across 2 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 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sealtest Variety Theater 1948-09-09 (1) Waiting Room · 9 Sep 1948
- 2. Sealtest Variety Theater 1948-10-14 (5) Bob Hope & Robert Young · 14 Oct 1948
- 3. Sealtest Variety Theater 1948-11-04 (8) Slight of Hand · 4 Nov 1948
Sealtest Variety Theater 1948-09-09 (1) Waiting Room
9 Sep 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 September 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Sealtest Variety Theater 1948-10-14 (5) Bob Hope & Robert Young
14 Oct 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 14 October 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Sealtest Variety Theater 1948-11-04 (8) Slight of Hand
4 Nov 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 4 November 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Sealtest Variety Theater 1948-12-02 (12) Lum and Abner
2 Dec 1948 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 2 December 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Sealtest Variety Theater 1948-12-30 (16) New Year's Show
30 Dec 1948 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 30 December 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Sealtest Variety Theater 1949-01-20 (19) Lloyd Nolan & Eddie Cantor
20 Jan 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 20 January 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Sealtest Variety Theater 1949-02-24 (23) Husband-Wife Breakfast Shows
24 Feb 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 24 February 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Sealtest Variety Theater 1949-03-17 (26) Live from the Shamrock Hotel
17 Mar 1949 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 17 March 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1948–1949
Other series the network carried while Sealtest Variety Theater 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 Sealtest Variety Theater
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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