Blackstone, the Magic Detective
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
Radio
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
CBS / NBC / ABC
CBS / NBC / ABC · 1944–1954
128 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1944
The run
- Network
- CBS / NBC / ABC
- Years active
- 1944–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 128
- Genre
- comedy
This upload contains 84 episodes of the great Old Time Radio comedy program, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, starring real-life married couple Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Nelson (nee Hillard), and later in the series, their sons Ricky and David Nelson.
1953 · 11952 · 11951 · 11950 · 11949 · 21948 · 21947 · 11946 · 11945 · 11944 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 5 of 45Rough but complete · 40 of 45
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: ozzie-and-harriet-1945-08-12-37-antique-vase
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1954
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. O&H 1944-11-09 #007 Enters Essay Contest on Glamour · 9 Nov 1944
- 2. Ozzie and Harriet 1945-08-26 (39) Ozzie and Harriet · 26 Aug 1945
- 3. O&H 1946-06-23 #082 Ozzie Thinks He'll be a New Father · 23 Jun 1946
- 01
O&H 1944-11-09 #007 Enters Essay Contest on Glamour
9 Nov 1944 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 November 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Ozzie and Harriet 1945-08-26 (39) Ozzie and Harriet
26 Aug 1945 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “ozzie-and-harriet-1945-08-12-37-antique-vase”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
O&H 1946-06-23 #082 Ozzie Thinks He'll be a New Father
23 Jun 1946 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 June 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
O&H 1947-10-26 #131 (Repeats at #331) (AFRS) The Handy Man
26 Oct 1947 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 26 October 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
O&H 1948-11-07 #170 Ozzie is in a Rut
7 Nov 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 7 November 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
O&H 1948-12-19 #176 Radio-Phonograph (aka The Christmas Present)
19 Dec 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 19 December 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Ozzie and Harriet 1949-02-06 (183) House Cleaning
6 Feb 1949 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “ozzie-and-harriet-1945-08-12-37-antique-vase”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
Ozzie and Harriet Income Tax Problems
13 Mar 1949 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 13 March 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
6 Feb 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Feb 1949.
Our Miss Brooks
Our Miss Brooks
OMB 1949-02-06 #027 Missing Electric Heater (Version 1) (Comm. Free)
6 Feb 1949 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 February 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Under Arrest
Broadcast 6 February 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
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 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
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