The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1930–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 39
- Genre
- sitcom
"Hen-reeee! Henry Aldrich!" Teenage disaster, weekly, for a decade. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
10 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 95 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. A Room Above the Street · 11 Nov 2025
- 2. Signal at Midnight · 18 Nov 2025
- 3. The Last Train Out · 25 Nov 2025
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 36 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 51 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 14 min
The one everybody argues about.
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 29 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 44 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 59 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 22 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 37 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1930–1955
Other series the network carried while The Aldrich Family was on the air.
Same seasons
sitcom on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The family at home
One house, a recurring cast, and comedy made from small domestic friction. Fibber McGee, Blondie and Ozzie and Harriet built the situation comedy before television claimed it.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Aldrich Family
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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