Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1950–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 109
- Genre
- kids
Comic Weekly Man aired from 1947 to 1954 and was a show where the Comic Weekly Man would read the Sunday comics in a dramatic fashion, complete with music and sound effects as well. Adults and children of all ages would tune in to hear the show and to enjoy the antics of the Comic Weekly Man .
1953 · 361952 · 9
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 45 of 45
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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: OTRR_Comic_Weekly_Man_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
14 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air, with 2 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
1951
1952
1953
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. CWM ep289 Rusty Riley Rides in Races, First Comic - Beetle Bailey · 2 Nov 1952
- 2. CWM ep290 Rusty to Finish Race, First Comic - Beetle Bailey · 9 Nov 1952
- 3. CWM ep291 Rusty Won Race, First Comic - Prince Valiant · 16 Nov 1952
CWM ep347 St. Nick is Coming, First Comic - Ben and Me
13 Dec 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 13 December 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CWM ep346 What Two Animals Do You Always Go to Bed With, First Comic - Beetle Bailey
6 Dec 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 December 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CWM ep341 Halloween, First Comic - Beetle Bailey
1 Nov 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 November 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CWM ep340 Halloween Costume, First Comic - Beetle Bailey
25 Oct 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 25 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CWM ep339 Will You Give Me a Room With a Bath, First Comic - Beetle Bailey
18 Oct 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 18 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CWM ep338 Riddle - Add Ten to Nothing, First Comic - Bringing Up Father
11 Oct 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CWM ep337 Flash Traveling Alone to Another Planet, First Comic - Flash Gordon
4 Oct 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 4 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CWM ep336 Truman in American Weekly, First Comic - Sword and the Rose
27 Sep 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 27 September 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
11 Oct 1953
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 Oct 1953.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1950–1953
Other series the network carried while The Comic Weekly Man was on the air.
Same seasons
kids on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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Modern series carrying this form forward.
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