Originally broadcast on ABC, 6 March 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1932–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 274
- Genre
- comedy
[Note: This upload is a duplicate of my other Fred Allen Version 2 upload with one difference. In this upload, the episodes are numbered restarting at 1 for each different sponsor. In the version 2 upload, the episodes have been numbered consecutively regardless of sponsor.] This upload contains 277 episodes of the Fred Allen radio shows
1949 · 121948 · 161947 · 151946 · 2
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 10 of 45Listenable · 10 of 45Rough but complete · 25 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: townhalltonight1938060871musicpublisherneedsatune
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
22 dated broadcasts across 18 years on the air, with 14 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. Fred Allen Show Radio Mikado · 13 Oct 1946
- 2. Fred Allen Show Breakfast Show · 27 Oct 1946
- 3. Fred Allen Show British Radio · 12 Jan 1947
Fred Allen Show Final Show
29 Jun 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 29 June 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Fred Allen Show Babysitting
22 May 1949 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 May 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Fred Allen Show Jamaica Race Track
1 May 1949 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 May 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Fred Allen Show The Mad Doctor Of Downing Street
24 Apr 1949 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 April 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Fred Allen Show Mob Buster
20 Mar 1949 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 20 March 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Fred Allen Show Guest - Frank Morgan
6 Mar 1949 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 March 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Fred Allen Show Cease the Melody
27 Feb 1949 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 February 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Fred Allen Show Murder Case
13 Feb 1949 · 31 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 13 February 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
6 Mar 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Mar 1949.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 March 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 6 March 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1932–1949
Other series the network carried while The Fred Allen Show 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 The Fred Allen Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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