The run
- Network
- NBC / CBS
- Years active
- 1938–1941
- Surviving broadcasts
- 90
- Genre
- drama
Gertrude Berg's Bronx family serial — she wrote it, starred in it, and made it one of the longest-running things on the air. 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
22 dated broadcasts across 89 years on the air, with 86 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 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. A Room Above the Street · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. Signal at Midnight · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. The Last Train Out · 3 Dec 2024
Signal at Midnight
4 Aug 2026 · 17 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
A Room Above the Street
28 Jul 2026 · 32 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Long Silence
21 Jul 2026 · 47 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Dead Air
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 2m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Sign Off
7 Jul 2026 · 25 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Case of the Missing Hour
30 Jun 2026 · 40 min
The one everybody argues about.
Night Broadcast
23 Jun 2026 · 55 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Last Train Out
16 Jun 2026 · 18 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Also on NBC / CBS
NBC / CBS in 1938–1941
Other series the network carried while The Goldbergs was on the air.
Same seasons
drama on the air then
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