Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Broadcast 4 October 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1950–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 38
- Genre
- comedy
The Harold Peary Show made its CBS debut on September 9, 1950. An audition show was done on August 23, 1950. Harold Peary was the creator and main performer for the show. Previously starring on The Great Gildersleeve , Peary took many of Gildy's characteristics along with him to his new Honest Harold character...
1951 · 71950 · 5
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 38 of 38
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_Harold_Peary_Show_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
9 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. Audition Show · 23 Aug 1950
- 2. Advertising Shark Repellant Powder on the Radio Show · 4 Oct 1950
- 3. Harold's Campaign Speech · 25 Oct 1950
- 01
Audition Show
23 Aug 1950 · 32 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 23 August 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 02
Advertising Shark Repellant Powder on the Radio Show
4 Oct 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 October 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 03
Harold's Campaign Speech
25 Oct 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 October 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 04
Getting a Job for Raymond
15 Nov 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 November 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 05
Harold Helps Raymond and Gloria Go to the Dance
13 Dec 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 13 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 06
Mrs O'Day's Warbleware Party
3 Jan 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 3 January 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 07
Harold Gets Engaged - Twice
24 Jan 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 24 January 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
Mistaken Valentines
14 Feb 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 14 February 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
4 Oct 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 4 Oct 1950.
Honest Harold
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1950–1951
Other series the network carried while The Harold Peary 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 Harold Peary Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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