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...
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
11 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. Audition Show · 23 Aug 1950
- 2. Harold Loses His Job at the Radio Station · 17 Sep 1950
- 3. Plan to Rename Boomer Park · 24 Sep 1950
Marvin Decides to Stay with Harold
13 Jun 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 13 June 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Peabody's Sister Takes over the Radio Station
6 Jun 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 June 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Harold Is Marshall for a Day
30 May 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 30 May 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Marvin Is Invited to a Party
23 May 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 23 May 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Does Florabelle Have a New Lover
16 May 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 16 May 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Harold and Mr Walker Vie for Class
9 May 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 9 May 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Marvin's Gang
2 May 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 2 May 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Circus Day
25 Apr 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 April 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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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