The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1943–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 43
- Genre
- comedy
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “TheJimmyDuranteShow”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
0 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 8 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Jimmy Durante Show - 441222 Christmas Show · Date unknown
- 2. Jimmy Durante Show - 471008 Jimmy And Eddie Cantor Remember Their Early Years · Date unknown
- 3. Jimmy Durante Show - 471210 With Boris Karloff As Happy Sam The Record Man · Date unknown
Jimmy Durante Show - 441222 Christmas Show
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Jimmy Durante Show - 471008 Jimmy And Eddie Cantor Remember Their Early Years
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Jimmy Durante Show - 471210 With Boris Karloff As Happy Sam The Record Man
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Jimmy Durante Show - 480211 Jimmys Birthday Party
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Jimmy Durante Show - 480505 Survey On Public Transportation Shortage
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Jimmy Durante Show - 471029 Making A Movie With Lucille Ball
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Jimmy Durante Show - 471231 New Years Eve With Red Skelton
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Jimmy Durante Show - 480128 Jimmy Returns To The Show
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1943–1950
Other series the network carried while The Jimmy Durante 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 Jimmy Durante Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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