G.I. Journal
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “G.i.Journal-10Episodes”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
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.
1948 · 61947 · 51944 · 1
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: TheJimmyDuranteShow
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
10 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 5 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 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. Jimmy Durante Show - Christmas Show · 22 Dec 1944
- 2. Gary Moore · 13 May 1947
- 3. Jimmy Durante Show - Arthur Treacher Moves In With Jimmy · 22 Oct 1947
- 01
Jimmy Durante Show - Christmas Show
22 Dec 1944 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Gary Moore
13 May 1947 · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Jimmy Durante Show - Arthur Treacher Moves In With Jimmy
22 Oct 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Jimmy Durante Show - Jimmy And Dorothy Lamour Go To Washington
12 Nov 1947 · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Jimmy Durante Show - With Boris Karloff As Happy Sam The Record Man
10 Dec 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Jimmy Durante Show - New Years Eve With Red Skelton
31 Dec 1947 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Jimmy Durante Show - Captain Jolies Showboat Al Jolson Subs
21 Jan 1948 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Jimmy Durante Show - Jimmys Birthday Party
11 Feb 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
22 Dec 1944
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 22 Dec 1944.
G.I. Journal
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'G.i.Journal-10Episodes' (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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