The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1950–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 60
- Genre
- comedy
[Updated 6/26/20 to add 5 new episodes] This upload contains 40 episodes of the Old Time Radio comedy, The Magnificent Montague. The show, which aired from 1950-1951, starred Monty Woolley as a Broadway actor who fell on hard times and had to take a job in radio. The dates, episode numbers and titles are believed to be correct based on available information, but any corrections are welcome. Initial upload: 4/27/2020 (33 episodes) 1st update: 6/26/2020 (5 episodes) 2nd update: 7/18/2021 (2 episodes: 4/6/1951, 4/20/1951) Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available sources on the Internet, and my goal has been to put together a collection of every available episode where possible. I will add to these collections if I discover new episodes or if any new episodes become available. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “magnificent-montague-1951-03-30-21-cuckoo-clock”; 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
8 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. Magnificent Montague 1950-11-10 (1) Starring Role in Radio · 10 Nov 1950
- 2. Magnificent Montague 1950-12-15 (6) One Thousand Dollar Prize · 15 Dec 1950
- 3. Magnificent Montague 1951-02-02 (13) Sharing Bungalow · 2 Feb 1951
Magnificent Montague 1950-11-10 (1) Starring Role in Radio
10 Nov 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 10 November 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Magnificent Montague 1950-12-15 (6) One Thousand Dollar Prize
15 Dec 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 15 December 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Magnificent Montague 1951-02-02 (13) Sharing Bungalow
2 Feb 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 2 February 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Magnificent Montague 1951-03-09 (18) Gossip Column
9 Mar 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 March 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Magnificent Montague 1951-04-13 (23) Road Show
13 Apr 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 13 April 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Magnificent Montague 1951-05-26 (29) Montague's Surprise Birthday Party
26 May 1951 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 26 May 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Magnificent Montague 1951-06-30 (34) July Fourth
30 Jun 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 30 June 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Magnificent Montague 1951-09-03 (43) Gossip Column
3 Sep 1951 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 3 September 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1950–1951
Other series the network carried while The Magnificent Montague 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 Magnificent Montague
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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