The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1946–1947
- Surviving broadcasts
- 42
- Genre
- comedy
Mel Blanc's success on The Jack Benny Program led to his own radio show on the CBS Radio Network, The Mel Blanc Show , which ran from September 3, 1946 to June 24, 1947. Blanc played himself as the hapless owner of a fix-it shop, as well as a wide range of comical support characters.
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
10 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 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. Cake Contest · 17 Sep 1946
- 2. Tries to Fix a Water Heater · 24 Sep 1946
- 3. Muscle Man Contest · 1 Oct 1946
Missing Bread Slices
24 Jun 1947 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 24 June 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
At the Market
17 Jun 1947 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 17 June 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Chinese Philosopher
10 Jun 1947 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 10 June 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
To Rent a Summer Cottage
3 Jun 1947 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 3 June 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
French Interior Decorator
27 May 1947 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 27 May 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Trial Separation
20 May 1947 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 May 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Supermarket Journal Editor
13 May 1947 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 13 May 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Oil Stock
6 May 1947 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 May 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1946–1947
Other series the network carried while The Mel Blanc 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 Mel Blanc Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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