The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 33
- Genre
- variety
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Squibb_Show”; 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
7 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 9 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 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. Guest Susanne Angeles · 8 Nov 1943
- 2. Guest Vera Brodsky · 22 Nov 1943
- 3. Guest Audrey March · 1 Dec 1943
- 01
Guest Susanne Angeles
8 Nov 1943 · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Guest Vera Brodsky
22 Nov 1943 · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Guest Audrey March
1 Dec 1943 · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Guest Jess Walters
27 Dec 1943 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Guest William Hain
14 Jan 1944 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Guest Marjorie Hamill
2 Feb 1944 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Guest Audrey Marsh
14 Feb 1944 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Guest Max Poilakoff
1 Mar 1944 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while The Squibb Show was on the air.
Same seasons
variety 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 Squibb Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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