The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1957–1957
- Surviving broadcasts
- 15
- Genre
- comedy
The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fifteen episodes in 1957–58. The show, starring comedian Stan Freberg and featuring the vocal talents of Daws Butler, June Foray, and Peter Leeds and the musical direction of Billy May, ran in the 7 p.m.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
4 dated broadcasts across 1 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 1957, in original transmission order.
- 1. Musical Sheep · 14 Jul 1957
- 2. Barbara Frichie · 21 Jul 1957
- 3. Miss Jupiter · 28 Jul 1957
Last Show...The Best Of
20 Oct 1957 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 October 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Sponsored by Freberg
13 Oct 1957 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 13 October 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
All About Werewolves
6 Oct 1957 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 October 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Rocket Sled
29 Sep 1957 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 29 September 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
College Football Report
22 Sep 1957 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 22 September 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Build-It-Yourself Piano
15 Sep 1957 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 September 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Abominable Snowman Revisited
8 Sep 1957 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 8 September 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Good Humor Man
1 Sep 1957 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 September 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1957–1957
Other series the network carried while The Stan Freberg 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 Stan Freberg Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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