The run
- Network
- CBC
- Years active
- 1946–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 4
- Genre
- comedy
Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster began on CBC radio in 1946 after entertaining troops with the Canadian Army Show. These are the radio performances of their signature sketches, recorded before the television remakes and differing from them in places.
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
1 dated broadcasts across 15 years on the air, with 14 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 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. A Shakespearean Baseball Game · 1 Jan 1950
- 2. I Was a TV Addict · 1 Jan 1950
- 3. Rinse the Blood off my Toga · 1 Jan 1950
A Shakespearean Baseball Game
1 Jan 1950 · 10 min
The radio version of the sketch, as first performed on the CBC before the television remakes. Restored from the Internet Archive.
I Was a TV Addict
1 Jan 1950 · 10 min
The radio version of the sketch, as first performed on the CBC before the television remakes. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Rinse the Blood off my Toga
1 Jan 1950 · 12 min
The radio version of the sketch, as first performed on the CBC before the television remakes. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Frontier Psychiatrist
1 Jan 1950 · 8 min
The radio version of the sketch, as first performed on the CBC before the television remakes. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Also on CBC
CBC in 1946–1960
Other series the network carried while Wayne and Shuster 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 Wayne and Shuster
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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