Meet Corliss Archer
CBS
CBS · 1943–1956
Broadcasts
60
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1943
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1943–1956
- Surviving broadcasts
- 60
- Genre
- comedy
Meet Corliss Archer ran on CBS from 1943 to 1956, adapting F. Hugh Herbert's stories of the teenage Corliss and her boyfriend Dexter, with Janet Waldo in the title role for most of the run. These recordings stream from the Internet Archive.
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
15 dated broadcasts across 84 years on the air, with 82 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Case of the Missing Hour · 17 Jun 2025
- 2. Sign Off · 24 Jun 2025
- 3. Dead Air · 1 Jul 2025
- 01
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 35 min
- 02
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 50 min
- 03
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 5m
- 04
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 28 min
- 05
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 43 min
- 06
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 58 min
- 07
Signal at Midnight
23 Jun 2026 · 21 min
- 08
A Room Above the Street
16 Jun 2026 · 36 min
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