The Railroad Hour
Broadcast · 1948 · Weekly
ABC / NBC
ABC / NBC · 1948–1954
Broadcasts
247
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1948
The run
- Network
- ABC / NBC
- Years active
- 1948–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 247
- Genre
- music
Gordon MacRae hosting a full Broadway score in half an hour, orchestra and all, sponsored by the American railroads. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
46 dated broadcasts across 7 years on the air, with 1 year 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 1949, in original transmission order.
- 1. No No Nanette · 21 Nov 1949
- 2. The Mikado · 5 Dec 1949
- 3. Resalie · 17 Dec 1949
- 01
No No Nanette
21 Nov 1949 · 29 min
- 02
The Mikado
5 Dec 1949 · 29 min
- 03
Resalie
17 Dec 1949 · 29 min
- 04
The Merry Widow
23 Jan 1950 · 29 min
- 05
Madame Sherry
17 Apr 1950 · 29 min
- 06
Roberta
9 Oct 1950 · 29 min
- 07
Revenge With Music
23 Oct 1950 · 29 min
- 08
Show Boat
30 Oct 1950 · 29 min
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