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Comedy Fiction
Comedy Fiction
The Anderson Family.
Listen to The Anderson Family, a vintage radio situation comedy, in the Heritage Radio Vault archive. Explore family life through comic misunderstandings and everyday problems in the Anderson household. Discover surviving broadcasts for fans of classic radio sitcoms, domestic comedy and Old Time Radio collections. Browse the numbered programmes and choose an episode to begin.
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The Anderson Family: Programme Guide.
Oliver Anderson’s family life supplies another reason for a plan to go wrong. The Anderson Family turns ordinary domestic ambitions into a half-hour situation comedy built around a familiar household.
Broadcast history.
The syndicated programme circulated in the late 1940s and remained advertised in the 1954–1955 trade listings. Surviving transcription discs carry local airing annotations, which need not identify the dates when the performances were originally made.
Cast and creative team.
Dick Lane plays Oliver, supported by Louise Arthur and Walter Tetley. The contemporary advertisement independently confirms the principal company; a complete writer and director list for these transfers is not securely established.
Where to begin.
These available recordings offer an introduction to this collection. Their current publication dates are separate from historical broadcast dates.
An interesting detail.
OTRR documents the physical cleaning and transfer of discs once used by station WAYN. This makes the disc labels useful evidence of circulation while keeping local rebroadcast information separate from production.
Listening appeal.
Choose an available numbered programme such as Program 8 or Program 4. The numbers identify catalogue editions, while the domestic comedy generally supplies a separate situation in each.
Collection and date notes.
HRV lists 38 public recordings. The thirty-eight records are an available selection against a larger advertised package. Current podcast dates describe later archive publication, separately from original broadcast dates.
Sources.
Choose your next episode.
38 public recordings in this programme. Catalogue order is not a verified original broadcast chronology.
38 episodes available.
Questions about The Anderson Family.
Is The Andersons daytime serial necessarily the same show?
It is a separate programme from this syndicated comedy.
Does a date handwritten on a disc prove when the actors recorded it?
It can identify a local airing of an existing transcription.
