+ The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio, and from 1949 to 1956 on American television. It was adapted into a 1948 play, Me and Molly, and a 1973 Broadway musical, Molly. The program was devised by writer-actress Gertrude Berg in 1928 and sold to the NBC radio network the following year. It was a domestic comedy featuring the home life of a Jewish family, supposedly located at 1038 East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx. In addition to writing the scripts and directing each episode, Berg starred as bighearted, lovingly meddlesome, and somewhat stereotypical matriarch Molly Goldberg. The show began as a portrait of Jewish tenement life before later evoking such growing pains as moving into a more suburban setting and struggling with assimilation while sustaining their roots. The Goldbergs began as a weekly 15-minute program called The Rise of the Goldbergs on November 20, 1929, going daily in 1931. The series moved to CBS in 1936 with the title shortened to The Goldbergs. Like other 15-minute comedies of the day, such as Amos 'n' Andy, Lum and Abner, Easy Aces, Vic and Sade and Myrt and Marge, The Goldbergs was a serial with running storylines. Berg's usual introduction—in character as Molly, hollering, "Yoo-hoo! Is anybody...?"—became a catchphrase. In the 1940s, this was followed by Bud Collyer warbling, "There she is, folks—that's Molly Goldberg, a woman with a place in every heart and a finger in every pie". When Gertrude Berg missed a couple of weeks due to illness, stations carrying the popular show were flooded with get-well mail. At the height of the show's popularity, Life wrote: "For millions of Americans, listening to The Goldbergs... has been a happy ritual akin to slipping on a pair of comfortable old shoes that never seem to wear out". Radio historians Frank Buxton and Bill Owen, in The Big Broadcast 1920–1950, noted that The Goldbergs, which they considered a soap opera as much as a comedy, "differed from most of the other 'soaps' in that its leading characters lived through relatively normal situations. Even though it was the story of a poor Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, it had identification for a wide segment of listeners". Of the 15-minute serial comedies, only Amos 'n' Andy enjoyed a longer radio life than The Goldbergs.-WikiPedia Click here to read more about Goldbergs, The
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| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
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| 05.13.1941 | sammy confesses all to jake 0954 |
+ Molly knows that all is not well between her son Sam and Sylvia and she believes that Sam does not... | |
| 05.14.1941 | ed and leah refuse to tell 0955 |
+ There’s nothing very dramatic about the sight of a plump plain looking woman walking down a sunn... | |
| 05.15.1941 | jake and molly know the truth 0956 |
+ Sammy Goldberg has informed his father Jake of everything he knows about Sylvia Allison, how impos... | |
| 05.16.1941 | sammy faces mr allison 0957 |
+ In the minds and hearts of the Goldbergs a great change has occurred. While Sylvia still thinks sh... | |
| 05.19.1941 | sammy faces sylvia 0958 |
+ Molly Jake and Rosie are waiting in The Allison’s house for Sammy to come back from telling Mr A... | |
| 05.20.1941 | molly rosalie jake talk 0959 |
+Sammy Goldberg has told both Sylvia and her father that he can’t marry her. Sammy gave no reason ... | |
| 05.21.1941 | sylvia and molly face each other 0960 |
+ Now that Jake and Molly know that Sammy has broken his engagement with Sylvia and exactly what he ... | |
| 05.22.1941 | sammy and sylvia talk 0961 |
+ The Goldbergs are packing ready to leave South Carolina for Lastonbury and home. They all know now... | |
| 05.23.1941 | molly chastises mr allison 0962 |
+ The Goldbergs are ready to set home for Lastonbury. Molly and Jake want nothing more than to leave... | |
| 05.26.1941 | leah comes to call 0963 |
+ Molly Goldberg is beginning to see something now that she never quite realised despite all her und... | |
| 05.27.1941 | molly upset waiting 0964 |
+ Molly Goldberg is not going to feel safe again until she and her family are home in Lastonbury. Me... | |
| 05.28.1941 | sylvia crashes car 0965 |
+ The Goldberg’s car stands in the driveway before the Allison’s house and the fgamily is ready ... | |
| 05.29.1941 | family learns of crash 0966 |
+ At last Sylvia Allison has been exposed in all her stupidity and selfishness. Her marriage to Samm... | |
| 05.30.1941 | at the hospital 0967 |
+ It was the memory of love and anguish the remembered ambition and shame that Sylvia Allison tried ... | |
| 06.02.1941 | worried thoughts 0968 |
+ A problem in morality and life is sometimes like a fragile vase and some people when they find the... | |
| 06.03.1941 | sammy expresses love 0969 |
+ When Sylvia Allison tried to solve the whole tragedy of her life by ending her life and Sammy’s ... | |
| 06.04.1941 | molly talks to sylvia 0970 |
+ You can live through anything. Sammy Goldberg has just learned that most of all you can live throu... | |
| 06.05.1941 | arranging trip home 0971 |
+ The Golbergs are going home. Back to Lastonbury and the peace and quiet of the town that Molly lov... | |
| 06.06.1941 | family differs on sylvia 0972 |
+ Molly Goldberg has made up her mind to deny her son nothing until he gets well and this means lett... | |
| 06.09.1941 | allison talks to his children 0973 | ||
| 06.10.1941 | doctors warning 0974 |
+ The family have gathered together in the hospital where Sammy is being ready to move back to Lasto... | |
| 06.11.1941 | back home in lastenberry 0975 |
+ The emotional upheaval that Sammy Goldberg went through because of Sylvia Allison is beginning to ... | |
| 06.12.1941 | sammy is despondent 0976 |
+ Back in Lastonbury the Goldbergs have finally settled down in their cottage but things are not the... | |
| 06.23.1941 | mollys question 0983 |
+ A doctor who is a psychiatrist is treating Sammy and Sylvia both. The treatment bewilders the pati... | |
| 06.24.1941 | sylvia is not well 0984 |
+ Dr Carter is treating Sylvia Allison and Sammy Goldberg for the very special illness they have in ... |
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