The Goldbergs (broadcast series)
Original television series DVD-release cover | |
| Other names | The Rise of the Goldbergs |
|---|---|
| Genre | Daytime serial drama: Weekly (1929), Daily (1931) |
| Running time | 15 minutes (12-13 minutes excluding ads), 30 minutes (24-26 minutes excluding ads) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language | English |
| Syndicates | NBC, CBS |
| TV adaptations | The Goldbergs |
| Starring | Gertrude Berg Philip Loeb Harold J. Stone Robert H. Harris Eli Mintz Larry Robinson Arlene McQuade |
| Announcer | Clayton "Bud" Collyer |
| Created by | Gertrude Berg |
| Written by | Gertrude Berg, Cherney Berg |
| Directed by | Wess McKee, Henry Salinger |
| Original release | November 20, 1929 – 1956 |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Opening theme | Enrico Toselli's "Serenade" |
| Sponsored by | Duz Oxydol Pepsodent Sanka Vitamin Corp. of America RCA Rybutol Ekco Flint |
| Podcast | Stream Radio Program from Archive.org |
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 the 1948 play Me and Molly, the 1950 film The Goldbergs, and the 1973 Broadway musical Molly. It also spun off a comic strip from June 8, 1944, to December 21, 1945, with art by Irwin Hasen, a comic book artist who worked on various DC Comics titles and later did the Dondi comic strip.