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(s) | 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 a 1948 play, Me and Molly; a 1950 film The Goldbergs, and a 1973 Broadway musical, Molly. It also briefly 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 would later do the Dondi comic strip.