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The Marriage

Networks
NBC (as its archives name them)
Heard
1952–1954
Episodes
24

THE MARRIAGE

More about it

The Marriage was a light affair, distinguished mainly as a vehicle for Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Cronyn's character, Ben Marriott, was a New York lawyer. His wife, Liz, had formerly been a buyer in a New York department store. Often plots revolved around her attempt to adjust to life as "just a housewife", or focused on problems with their children. They alternated viewpoints, Cronyn narrating one week, Tandy the next. The Marriage, broadcast on the NBC network Sunday nights at 7:30 pm from October 4, 1953 until March 28, 1954 was based on the play The Four Poster which Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy had previously appeared on Broadway. From the Old Time Radio Researcher's Group. See "Note" Section below for more information on the OTRR.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. How They Met and Married

    · 29 min

  2. PTA 5th Grade Volunteer

    · No. 1 · 30 min

  3. Emily's First Formal

    · No. 3 · 30 min

  4. An Old Friend of Liz's Is in Town

    · No. 4 · 30 min

  5. Ben's Shady Client

    · No. 6 · 25 min

  6. Liz Fights for a Traffic Ticket

    · No. 7 · 26 min

  7. Fred Hertzell Visits from Kansas

    · No. 8 · 24 min

  8. Emily Pledges Omega Chi

    · No. 9 · 24 min

  9. Liz Takes up Painting

    · No. 10 · 24 min

  10. Ben Represents Stan in Juvenile Court

    · No. 11 · 24 min

  11. Liz Gets a Christmas Job at the Perfume Counter

    · No. 12 · 24 min

  12. Ben and Liz Recall How They First Met

    · No. 13 · 24 min

  13. Liz Paints the Apartment and Ben Meets Judy

    · No. 14 · 24 min

  14. Ben and Liz Spend the Weekend in Vermont

    · No. 15 · 24 min

  15. The Grandfather Clock

    · No. 16 · 25 min

  16. Liz Gets to Know Bobby Logan, Emily's Boyfriend

    · No. 17 · 25 min

  17. Liz Decides to Get a Job

    · No. 18 · 24 min

  18. Ben's Father Comes for a Three Week Visit

    · No. 19 · 24 min

  19. Ben's Law Firm Is Dissolving

    · No. 20 · 24 min

  20. Is Liz Pregnant

    · No. 22 · 24 min

  21. Filling out Income Tax Forms

    · No. 23 · 25 min

  22. Individuality

    · No. 24 · 24 min

  23. Emily Worships Her Father

    · No. 25 · 24 min

  24. Ben Arranges a Date for Emily with Herold

    · No. 26 · 24 min

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. The Marriage - Single Episodes

    Old Time Radio Researchers · Old Time Radio Researchers Group · 24 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-ND 2.5: CC BY-NC-ND 2.5, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.

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