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Right to Happiness

Networks
NBC (as its archives name them)
Heard
1942
Episodes
5

(05 Episodes) "The Right to Happiness," an American Old Time Radio Soap Opera created by Irna Phillips, was broadcasted across the country from its creation in 1939 until its demise in 1960. Irna Phillips creation was originally a spinoff for Guiding Light character Rose Kransky.

More about it

The show premiered on NBC's Blue Network on Oct 16, 1939. However Rose seems to have kept her ties the Five Points suburb of Chicago, and the show soon began to revolve around the loves and trials of Carolyn Allen. Carolyn was the daughter of a magazine editor.

The show moved to New York when Phillips sold the program to an advertising agency. Her search for Happiness would take Carolyn through four husbands and a jail sentence. Carolyn had a companion through many years of the program

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Opens w Newspaper Venders Shouting

    · 17 min

  2. I Am The Past

    · 9:59

  3. RtoH - At Times Seemingly Pleasant & Friendly

    No date given · 14 min

  4. RtoH - Considering Oneself is not the way to True Contentment

    No date given · 13 min

  5. RtoH - There's an Infinite Tenderness

    No date given · 13 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. Right to Happiness 05 Eps

    Old Time Radio · 5 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

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