The Goldbergs
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The Goldbergs was a situation comedy which ran on USA radio from 1929 to 1947 and then on television from 1949 to 1956.
The program was devised by writer 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 in New York City; in addition to writing the scripts Berg starred in the series.
The show began as a weekly 15 minute program called The Rise of the Goldbergs on November 20, 1929. In 1931 became a daily serial called The Goldbergs.
The television series ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1951 and co-starred Philip Loeb as Jake Goldberg. He and Gertrude Berg reprised their roles in a 1950 film of the same name. In 1950, Philip Loeb was blacklisted and pressure was placed on Gertrude Berg, the owner of the show, to fire him. When she refused, CBS dropped it from their schedule. However, a few months later the DuMont Television Network picked up the series for the 1952-53 season but did so without Loeb who was replaced by another actor, Harold Stone. In 1954, the show moved to the NBC network.
