The Old Gold Comedy Theater was an NBC attempt to replicate the success of CBS’ Lux Radio Theatre. It debuted on October 29th, 1944. Silent film star and producer Harold Lloyd introduced condensations of movie comedies. This film happened to be his own.

NBC programmed the series Sunday nights at 10:30PM for east coast audiences. Although ratings peaked at 12.4 in December, by April the ratings shrunk to under 7.

It was cancelled after June 10th, 1945.