The final broadcast (over DuMont) was on 19 October 1954, and then the series went into syndication.
The live sitcom debuted on CBS on 10 January 1949 and remained on the Monday night line up at different times until June 1951. The Red Scare blacklisting (primarily affecting co-star Philip Loeb, ultimately with tragic results; forced off the show by nervous sponsors, he sank into a depression and committed suicide in 1955) coincided with a production contract expiration and the popular series ended up on NBC for two seasons through September, 1953 (in 1952 it was shown as a 15 minute program on Mondays-Wednesdays and Fridays, reverting to a half-hour program for the remainder of the run). The show then jumped briefly to the financially strapped DuMont Network (Apr-Oct 1954) on Tuesday nights as a half-hour show. This last DuMont cast would carry on for an additional season in first run syndication. Around 20 of the DuMont episodes survive, along with all of the "filmed" syndicated episodes.
Actress Betty Walker, who played Mrs. Bertha Kramer, was in reality only in her early 20s when filming the show. Her raspy voice allowed her to play a much older character.
In 1950, Gertrude Berg won the first best actress Emmy award for her role as Molly.
"The Goldbergs" was so popular that it spent over 15 years as a radio show, beginning on NBC and then moving to CBS.. In the mid-1940s, it briefly became a comic strip. When the radio show ended, Gertrude Berg adapted it into a Broadway play "Me and Molly". The television series started in 1948. Like many popular radio programs and early television series, a feature film tie-in, "The Goldbergs" (1950) (aka "Molly") was released. The television series started on CBS, then moved to NBC and finally to the now defunct DuMont network. Approximately seven years after Gertrude Berg's passing in 1966, the show was resurrected as the Broadway musical "Molly". The surviving episodes of the television series have undergone restoration. In 2023, the episodes continue to be run on the JLTV cable network and have been made available on home video.