Transmission
20 May
1951
Mr. Moto
Force Called X 07
Network
NBC
Slot
Sunday
Running time
25 min
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The almanac of the air
On This Day
Every restored broadcast carries the date it actually went out. Choose a calendar day and the archive answers with the programmes heard on that day — 1938, 1944, 1952 — one after another.
2 surviving broadcasts
18 August
Heard across 2 different years, 1942 to 1944.
- 1942MC
- 1944IPT
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Transmission
11 August
1942
Murder Clinic
Governor Of Cape Haitian
Network
Mutual
Slot
Tuesday
Running time
28 min
Murder Clinic was a WOR-Mutual series of 1942–43 which adapted one story a week from a well-known mystery author, drawing on the great fictional detectives in rotation rather than keeping a single lead.
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Transmission
7 August
1947
Mystery in the Air
The Great Barastro
Network
NBC
Slot
Thursday
Running time
25 min
Mystery in the Air was broadcast on NBC in 1945 and again in the summer of 1947, when Peter Lorre starred in adaptations of Poe, Dickens, Maupassant and Gogol.
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Transmission
Undated
Mystery Is My Hobby
Buried Treasure Map
Network
Syndicated
Running time
23 min
Mystery Is My Hobby was a syndicated detective series of the later 1940s starring Glen Langan as Barton Drake, a mystery writer who solved the cases he wrote about.
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Transmission
Undated
NBC Radio City Playhouse
Long Distance
Network
NBC
Running time
27 min
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W.
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Transmission
25 April
1943
Radio Reader's Digest
Two for a Penny
Network
CBS
Slot
Sunday
Running time
27 min
Radio Reader's Digest was broadcast on CBS from 1942 to 1948, sponsored by the Hallmark greeting-card company and later by Campbell.
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Transmission
4 December
1947
Sky King
Message in Code
Network
ABC / Mutual
Slot
Thursday
Running time
29 min
Sky King began on ABC in 1946 and moved to Mutual, following Schuyler "Sky" King, an Arizona rancher and former navy flyer who used his aircraft the Songbird to run down rustlers and fugitives.
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Transmission
18 April
1942
Stars Over Hollywood
Southern Hospitality
Network
CBS
Slot
Saturday
Running time
26 min
Stars Over Hollywood was broadcast on CBS from May 1941 to September 1954, one of the longest-running Saturday-morning dramatic anthologies.
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Transmission
8 March
1937
True Detective Mysteries
Rattlesnake Barefoot Bride
Network
Mutual
Slot
Monday
Running time
26 min
True Detective Mysteries dramatised cases taken from True Detective magazine, broadcast on Mutual from 1937 and later sponsored by Listerine and Oh Henry.
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Transmission
29 March
1950
2000 Plus
Men From Mars
Network
Mutual
Slot
Wednesday
Running time
29 min
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
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Transmission
15 May
1948
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Ballot Box Mystery
Network
NBC
Slot
Saturday
Running time
28 min
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell brought Gilbert Patten's dime-novel hero — the clean-living Yale sportsman — to NBC, first in the mid-1930s and again in a Saturday-morning run from 1946 to 1949 with Lawson Zerbe in the title role.
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Transmission
Undated
The Casebook of Gregory Hood
Case Of Three Silver Pecos
Network
Mutual
Running time
28 min
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s.
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