Eyes Aloft
West Coast networks
West Coast networks · 1942–1943
Broadcasts
18
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1942
The run
- Network
- West Coast networks
- Years active
- 1942–1943
- Surviving broadcasts
- 18
- Genre
- documentary
Civil defence drama for the Pacific coast: aircraft spotting, blackout discipline, and the fear of an invasion that never came. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
5 dated broadcasts across 85 years on the air, with 84 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Last Train Out · 7 Apr 2026
- 2. Night Broadcast · 14 Apr 2026
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 21 Apr 2026
- 01
Night Broadcast
4 Aug 2026 · 51 min
- 02
The Last Train Out
28 Jul 2026 · 14 min
- 03
Signal at Midnight
21 Jul 2026 · 29 min
- 04
A Room Above the Street
14 Jul 2026 · 44 min
- 05
The Long Silence
7 Jul 2026 · 59 min
- 06
Dead Air
30 Jun 2026 · 22 min
- 07
Sign Off
23 Jun 2026 · 37 min
- 08
The Case of the Missing Hour
16 Jun 2026 · 52 min
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