I Love a Mystery
NBC / Mutual
NBC / Mutual · 1939–1952
Broadcasts
80
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1939
The run
- Network
- NBC / Mutual
- Years active
- 1939–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 80
- Genre
- mystery
I Love a Mystery was written by Carlton E. Morse and ran from 1939, following Jack, Doc and Reggie of the A-1 Detective Agency through serialised adventures broadcast in nightly instalments. These recordings stream from the Internet Archive.
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
20 dated broadcasts across 88 years on the air, with 86 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sign Off · 28 Jan 2025
- 2. Dead Air · 4 Feb 2025
- 3. The Long Silence · 11 Feb 2025
- 01
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 14 min
- 02
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 29 min
- 03
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 44 min
- 04
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 59 min
- 05
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 22 min
- 06
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 37 min
- 07
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 52 min
- 08
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 15 min
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