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I Love a Mystery
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I Love a Mystery

Broadcast · 1939 · Twice weekly

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

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: otr_iloveamystery

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 14 years on the air, with 14 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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1952
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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