
Inspector Thorne
NBC
NBC · 1951–1951
Broadcasts
10
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1951
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1951–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 10
- Genre
- detective
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector. Only a short run was made and ten broadcasts survive. These transfers are public domain and come from the Old Time Radio collections.
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
3 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Fabulous Divorce Payoff · 20 Jul 1951
- 2. The Vacant Lot Murder Case · 27 Jul 1951
- 3. The Golden Girl Murder Case · 3 Aug 1951
- 01
The Fabulous Divorce Payoff
20 Jul 1951 · 28 min
- 02
The Vacant Lot Murder Case
27 Jul 1951 · 28 min
- 03
The Golden Girl Murder Case
3 Aug 1951 · 29 min
- 04
The Defrosted Refrigerator Murder Case
10 Aug 1951 · 28 min
- 05
The High Style Murder Case
17 Aug 1951 · 28 min
- 06
The Mastermind Murder Case
24 Aug 1951 · 28 min
- 07
The Dark Cigarette Murder Case
31 Aug 1951 · 30 min
- 08
The Nickles And Dimes Murder Case
6 Sep 1951 · 30 min
Also on NBC
NBC in 1951–1951
Other series the network carried while Inspector Thorne was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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