Mystery in the Air
NBC
NBC · 1945–1947
Broadcasts
8
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1945
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1945–1947
- Surviving broadcasts
- 8
- Genre
- horror
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. Lorre's unrestrained performances made the short second run one of the most-remembered horror series of the period. These recordings are public domain.
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
2 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air, with 2 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 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Great Barastro · 7 Aug 1947
- 2. The Lodger · 14 Aug 1947
- 3. The Horla · 21 Aug 1947
- 01
The Great Barastro
7 Aug 1947 · 25 min
- 02
The Lodger
14 Aug 1947 · 25 min
- 03
The Horla
21 Aug 1947 · 25 min
- 04
Beyond Good and Evil
28 Aug 1947 · 28 min
- 05
The Mask of Medusa
4 Sep 1947 · 29 min
- 06
The Queen of Spades
11 Sep 1947 · 27 min
- 07
The Black Cat
18 Sep 1947 · 25 min
- 08
Crime and Punishment
25 Sep 1947 · 25 min
Same night on the air
25 Sep 1947
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 25 Sep 1947.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1945–1947
Other series the network carried while Mystery in the Air was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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