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Night Watch
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Night Watch

On the air · 1954 · Twice weekly

CBS

CBS · 1954–1955

Broadcasts

52

Cadence

Twice weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1954

The run

Network
CBS
Years active
1954–1955
Surviving broadcasts
52
Genre
documentary

Night Watch was a CBS documentary series first heard in 1954, in which reporter Donn Reed rode with Culver City police officers and recorded the calls of an actual night shift on tape. The surviving broadcasts 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: NightWatch

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air, with 2 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

JFMAMJJASOND
1954
1955
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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