Theatre Guild on the Air
ABC
ABC · 1945–1953
Broadcasts
250
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1945
The run
- Network
- ABC
- Years active
- 1945–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 250
- Genre
- drama
Theatre Guild on the Air ran from 1945 to 1953, presenting hour-long adaptations of Broadway plays and literary works under the Theatre Guild's banner for United States Steel, with casts including Helen Hayes, Rex Harrison and Gregory Peck. 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
59 dated broadcasts across 82 years on the air, with 76 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 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sign Off · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. Dead Air · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. The Long Silence · 3 Dec 2024
- 01
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 24 min
- 02
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 39 min
- 03
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 54 min
- 04
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 17 min
- 05
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 32 min
- 06
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 47 min
- 07
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 1h 2m
- 08
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 25 min
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