Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
ABC / NBC
ABC / NBC · 1952–1955
Broadcasts
34
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1952
The run
- Network
- ABC / NBC
- Years active
- 1952–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 34
- Genre
- science fiction
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet was heard on ABC and later NBC between 1952 and 1955, running alongside the television series and drawing on Robert A. Heinlein's Space Cadet. The surviving transfers 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
9 dated broadcasts across 75 years on the air, with 73 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Case of the Missing Hour · 16 Dec 2025
- 2. Sign Off · 23 Dec 2025
- 3. Dead Air · 30 Dec 2025
- 01
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 45 min
- 02
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
- 03
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 23 min
- 04
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 38 min
- 05
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 53 min
- 06
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 16 min
- 07
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 31 min
- 08
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 46 min
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ABC / NBC in 1952–1955
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