The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1957–1957
- Surviving broadcasts
- 13
- Genre
- detective
Case for Dr. Morelle was a 13-episode series which ran weekly in 1957 on the BBC Light Programme from April 23 to July 16. According to the author Ernest Dudley, the character began life in 1940 during World War Two air raids, as he was trying to think up a "different" kind of detective while also providing a comic role for the actress Jane Grahame, who was also his wife. The result, originally heard on the radio show Monday Night at Eight, involved the acerbic criminal psychologist Dr. Morelle and his eager-but-less-than-helpful secretary Miss Frayle. In the 1957 series, Dr. Morelle was played by the…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
4 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 1957, in original transmission order.
- 1. Alarm Call · 23 Apr 1957
- 2. Confession of Guilt · 30 Apr 1957
- 3. Threat to Kill · 7 May 1957
Alarm Call
23 Apr 1957 · 29 min
Broadcast 23 April 1957. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Confession of Guilt
30 Apr 1957 · 28 min
Broadcast 30 April 1957. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Threat to Kill
7 May 1957 · 29 min
Broadcast 7 May 1957. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Sleepwalker
14 May 1957 · 30 min
Broadcast 14 May 1957. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Blackmailer
21 May 1957 · 28 min
Broadcast 21 May 1957. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Voice in the Night
28 May 1957 · 28 min
Broadcast 28 May 1957. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Act of Violence
11 Jun 1957 · 28 min
Broadcast 11 June 1957. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Black Ruby
18 Jun 1957 · 27 min
Broadcast 18 June 1957. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1957–1957
Other series the network carried while A Case For Dr Morelle was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of A Case For Dr Morelle
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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