The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1949–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 13
- Genre
- drama
Courtroom drama from Erle Stanley Gardner's circle, arguing the evidence rather than the fistfight. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
4 dated broadcasts across 78 years on the air, with 77 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Signal at Midnight · 12 May 2026
- 2. The Last Train Out · 19 May 2026
- 3. Night Broadcast · 26 May 2026
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 25 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 40 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 55 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 18 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 33 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 48 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 1h 3m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 26 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1949–1952
Other series the network carried while A Life in Your Hands was on the air.
Same seasons
drama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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