The run
- Network
- CBC
- Years active
- 1996–1996
- Surviving broadcasts
- 13
- Genre
- detective
Becker, House Detective was produced for CBC Radio in 1996, a series of self-contained cases set in and around a single hotel.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
3 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 1996, in original transmission order.
- 1. 96-04-06 A View of Mount Von Relling · 6 Apr 1996
- 2. 96-04-13 The Wicked World of Mary Hunter · 13 Apr 1996
- 3. 96-04-20 Pearl · 20 Apr 1996
96-04-06 A View of Mount Von Relling
6 Apr 1996 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 6 April 1996. Restored from the Internet Archive.
96-04-13 The Wicked World of Mary Hunter
13 Apr 1996 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 13 April 1996. Restored from the Internet Archive.
96-04-20 Pearl
20 Apr 1996 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 20 April 1996. Restored from the Internet Archive.
96-04-27 Hotels Are My Life
27 Apr 1996 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 27 April 1996. Restored from the Internet Archive.
96-05-04 A Single Green Feather
4 May 1996 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 4 May 1996. Restored from the Internet Archive.
96-05-11 A Friend from Chicago
11 May 1996 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 11 May 1996. Restored from the Internet Archive.
96-05-18 An Expensive Bottle of Poison
18 May 1996 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 18 May 1996. Restored from the Internet Archive.
96-05-25 Only Poetry
25 May 1996 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 25 May 1996. Restored from the Internet Archive.
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 Becker, House Detective
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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