Mystery in the Air
Mystery in the Air was broadcast on NBC in 1945 and again in the summer of 1947, when Peter Lorre starred in adaptations of Poe, Dickens, Maupassant and Gogol.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 77
- Genre
- detective
CASEY, CRIME PHOTOGRAPHER This series went on the air on July 7, 1943 and lasted until April 22, 1955. A total of 431 episodes were broadcast. Casey, Crime Photographer had more history than substance. It was a B-grade radio detective on a par perhaps with The Adventures of the Falcon , better than Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons , but lacking the style and polish of The Adventures of Sam Spade . Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask , under the watchful eyes of then-editor Joseph Shaw, Flashgun Casey was the originally fast-talking crime photographer, a big, hot-tempered Boston Mick with a gift for gab and a nose for trouble. No "artiste", Casey kept a bottle of hooch and a .38 in his desk drawer, and boasted of being able to put a "slug where he aimed" and having "two big fists he knew how to use". He appeared in several short stories in the pulps and several novels. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Casey_Crime_Photographer_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1949 · 21948 · 21947 · 61946 · 11943 · 1
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Casey_Crime_Photographer_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 6 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. Casey 43-07-07 1 The Case of the Switched Plates [Flash-Gun Casey] · 7 Jul 1943
- 2. Casey 46-09-19 151 The Duke of Skid Row · 19 Sep 1946
- 3. Casey 47-03-20 177 The Demon Miner · 20 Mar 1947
- 01
Casey 43-07-07 1 The Case of the Switched Plates [Flash-Gun Casey]
7 Jul 1943 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Casey 46-09-19 151 The Duke of Skid Row
19 Sep 1946 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Casey 47-03-20 177 The Demon Miner
20 Mar 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Casey 47-07-03 192 Acquitted
3 Jul 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Casey 47-08-14 198 The Chivalrous Gunman
14 Aug 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Casey 47-09-25 204 The Treasure Cave
25 Sep 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Casey 47-11-06 210 TCOT Blonde Lipstick
6 Nov 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Casey 47-12-18 216 The Life of the Party
18 Dec 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
25 Sep 1947
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 25 Sep 1947.
Crime Club
Broadcast 25 September 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Burns & Allen
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 25 September 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Casey, Crime Photographer 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 Casey, Crime Photographer
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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