Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 October 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1950–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 22
- Genre
- adventure
Cloak and Dagger opened over the NBC network on May 7, 1950. It had a short run through the Summer on Sundays, changing to Fridays after its Summer run. The last show aired October 22, 1950. The series told fictional stories of OSS agents during World War II who took dangerous missions behind enemy lines, knowing they may never return ali
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 21 of 22Rough but complete · 1 of 22
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_Cloak_and_Dagger_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
6 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. File 2218 · 7 May 1950
- 2. The Trojan Horse · 28 May 1950
- 3. The Brenner Pass Story · 4 Jun 1950
Windfall
22 Oct 1950 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 October 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Wine of Freedom
15 Oct 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 15 October 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Delay on Route
6 Oct 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 October 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Last Mission
29 Sep 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 29 September 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Operation Sellout
22 Sep 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 September 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Seeds of Doubt
15 Sep 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 15 September 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Over Ground Railroad
8 Sep 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 8 September 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
War of Words
1 Sep 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 September 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
15 Oct 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 15 Oct 1950.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 15 October 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1950–1950
Other series the network carried while Cloak and Dagger was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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