The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1954–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 21
- Genre
- crime
Henry Kane's Manhattan private eye, written with more wisecrack than most. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
6 dated broadcasts across 73 years on the air, with 72 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 · 17 Mar 2026
- 2. The Last Train Out · 24 Mar 2026
- 3. Night Broadcast · 31 Mar 2026
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 1h 5m
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 28 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 43 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 58 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 21 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 36 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 51 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 14 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1954–1954
Other series the network carried while Crime and Peter Chambers was on the air.
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