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
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1946–1947
- Surviving broadcasts
- 62
- Genre
- suspense
The Crime Club aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System as a half-hour weekly radio series, beginning on December 2, 1946 and continuing until October 16, 1947, a run of 47 episodes. It aired on Mondays at 8 p.m. through December and then on Thursdays at 10 p.m.
1947 · 111946 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 16 of 31Rough but complete · 15 of 31
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_Crime_Club_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
8 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1946
1947
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. Death Blew out the Match · 2 Dec 1946
- 2. The Crime Club ep16 Fear Came First · 13 Mar 1947
- 3. The Sun Is a Witness · 3 Apr 1947
- 01
Death Blew out the Match
2 Dec 1946 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 2 December 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 02
The Crime Club ep16 Fear Came First
13 Mar 1947 · 30 min
Broadcast 13 March 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
The Sun Is a Witness
3 Apr 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 3 April 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 04
The Crime Club ep22 The Topaz Flower
24 Apr 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 24 April 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
Murder On Margin
22 May 1947 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 22 May 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 06
The Crime Club ep28 Murder Rents a Room
5 Jun 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 5 June 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
Death Never Doubles
26 Jun 1947 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 26 June 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
The Crime Club ep33 Coney Island Nocturne
10 Jul 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 10 July 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
25 Sep 1947
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 25 Sep 1947.
Burns & Allen
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 25 September 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Casey, Crime Photographer
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1946–1947
Other series the network carried while Crime Club was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Crime Club
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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