The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1936–1936
- Surviving broadcasts
- 12
- Genre
- crime
1936 police dramatisations — the crime show before the crime show had a formula. 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
4 dated broadcasts across 91 years on the air, with 90 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. Sign Off · 19 May 2026
- 2. Dead Air · 26 May 2026
- 3. The Long Silence · 2 Jun 2026
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 14 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 29 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 44 min
The one everybody argues about.
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 59 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 22 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 37 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 52 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 15 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1936–1936
Other series the network carried while In the Name of the Law was on the air.
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