The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1951–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 10
- Genre
- detective
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector. Only a short run was made and ten broadcasts survive. These transfers are public domain and come from the Old Time Radio collections.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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
3 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Fabulous Divorce Payoff · 20 Jul 1951
- 2. The Vacant Lot Murder Case · 27 Jul 1951
- 3. The Golden Girl Murder Case · 3 Aug 1951
The Fabulous Divorce Payoff
20 Jul 1951 · 28 min
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector.
The Vacant Lot Murder Case
27 Jul 1951 · 28 min
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector.
The Golden Girl Murder Case
3 Aug 1951 · 29 min
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector.
The Defrosted Refrigerator Murder Case
10 Aug 1951 · 28 min
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector.
The High Style Murder Case
17 Aug 1951 · 28 min
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector.
The Mastermind Murder Case
24 Aug 1951 · 28 min
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector.
The Dark Cigarette Murder Case
31 Aug 1951 · 30 min
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector.
The Nickles And Dimes Murder Case
6 Sep 1951 · 30 min
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1951–1951
Other series the network carried while Inspector Thorne 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 Inspector Thorne
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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