The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1944–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 35
- Genre
- detective
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Michael_Shayne”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
0 dated broadcasts across 10 years on the air, with 10 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Michael Shayne - 461105 - 01SH - Return to Huxley · Date unknown
- 2. Michael Shayne 47-10-14 The Case Of The Judge Is Shot · Date unknown
- 3. Case Of The Left-Handed Fan · Date unknown
Michael Shayne - 461105 - 01SH - Return to Huxley
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Michael Shayne 47-10-14 The Case Of The Judge Is Shot
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Case Of The Left-Handed Fan
Date unknown · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Michael Shayne 48-11-20 ep21 The Case Of The High Priced Twins
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Michael Shayne 48-12-30 ep27 The Phantom Neighbor
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Michael Shayne 53-04-03 Queen Of Narcotics Heroin
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Michael Shayne 48-07-15 ep04 Case Of Anthony Carrell
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Michael Shayne 48-08-06 ep07 Case Of The Phantom Gun
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1944–1953
Other series the network carried while Michael Shayne 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 Michael Shayne
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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