The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1948–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 11
- Genre
- talk
Teenagers arguing etiquette and conduct on air, in front of an adult panel. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
4 dated broadcasts across 79 years on the air, with 78 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. The Long Silence · 26 May 2026
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 2 Jun 2026
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 9 Jun 2026
Signal at Midnight
4 Aug 2026 · 45 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
A Room Above the Street
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Long Silence
21 Jul 2026 · 23 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
14 Jul 2026 · 38 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
7 Jul 2026 · 53 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Case of the Missing Hour
30 Jun 2026 · 16 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Night Broadcast
23 Jun 2026 · 31 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Last Train Out
16 Jun 2026 · 46 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1948–1948
Other series the network carried while Mind Your Manners was on the air.
Same seasons
talk on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The roundtable of experts
Put clever people around one microphone, give them a question from a listener, and let the disagreement be the entertainment. Information Please and Town Meeting invented the format.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Mind Your Manners
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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