The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1943–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 141
- Genre
- detective
North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
12 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 6 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 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. MMN 006 C F 006 Russian Restaurant Murder · 3 Feb 1943
- 2. ep041 The Norths Buy a Letter epaka The Letter · 6 Oct 1943
- 3. ep082 The Norths Get Wired for Sound epEnding Cut Story Complete · 19 Jul 1944
- 01
MMN 006 C F 006 Russian Restaurant Murder
3 Feb 1943 · 29 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
ep041 The Norths Buy a Letter epaka The Letter
6 Oct 1943 · 30 min
Broadcast 6 October 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
ep082 The Norths Get Wired for Sound epEnding Cut Story Complete
19 Jul 1944 · 23 min
Broadcast 19 July 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
ep108 Frisbie Proves His Point Frisby Klisby Times Square Murder
17 Jan 1945 · 30 min
Broadcast 17 January 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
ep348 Dime A Dance epaka Honey Jones AFRS
7 Mar 1950 · 24 min
Broadcast 7 March 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
Mr and Mrs North 52-02-26 ep438 The Death Trap [AFRS]
26 Feb 1952 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Mr_and_Mrs_North_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
MMN D B Die Hard is INVALID DATE
25 Mar 1952 · 26 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
MMN 516 D B 002 The Comic
7 Jul 1953 · 24 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1943–1955
Other series the network carried while Mr. and Mrs. North 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 Mr. and Mrs. North
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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