Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1943–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 68
- 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.
1955 · 11954 · 131953 · 231952 · 3
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 33 of 40Rough but complete · 7 of 40
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Mr_and_Mrs_North_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
17 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 9 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. Death in the Dark · 25 Mar 1952
- 2. The Last Escape · 1 Apr 1952
- 3. Fool's Gold · 14 Oct 1952
Deadly Doll
21 Mar 1955 · 21 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 21 March 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Nightwalk - Pt 5 of 6
8 Oct 1954 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 8 October 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Nightwalk - Pt 4 of 6
7 Oct 1954 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 7 October 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Nightwalk - Pt 3 of 6
6 Oct 1954 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 October 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Nightwalk - Pt 2 of 6
5 Oct 1954 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 5 October 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Nightwalk - Pt 1 of 6
4 Oct 1954 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 October 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Operation Murder
19 Sep 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 19 September 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Two Deaths For A Hero
25 May 1954 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 May 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
1 Apr 1952
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 1 Apr 1952.
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 1 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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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