The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1951–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 14
- Genre
- detective
Mr. Moto ran on NBC in 1951, adapting John P. Marquand's series of novels about the quiet, courteous investigator. James Monks played Moto. Only a short run survives; these transfers are public domain and come from the Old Time Radio archives.
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 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. Force Called X 07 · 20 May 1951
- 2. The Smoke Screen · 27 May 1951
- 3. Blackmail · 3 Jun 1951
Force Called X 07
20 May 1951 · 25 min
Mr.
The Smoke Screen
27 May 1951 · 29 min
Mr.
Blackmail
3 Jun 1951 · 25 min
Mr.
The Dead Land
10 Jun 1951 · 30 min
Mr.
The Kuriloff Papers West Coast
13 Jun 1951 · 30 min
Mr.
The Bazaloff Papers East Coast
17 Jun 1951 · 28 min
Mr.
The Victim
24 Jun 1951 · 27 min
Mr.
Project 77
1 Jul 1951 · 29 min
Mr.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1951–1951
Other series the network carried while Mr. Moto 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. Moto
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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