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Broadcast 4 June 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Radio
Murder at Midnight
Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) · 1946–1946
91 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1946
The run
- Network
- Syndicated (transcription)
- Years active
- 1946–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 91
- Genre
- horror
MURDER AT MIDNIGHT Murder at Midnight was a transcribed program of macabre tales frequently featuring a supernatural twist. Produced in New York and distributed by World Broadcasting System, the series was the brainchild of Louis G. Cowan, the man behind Quiz Kids six years earlier. Fifty-two episodes were recorded from mid-April through December 1946. Robert Newman was hired as the show’s lead writer but a dozen other authors provided scripts during the program’s run. Among them were Joseph Ruscoll, Max Erlich and William Morwood. Murder at Midnight was directed by Anton M. Leder, and hosted by Raymond Morgan, who delivered the memorable opening lines over Charles Paul's organ theme. Los Angeles’ KFI was the first station to air the series but it would eventually be heard across the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Murder_at_Midnight_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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_Murder_at_Midnight_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
6 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
1946
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Man Who Was Death (Episode #02) · 30 Apr 1946
- 2. The Secret Of XR3 (Episode #03) · 9 May 1946
- 3. Death's Goblet (Episode #06) · 23 May 1946
- 01
The Man Who Was Death (Episode #02)
30 Apr 1946 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 30 April 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
The Secret Of XR3 (Episode #03)
9 May 1946 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 May 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Death's Goblet (Episode #06)
23 May 1946 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 May 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
The Dead Come Back (Episode #09)
28 May 1946 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 28 May 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Terror Out Of Space (Episode #10)
4 Jun 1946 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 4 June 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
The Man Who Died Yesterday (Episode #12)
11 Jun 1946 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 June 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Murder Is A Lonely Business (Episode #14)
16 Jun 1946 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 16 June 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
The Kabbala (Episode #16)
28 Jul 1946 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 28 July 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
4 Jun 1946
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 4 Jun 1946.
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Broadcast 4 June 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) in 1946–1946
Other series the network carried while Murder at Midnight was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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