The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1945–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 75
- Genre
- detective
Mystery Is My Hobby was a syndicated detective series of the later 1940s starring Glen Langan as Barton Drake, a mystery writer who solved the cases he wrote about. It was recorded before a studio audience, unusual for a straight detective programme. These public-domain transfers 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
0 dated broadcasts across 7 years on the air, with 7 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Buried Treasure Map · Date unknown
- 2. Case of 65 Women · Date unknown
- 3. Death at Deadline · Date unknown
Buried Treasure Map
Date unknown · 23 min
Mystery Is My Hobby was a syndicated detective series of the later 1940s starring Glen Langan as Barton Drake, a mystery writer who solved the cases he wrote about.
Case of 65 Women
Date unknown · 24 min
Mystery Is My Hobby was a syndicated detective series of the later 1940s starring Glen Langan as Barton Drake, a mystery writer who solved the cases he wrote about.
Death at Deadline
Date unknown · 24 min
Mystery Is My Hobby was a syndicated detective series of the later 1940s starring Glen Langan as Barton Drake, a mystery writer who solved the cases he wrote about.
Faithless Wife
Date unknown · 22 min
Mystery Is My Hobby was a syndicated detective series of the later 1940s starring Glen Langan as Barton Drake, a mystery writer who solved the cases he wrote about.
Gold Prospector
Date unknown · 24 min
Mystery Is My Hobby was a syndicated detective series of the later 1940s starring Glen Langan as Barton Drake, a mystery writer who solved the cases he wrote about.
Kid Brownis Kod
Date unknown · 24 min
Mystery Is My Hobby was a syndicated detective series of the later 1940s starring Glen Langan as Barton Drake, a mystery writer who solved the cases he wrote about.
Millionaire Threatened
Date unknown · 24 min
Mystery Is My Hobby was a syndicated detective series of the later 1940s starring Glen Langan as Barton Drake, a mystery writer who solved the cases he wrote about.
Murderata Magic Show
Date unknown · 22 min
Mystery Is My Hobby was a syndicated detective series of the later 1940s starring Glen Langan as Barton Drake, a mystery writer who solved the cases he wrote about.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1945–1951
Other series the network carried while Mystery Is My Hobby 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 Mystery Is My Hobby
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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