The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1948–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 28
- Genre
- theatre
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W. Junkin and broadcast sustaining — that is, unsponsored — from Radio City in New York. Freed from advertiser approval, it staged original and adapted drama with an emphasis on suspense and character. Twenty-eight episodes survive here in the public domain.
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 3 years on the air, with 3 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. Long Distance · Date unknown
- 2. Ground Floor Window · Date unknown
- 3. Of Unsound Mind · Date unknown
Long Distance
Date unknown · 27 min
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W.
Ground Floor Window
Date unknown · 28 min
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W.
Of Unsound Mind
Date unknown · 27 min
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W.
Whistle Daughter Whistle
Date unknown · 27 min
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W.
Special Delivery
Date unknown · 29 min
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W.
Fanny
Date unknown · 29 min
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W.
Betrayal
Date unknown · 28 min
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W.
King Of The Moon
Date unknown · 28 min
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1948–1950
Other series the network carried while NBC Radio City Playhouse was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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