The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1932–1932
- Surviving broadcasts
- 19
- Genre
- drama
Magazine fiction turned into 1932 radio plays; among the earliest surviving syndicated drama. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
6 dated broadcasts across 95 years on the air, with 94 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Night Broadcast · 31 Mar 2026
- 2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 7 Apr 2026
- 3. Sign Off · 14 Apr 2026
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 37 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 52 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 15 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 30 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 45 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 1h 0m
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 23 min
The one everybody argues about.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 38 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1932–1932
Other series the network carried while Redbook Dramas was on the air.
Same seasons
drama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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