The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1973–1974
- Surviving broadcasts
- 132
- Genre
- suspense
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “rod-serling-hour-zero”; these recordings are 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 2 years on the air, with 2 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. Zero Hour Closed Circuit Press Conference · Date unknown
- 2. The Grand Prize · Date unknown
- 3. But I Wouldn't Want to Die There - Chapter 5 · Date unknown
Zero Hour Closed Circuit Press Conference
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Grand Prize
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
But I Wouldn't Want to Die There - Chapter 5
Date unknown · 31 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Face of the Foe - Chapter 4
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Fair's Fairs You Know
Date unknown · 21 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Desperate Witness Chapter 2
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Corpse Takes A Sleigh Ride
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Fourth of Forever - Chapter 4
Date unknown · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1973–1974
Other series the network carried while The Zero Hour was on the air.
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.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Zero Hour
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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