The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1955–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 13
- Genre
- drama
Service-club sponsored drama from 1955, produced for local stations. 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
4 dated broadcasts across 72 years on the air, with 71 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. Sign Off · 12 May 2026
- 2. Dead Air · 19 May 2026
- 3. The Long Silence · 26 May 2026
Signal at Midnight
4 Aug 2026 · 45 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
A Room Above the Street
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Long Silence
21 Jul 2026 · 23 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
14 Jul 2026 · 38 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
7 Jul 2026 · 53 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Case of the Missing Hour
30 Jun 2026 · 16 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Night Broadcast
23 Jun 2026 · 31 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Last Train Out
16 Jun 2026 · 46 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1955–1955
Other series the network carried while Rotary Golden Theater 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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