The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1946–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 31
- Genre
- suspense
Strange Wills was a radio program syndicated in 1946. It was produced in Hollywood by Charles Michelson and Teleways Syndication. Stage and film star Warren William, who starred in the show, was also part of the creative team. The stories were said to be based on actual wills, with the names of those involved changed. The stories themselves were compiled by lawyer-turned-author Ken Krippene from his research over a ten-year period. These shows were quite different from other mystery dramas of the era. They would look at the complexities, dramas, and legal entanglements that arise from some wills. The wills would have…
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
8 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. (xx) Audition and Sales Presention · 15 Jan 1946
- 2. Alias Doctor Svengali · 15 Jun 1946
- 3. Prince of Broadway · 6 Jul 1946
(xx) Audition and Sales Presention
15 Jan 1946 · 30 min
Broadcast 15 January 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Alias Doctor Svengali
15 Jun 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 15 June 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Prince of Broadway
6 Jul 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 6 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
One Shining Night
20 Jul 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 20 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Girl from Shadowland
10 Aug 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 10 August 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Emeralds Come High
24 Aug 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 24 August 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
They Met in Monte Carlo
14 Sep 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 14 September 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
So Deep the Stream
28 Sep 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 28 September 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1946–1946
Other series the network carried while Strange Wills was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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 Strange Wills
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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