Dimension X
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 July 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1947–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 216
- Genre
- noir
ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE Elements of mystery have always been represented in literature, but the detective story didn't arrive on the scene until the mid 1800's. Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue , published in 1841, was the first.
1950 · 51949 · 51948 · 11947 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 3 of 40Listenable · 37 of 40
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Philip_Marlowe_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. Who Shot Waldo · 12 Jun 1947
- 2. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe 1948-10-24 (005) · 24 Oct 1948
- 3. The Lonesome Reunion · 12 Feb 1949
- 01
Who Shot Waldo
12 Jun 1947 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Philip_Marlowe_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe 1948-10-24 (005)
24 Oct 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 24 October 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
The Lonesome Reunion
12 Feb 1949 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Philip_Marlowe_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe The Cloak of Kamehameha
23 Apr 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 23 April 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
The Key Man
25 Jun 1949 · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Philip_Marlowe_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe 1949-09-03 (048)
3 Sep 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 3 September 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe 1949-10-29 (056)
29 Oct 1949 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 29 October 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
The Hairpin Turn
28 Jan 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Philip_Marlowe_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
28 Jul 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 28 Jul 1950.
Backstage Wife
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Guiding Light
Guiding Light is the longest running drama of all time. It began as a 15 minute old time radio show in 1937, running until 1947. It then ran through its metamorphosis into a television drama until 1956. In 1952, it became a television show and the radio and television programs ran concurrently for some time. Today this television show is still running. It was originally sponsored by Procter and Gamble, who put the "soap" in soap opera. The brainchild of Irna Phillips, this show is based on her life experiences. When she was 19, an unmarried Irna gave birth to a still-born child. At this time,
Also on CBS
CBS in 1947–1951
Other series the network carried while The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was on the air.
Same seasons
noir on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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