The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1947–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 38
- Genre
- drama
Real newspaper reporters' cases dramatised, with the reporter paid five hundred dollars and named on air. 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
10 dated broadcasts across 80 years on the air, with 78 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 18 Nov 2025
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 25 Nov 2025
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 2 Dec 2025
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 46 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 1m
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 24 min
The one everybody argues about.
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 39 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 54 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 17 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 32 min
The one everybody argues about.
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 47 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1947–1954
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