The run
- Network
- CBC
- Years active
- 1978–1980
- Surviving broadcasts
- 17
- Genre
- detective
A CBC detective serial starring Neil Munro and Barry Morgan, following Inspector Quentin Nickles through cases on the railways and coasts of Canada.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
1 dated broadcasts across 3 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 1978, in original transmission order.
- 1. Murder on the CPR · 1 Jan 1978
- 2. The Ice Man · 1 Jan 1978
- 3. The Mystery of the Sea Witch · 1 Jan 1978
Murder on the CPR
1 Jan 1978 · 28 min
Broadcast on CBC between 1978 and 1980; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
The Ice Man
1 Jan 1978 · 27 min
Broadcast on CBC between 1978 and 1980; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
The Mystery of the Sea Witch
1 Jan 1978 · 27 min
Broadcast on CBC between 1978 and 1980; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
The Saddlebags Mystery
1 Jan 1978 · 27 min
Broadcast on CBC between 1978 and 1980; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
Deadman's Plot
1 Jan 1978 · 27 min
Broadcast on CBC between 1978 and 1980; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
Murder in the Museum
1 Jan 1978 · 27 min
Broadcast on CBC between 1978 and 1980; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
Keeper of the Castle
1 Jan 1978 · 27 min
Broadcast on CBC between 1978 and 1980; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
The Case of the Missing Mourner
1 Jan 1978 · 27 min
Broadcast on CBC between 1978 and 1980; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
Also on CBC
CBC in 1978–1980
Other series the network carried while The Investigations of Quentin Nickles was on the air.
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
Working in the tradition of The Investigations of Quentin Nickles
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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