Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 March 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1950–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 25
- Genre
- detective
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE Nero Wolfe first appeared on radio on July 5, 1943 on the NBC Blue Network in The Adventures Of Nero Wolfe . This series didn't last long and starred Santos Ortega as Wolfe and Luis Van Rooten as Archie.
1951 · 151950 · 10
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 25 of 25
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_New_Adventures_of_Nero_Wolfe_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
7 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. Stamped For Murder · 20 Oct 1950
- 2. The Care Worn Cuff · 27 Oct 1950
- 3. Dear Dead Lady · 3 Nov 1950
Room 304
27 Apr 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 April 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Lost Heir
20 Apr 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 20 April 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
A Slight Case Of Perjury
6 Apr 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 April 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Tell-Tale Ribbon
30 Mar 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 March 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Final Page
23 Mar 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 March 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Midnight Ride
16 Mar 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 March 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Disappearing Diamonds
9 Mar 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 March 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Hasty Will
2 Mar 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 2 March 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
30 Mar 1951
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 30 Mar 1951.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 30 March 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 30 March 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1950–1951
Other series the network carried while The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe was on the air.
Same seasons
detective 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
Working in the tradition of The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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