2000 Plus
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
Radio
The Story of Dr. Kildare
Syndicated (Ziv)
Syndicated (Ziv) · 1950–1951
60 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1950
The run
- Network
- Syndicated (Ziv)
- Years active
- 1950–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 60
- Genre
- drama
Kildare was produced for syndication in 1949 at WMGM , New York. It was based on the popular Dr. Kildare movies of the late 1930's and early 1940's, and brought to the microphone the stars of that series, Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore .
1951 · 41950 · 8
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Rough but complete · 45 of 45
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_Dr_Kildare_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
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. Angela And Steven Kester · 1 Feb 1950
- 2. Barbara Lane, Dope Addict · 8 Mar 1950
- 3. Philip Van Court's Amnesia · 26 Apr 1950
- 01
Angela And Steven Kester
1 Feb 1950 · 27 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Dr_Kildare_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
Barbara Lane, Dope Addict
8 Mar 1950 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Dr_Kildare_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
Philip Van Court's Amnesia
26 Apr 1950 · 27 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Dr_Kildare_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Dick Brennan Steals $5,000
31 May 1950 · 26 min
Originally broadcast in syndication, 31 May 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 05
Dr Gillespie Almost Gets Engaged
29 Jun 1950 · 27 min
Originally broadcast in syndication, 29 June 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 06
Appendicitis Operation at Sea
17 Aug 1950 · 27 min
Originally broadcast in syndication, 17 August 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 07
Eddie Jenkins And The Arsonist
20 Oct 1950 · 26 min
Originally broadcast in syndication, 20 October 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
Arthur Morgan Needs Brain Surgery
8 Dec 1950 · 27 min
Originally broadcast in syndication, 8 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
26 Apr 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 26 Apr 1950.
Jeff Regan, Investigator
Broadcast 26 April 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Syndicated (Ziv)
Syndicated (Ziv) in 1950–1951
Other series the network carried while The Story of Dr. Kildare was on the air.
Same seasons
drama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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