Originally broadcast on Mutual, 1 August 1948. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Syndicated (Ziv)
- Years active
- 1948–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 45
- Genre
- suspense
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “TheUnexpected”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: TheUnexpected
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
6 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
1948
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. 0 · 11 Apr 1948
- 2. 0 · 9 May 1948
- 3. 0 · 6 Jun 1948
0
11 Apr 1948 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 April 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
0
9 May 1948 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 May 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
0
6 Jun 1948 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 June 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
0
4 Jul 1948 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 4 July 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
0
1 Aug 1948 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 August 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
0
12 Sep 1948 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 12 September 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Horoscope
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
King Champion
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
1 Aug 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 1 Aug 1948.
Broadcast 1 August 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Syndicated (Ziv)
Syndicated (Ziv) in 1948–1948
Other series the network carried while The Unexpected was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Unexpected
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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