Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 August 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1950–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 21
- Genre
- adventure
Ryan Ellett It was announced in May 1950 that Ilona Massey had been signed for the NBC summer series Top Secret . Massey was a Hungarian-born actress who had appeared on Broadway in the 1943 Ziegfeld Follies and in a handful of Hollywood features including Rosalie (1937), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and Holiday in Mexico (1947). Top Secret was slated to replace The Adventures of Christopher London in the Monday night 10:30 (EST) time slot. Both series featured tales of international intrigue, a genre quickly gaining favor in the post-War landscape. Top Secret was one of several summer replacement series on NBC…
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_Top_Secret_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
5 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
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. Night Train to Berlin · 12 Jun 1950
- 2. The Admiral's Strange Identity · 19 Jun 1950
- 3. A Package in Tangiers · 26 Jun 1950
Night Train to Berlin
12 Jun 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 12 June 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Admiral's Strange Identity
19 Jun 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 19 June 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
A Package in Tangiers
26 Jun 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 26 June 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Coming Disaster (Dramatic Portion Only)
16 Jul 1950 · 24 min
Broadcast 16 July 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Unknown Mission
30 Jul 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 30 July 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Disaster in London
6 Aug 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 6 August 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Church Without a Cross
20 Aug 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 20 August 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Confession (Dramatic Portion Only)
17 Sep 1950 · 27 min
Broadcast 17 September 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
6 Aug 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Aug 1950.
Broadcast 6 August 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1950–1950
Other series the network carried while Top Secret was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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