Originally broadcast on Mutual, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1951–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 44
- Genre
- detective
Named after the then famous telephone number of Scotland Yard -- the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Force, Whitehall 1212 was a weekly crime drama radio show. It ran from November 18, 1951 until September 28, 1952.
1952 · 381951 · 6
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 16 of 44Listenable · 25 of 44Rough but complete · 3 of 44
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_Whitehall_1212_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1951
1952
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
- 1. Whitehall 1212 This is Scotland Yard · 13 Nov 1951
- 2. The Blitz Murder Case · 18 Nov 1951
- 3. The Fonier Case · 2 Dec 1951
The Case Of The Electric Torch
28 Sep 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Inoperative Wireless
21 Sep 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Winchester Bottles
14 Sep 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 14 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Eaton Brothers
7 Sep 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Madden Family
31 Aug 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 31 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Murder of Lady Madge Johnson
24 Aug 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of Dougal Henry
17 Aug 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 17 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Missing Clarinet
10 Aug 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 10 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
7 Sep 1952
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 7 Sep 1952.
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1951–1952
Other series the network carried while Whitehall 1212 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 Whitehall 1212
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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