1952–1960 · ABC, then CBS

Whispering Streets

Daytime drama, still going, after television had taken the audience.

The daytime serial was the last thing network radio gave up. Whispering Streets ran until November 1960 — within a fortnight of the end of the whole tradition, when CBS cancelled the last of the soaps on the same afternoon. It is not a great series. It matters because it is late: this is what was still on the air in the years everyone assumes radio drama was already dead.

On radio

Radio from 3 November 1952

On television

No television version

The overlap

Ran to 25 November 1960, one of the last daytime dramas on American network radio

6 recordings · Chicago and New York

Surviving broadcasts held by the Internet Archive, including Armed Forces Radio and Television Service transcriptions. Public domain (US network broadcast, copyright not renewed); no Creative Commons or non-commercial terms apply.