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Crime Club
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Radio

Crime Club

Mutual

Mutual · 1946–1947

Broadcasts

62

Cadence

Seasonal

Rated

PG

Since

1946

The run

Network
Mutual
Years active
1946–1947
Surviving broadcasts
62
Genre
suspense

The Crime Club aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System as a half-hour weekly radio series, beginning on December 2, 1946 and continuing until October 16, 1947, a run of 47 episodes. It aired on Mondays at 8 p.m. through December and then on Thursdays at 10 p.m.

1947 · 111946 · 1

Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files

Listenable · 16 of 31Rough but complete · 15 of 31

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_Crime_Club_Singles

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

8 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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1946
1947
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. Death Blew out the Match · 2 Dec 1946
  2. 2. The Crime Club ep16 Fear Came First · 13 Mar 1947
  3. 3. The Sun Is a Witness · 3 Apr 1947
  • 01

    Death Blew out the Match

    2 Dec 1946 · 29 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 2 December 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 02

    The Crime Club ep16 Fear Came First

    13 Mar 1947 · 30 min

    Broadcast 13 March 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 03

    The Sun Is a Witness

    3 Apr 1947 · 29 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 3 April 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 04

    The Crime Club ep22 The Topaz Flower

    24 Apr 1947 · 29 min

    Broadcast 24 April 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 05

    Murder On Margin

    22 May 1947 · 26 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 22 May 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 06

    The Crime Club ep28 Murder Rents a Room

    5 Jun 1947 · 29 min

    Broadcast 5 June 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 07

    Death Never Doubles

    26 Jun 1947 · 28 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 26 June 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 08

    The Crime Club ep33 Coney Island Nocturne

    10 Jul 1947 · 29 min

    Broadcast 10 July 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

Same night on the air

25 Sep 1947

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 25 Sep 1947.

Transmission

25 September

1947

Mystery in the Air

Crime and Punishment

Network

NBC

Slot

Thursday

Running time

25 min

Mystery in the Air was broadcast on NBC in 1945 and again in the summer of 1947, when Peter Lorre starred in adaptations of Poe, Dickens, Maupassant and Gogol.

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Transmission

25 September

1947

Burns & Allen

B&A 1947-09-25 Beating the 1C2

Network

CBS / NBC

Slot

Thursday

Running time

22 min

Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 25 September 1947.

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Transmission

25 September

1947

Casey, Crime Photographer

Casey 47-09-25 204 The Treasure Cave

Network

CBS

Slot

Thursday

Running time

29 min

Broadcast on Syndicated.

Internet ArchiveOTRR_Casey_Crime_Photographer_SinglesCondition unmeasured

Also on Mutual

Mutual in 1946–1947

Other series the network carried while Crime Club was on the air.

Same seasons

suspense on the air then

Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.

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