Molle Mystery Theatre
NBC
NBC · 1943–1948
Broadcasts
116
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1943
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1943–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 116
- Genre
- suspense
MOLLE MYSTERY THEATER NBC's Mystery Theatre began airing with much fanfare on September 7, 1943. The series promised stories from the greatest classical and contemporary mystery authors -- and production values to match. It was aided from the outset by the addition of an 'annotator'-- as it was described in the 1940s --named Geoffrey Barn
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 6 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. Molle Homicide for Hannah · 28 Dec 1943
- 2. Molle The Man in the Velvet Hat AFRS MystPhs · 19 Dec 1944
- 3. Molle Beckoning Fair One · 5 Jun 1945
- 01
Molle Homicide for Hannah
28 Dec 1943 · 28 min
Broadcast 28 December 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Molle The Man in the Velvet Hat AFRS MystPhs
19 Dec 1944 · 29 min
Broadcast 19 December 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
Molle Beckoning Fair One
5 Jun 1945 · 28 min
Broadcast 5 June 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
Molle Who Took The Corpse AFRS MystPhs
2 Nov 1945 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 2 November 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 05
Molle Mathematics for Murder AFRS MystPhs
1 Feb 1946 · 24 min
Broadcast 1 February 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
The Creeper
29 Mar 1946 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 29 March 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 07
Molle Doctor and the Lunatic
26 Apr 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 26 April 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 08
Molle Female of the Species AFRS MystPhs
7 Jun 1946 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 June 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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NBC in 1943–1948
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