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Mr. District Attorney
Mr. District Attorney
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Radio

Mr. District Attorney

NBC

NBC · 1939–1953

Broadcasts

185

Cadence

Weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1939

The run

Network
NBC
Years active
1939–1953
Surviving broadcasts
185
Genre
detective

DISTRICT ATTORNEY From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mr. District Attorney is a popular radio crime drama, produced by Samuel Bischoff, which aired on NBC and ABC from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed syndication through 1953).

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Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files

Clean transfer · 30 of 45Listenable · 14 of 45Rough but complete · 1 of 45

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_Mr_District_Attorney_Singles

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

12 dated broadcasts across 15 years on the air, with 8 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

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Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1939, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. The Milano Brothers · 3 Apr 1939
  2. 2. Case Of The Hijacked Worker · 19 Aug 1942
  3. 3. MDA 1945-02-14 (345) Case Of The Stolen Slot Machines · 14 Feb 1945
  • 01

    The Milano Brothers

    3 Apr 1939 · 14 min

    Broadcast 3 April 1939. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 02

    Case Of The Hijacked Worker

    19 Aug 1942 · 29 min

  • 03

    MDA 1945-02-14 (345) Case Of The Stolen Slot Machines

    14 Feb 1945 · 29 min

    Originally broadcast on NBC, 14 February 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

  • 04

    MDA 1948-05-26 (515) The Case of the Deadly Snowflake

    26 May 1948 · 29 min

    Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 May 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

  • 05

    The Case of the Money Machine

    11 Apr 1951 · 30 min

  • 06

    MDA 1952-08-24 (3) Case of the Man on the Ledge

    24 Aug 1952 · 25 min

    Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 August 1952. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

  • 07

    The Case of the Hungry Hobo

    10 Oct 1952 · 29 min

  • 08

    The Case of the Motorcycle Club Killer

    28 Nov 1952 · 26 min

Same night on the air

26 Apr 1953

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 26 Apr 1953.

Transmission

26 April

1953

My Son Jeep

My Son Jeep 14 Jeep Is Given Ten Dollars

Network

NBC

Slot

Sunday

Running time

29 min

Broadcast on Syndicated.

Internet ArchiveOTRR_My_Son_Jeep_SinglesCondition unmeasured

Transmission

26 April

1953

My Son Jeep

Jeep's Checking Account. NBC From Disc

Network

NBC

Slot

Sunday

Running time

29 min

Broadcast 26 April 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

Internet ArchiveOTRR_My_Son_Jeep_SinglesCondition unmeasured

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NBC in 1939–1953

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