Night Watch
CBS
CBS · 1954–1955
Broadcasts
52
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1954
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1954–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- documentary
Night Watch was a CBS documentary series first heard in 1954, in which reporter Donn Reed rode with Culver City police officers and recorded the calls of an actual night shift on tape. The surviving broadcasts stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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
13 dated broadcasts across 73 years on the air, with 71 years 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sign Off · 12 Aug 2025
- 2. Dead Air · 19 Aug 2025
- 3. The Long Silence · 26 Aug 2025
- 01
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 54 min
- 02
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 17 min
- 03
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 32 min
- 04
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 47 min
- 05
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 2m
- 06
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 25 min
- 07
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 40 min
- 08
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 55 min
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