Perry Mason
CBS
CBS · 1943–1955
Broadcasts
75
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1943
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1943–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 75
- Genre
- crime
Perry Mason ran on CBS as a fifteen-minute weekday serial from 1943 to 1955, adapted from Erle Stanley Gardner's novels. The surviving episodes 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
18 dated broadcasts across 84 years on the air, with 82 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. Signal at Midnight · 4 Mar 2025
- 2. The Last Train Out · 11 Mar 2025
- 3. Night Broadcast · 18 Mar 2025
- 01
Night Broadcast
4 Aug 2026 · 59 min
- 02
The Last Train Out
28 Jul 2026 · 22 min
- 03
Signal at Midnight
21 Jul 2026 · 37 min
- 04
A Room Above the Street
14 Jul 2026 · 52 min
- 05
The Long Silence
7 Jul 2026 · 15 min
- 06
Dead Air
30 Jun 2026 · 30 min
- 07
Sign Off
23 Jun 2026 · 45 min
- 08
The Case of the Missing Hour
16 Jun 2026 · 1h 0m
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