NBC Radio City Playhouse
NBC
NBC · 1948–1950
Broadcasts
28
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1948
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1948–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 28
- Genre
- theatre
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W. Junkin and broadcast sustaining — that is, unsponsored — from Radio City in New York. Freed from advertiser approval, it staged original and adapted drama with an emphasis on suspense and character. Twenty-eight episodes survive here in the public domain.
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
0 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air, with 3 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Long Distance · Date unknown
- 2. Ground Floor Window · Date unknown
- 3. Of Unsound Mind · Date unknown
- 01
Long Distance
Date unknown · 27 min
- 02
Ground Floor Window
Date unknown · 28 min
- 03
Of Unsound Mind
Date unknown · 27 min
- 04
Whistle Daughter Whistle
Date unknown · 27 min
- 05
Special Delivery
Date unknown · 29 min
- 06
Fanny
Date unknown · 29 min
- 07
Betrayal
Date unknown · 28 min
- 08
King Of The Moon
Date unknown · 28 min
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