NBC
NBC · 1949–1951
Broadcasts
181
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1949
The run
Screen Directors' Playhouse is a popular American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcasts adaptations of films with the original directors of the films sometimes involved in the production although their participation was usually li
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
12 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1949, in original transmission order.
9 Jan 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 9 January 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
6 Mar 1949 · 59 min
Broadcast 6 March 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
8 May 1949 · 29 min
22 Jul 1949 · 29 min
16 Sep 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 16 September 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
18 Nov 1949 · 29 min
13 Jan 1950 · 29 min
17 Mar 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 17 March 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Mar 1949.
6 March
1949
Mutual
Sunday
13 min
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
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6 March
1949
CBS
Sunday
28 min
Broadcast 6 March 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
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6 March
1949
NBC
Sunday
29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated.
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