Transmission
25 March
1945
The Shadow
The Shadow 1945-03-25 (333) The Destroyer
Network
Mutual
Slot
Sunday
Running time
29 min
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Sealed Book
Radio
Sealed Book
Mutual
Mutual · 1940–1950
Broadcasts
49
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 49
- Genre
- horror
THE SEALED BOOK The Sealed Book was a radio series of mystery and terror tales, produced and directed by Jock MacGregor for the Mutual network. Between March 18 and September 9, 1945, the melodramatic anthology series was broadcast on Sundays from 10:30pm to 11:00pm. Each week, after "the sound of the great gong," host Philip Clarke observed that the mysteriously silent "keeper of the book has opened the ponderous door to the secret vault wherein is kept the great sealed book, in which is recorded all the secrets and mysteries of mankind through the ages, Here are tales of every kind, tales of murder, of madness, of dark deeds strange and terrible beyond all belief." After this introduction, the dramas began, occasionally interrupted by curiously extended organ solos. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Sealed_Book_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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_Sealed_Book_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
4 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 10 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1940
1941
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1945
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1949
1950
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1945, in original transmission order.
- 1. TSB-45-03-18 ep01 The Hands of Death · 18 Mar 1945
- 2. Program \#2 - The King of the World · 25 Mar 1945
- 3. Program \#3 - Death Spins a Web · 1 Apr 1945
- 01
TSB-45-03-18 ep01 The Hands of Death
18 Mar 1945 · 27 min
- 02
Program \#2 - The King of the World
25 Mar 1945 · 30 min
- 03
Program \#3 - Death Spins a Web
1 Apr 1945 · 29 min
- 04
Program \#4 - Devil Island
8 Apr 1945 · 29 min
- 05
Program \#5 - Escape by Death
15 Apr 1945 · 29 min
- 06
Accusing Corpse
29 Apr 1945 · 29 min
- 07
Program \#9 - Out of the Past
13 May 1945 · 29 min
- 08
Program \#10 - Welcome Home
20 May 1945 · 29 min
Same night on the air
25 Mar 1945
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 25 Mar 1945.
Transmission
25 March
1945
Soldiers of the Press
Walter Cronkite Grease Monkey
Network
Syndicated
Slot
Sunday
Running time
12 min
Broadcast 25 March 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_Soldiers_Of_The_Press_SinglesCondition unmeasured
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