CBS
CBS · 1947–1951
Broadcasts
216
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1947
The run
ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE Elements of mystery have always been represented in literature, but the detective story didn't arrive on the scene until the mid 1800's. Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue , published in 1841, was the first.
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 5 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
12 Jun 1947 · 24 min
24 Oct 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 24 October 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
12 Feb 1949 · 28 min
23 Apr 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 23 April 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
25 Jun 1949 · 30 min
3 Sep 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 3 September 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
29 Oct 1949 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 29 October 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
28 Jan 1950 · 29 min
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 28 Jul 1950.
28 July
1950
NBC
Friday
27 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 July 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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28 July
1950
Mutual / NBC / CBS
Friday
9 min
Broadcast on Syndicated.
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28 July
1950
NBC / CBS
Friday
14 min
Guiding Light is the longest running drama of all time. It began as a 15 minute old time radio show in 1937, running until 1947. It then ran through its metamorphosis into a television drama until 1956. In 1952, it became a television show and the radio and television programs ran concurrently for some time. Today this television show is still running. It was originally sponsored by Procter and Gamble, who put the "soap" in soap opera. The brainchild of Irna Phillips, this show is based on her life experiences. When she was 19, an unmarried Irna gave birth to a still-born child. At this time,
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