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The Strange Dr. Weird
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Radio

The Strange Dr. Weird

Mutual

Mutual · 1944–1945

Broadcasts

58

Cadence

Seasonal

Rated

PG

Since

1944

The run

Network
Mutual
Years active
1944–1945
Surviving broadcasts
58
Genre
horror

Weird was a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945. Sponsored by Adam Hats, the drama is notable in part because it was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler , both in theme and its narrator, Maurice Tarplin, who was also the creepy voice of the Mysterious Traveler.

1945 · 81944 · 4

Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files

Clean transfer · 17 of 29Rough but complete · 12 of 29

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_Strange_Dr_Weird_Singles

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

6 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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1944
1945
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. House Where Death Lived · 7 Nov 1944
  2. 2. Journey into the Unknown · 21 Nov 1944
  3. 3. Murder Comes Home · 5 Dec 1944
  • 01

    House Where Death Lived

    7 Nov 1944 · 13 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 7 November 1944. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 02

    Journey into the Unknown

    21 Nov 1944 · 12 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 21 November 1944. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 03

    Murder Comes Home

    5 Dec 1944 · 12 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 5 December 1944. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 04

    White Pearls of Freedom

    19 Dec 1944 · 11 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 19 December 1944. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 05

    Tiger Cat

    2 Jan 1945 · 11 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 2 January 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 06

    Beauty and the Beast

    16 Jan 1945 · 12 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 16 January 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 07

    Man Who Lived Twice

    30 Jan 1945 · 12 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 30 January 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

  • 08

    Secret Room

    13 Feb 1945 · 12 min

    Originally broadcast on Mutual, 13 February 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

Same night on the air

13 Feb 1945

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 13 Feb 1945.

Transmission

13 February

1945

Alan Young Show

AYS 1945-02-13 #033 (ABC 020) Raising & Selling Rabbits

Network

NBC Blue

Slot

Tuesday

Running time

30 min

Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 13 February 1945.

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Transmission

13 February

1945

The Bob Hope Program

From Mudock, California Tony R

Network

NBC

Slot

Tuesday

Running time

29 min

Broadcast on Syndicated.

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Also on Mutual

Mutual in 1944–1945

Other series the network carried while The Strange Dr. Weird was on the air.

Same seasons

horror on the air then

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