by Joseph W. Webb, Ph.D. (c) 2026, Joseph W. Webb, Ph.D. One of radio’s greatest syndication successes, featuring radio’s best-regarded actors and writers Stars Dana Andrews, a staunch union and ACLU member, a free-speech advocate who fought against Hollywood blacklisting; concerned about preserving basic American freedoms A big budget enterprise, with production investments exceeding many big network programs A superb spy and espionage series, with storylines developed mainl

I received a number of document images from the University of Wisconsin NBC archives. They were about the early weeks of Mr. DA under Philips H. Lord. It was a 15-minute serial at that time. Reviews were not good. At NBC headquarters, they measured it against Big Town with Edward G. Robinson. They were very impatient about how the series was coming together. This particular comment in the New York Daily News raised some ire. The critic said that it had "shoddy episodes," "slo

Sometimes in OTR collecting, the sheer luck of finding programs has an unfortunate downside. One of those is the lack of recognition that the 1940s Mr. District Attorney series receives. This has happened because so few recordings of the show's grandest period have survived. The result is that there is little recognition of Jay Jostyn as a big star of radio's heyday. He was the star of the series for 13 seasons, and less than 7% of the broadcasts have survived. Mr. District

Researcher Karl Schadow has documented that an early weekly series on the Mutual network had eight scripts that Jack Johnstone revised for Suspense  under producers Bruno Zirato, Jr. and Fred Hendrickson. The series was Who Knows? and was a 15-minute program. The list is as follows:  1961-08-06 Bells (has the full background at the end of its blogpost) 1961-09-17 The Green Idol 1961-10-08 Dreams 1962-01-14 Feathers 1962-02-04 Friday 1962-04-22 The Curse of Kamashek 1962-06-10

1948-07-08 The Last Chance The is the first Auto-Lite broadcast after the failed 60-minute broadcast experiment. The CBS publicity effort was strong behind the return of the series and promotion of the first episode. Why the discs of this episode are missing is a surprise. Somebody took them out of the library for some reason and never returned them. But it's the first episode of a new sponsor, and you would think that there would have been reasons for multiple copies made fo

The Suspense Project thanks American Radio Theater, Blue Hours Productions, Project Audion, and Sole Twin Audio for their generous support in the preservation of the Suspense series. Each agreed to allow their productions to be part of the Suspense Project collection at the Internet Archive . “Truly missing” episodes refer to those missing Suspense episodes that were broadcast only one time. The series did present many scripts twice. If one recording was missing, there was a

It is from 1952-04-09, episode number 263. It profiles a part-time reporter, Charlie Manning of the Greensboro NC Daily News. Part 1 makes you really desire to hear part 2. Luckily, we have the script as part of the tobacco litigation documents of 20+ years ago. It picks up on p14. This is a link to Manning's original news story as seen in the 1951-03-15 Charlotte NC Observer https://i.servimg.com/u/f61/19/48/94/49/1951-081.png The audio and the script are at https://transfer

Jerry Haendiges logs (not updated for many years, but still a good start for research projects) https://otrsite.com/radiolog/index.html RadioGoldindex https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/ Magazine and pulp index (great for finding original writer citations for stories adapted for radio) http://www.philsp.com/homeville/cfi/0start.htm World Radio History (for magazine searches and downloadable books; Billboard magazine collection is superb) https://www.worldradiohistory.co