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