The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 42
- Genre
- detective
South African Radio Show Collection No 7 33 Half Moon Street .This story centred around the private investigations company of "Assignments Unlimited". An organisation that investigated uncommon cases and who guaranteed successes at all time. The main character was Aubrey Mason, chief investigator played by Michael Todd. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “33-half-moon-street-sa-65-08-12-12-confidential-cargo”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
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Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. 33 Half Moon Street - SA 65-05-20 (02) Chips for the Fish Mo · Date unknown
- 2. 33 Half Moon Street - SA 65-08-12 (12) Confidential Cargo · Date unknown
- 3. 33 Half Moon Street - SA 65-10-19 (22) Requiem for a Rat · Date unknown
33 Half Moon Street - SA 65-05-20 (02) Chips for the Fish Mo
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
33 Half Moon Street - SA 65-08-12 (12) Confidential Cargo
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
33 Half Moon Street - SA 65-10-19 (22) Requiem for a Rat
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
33 Half Moon Street - SA 66-02-01 (37) No Money for Honey
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
33 Half Moon Street - SA 66-03-29 (45) The Girl in the Ascot
Date unknown · 22 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
33 Half Moon Street - SA 65-07-01 (08) Saved by the Gong
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
33 Half Moon Street - SA 65-08-05 (11) The Moon and a Millio
Date unknown · 22 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
33 Half Moon Street - SA 65-09-30 (19) The Short Term Ghost
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while 33 Half Moon Street was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of 33 Half Moon Street
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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