The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1954–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 12
- Genre
- drama
Courtroom dramatisations from 1954, drawn from case records. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
What survives, year by year
4 dated broadcasts across 73 years on the air, with 72 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Signal at Midnight · 19 May 2026
- 2. The Last Train Out · 26 May 2026
- 3. Night Broadcast · 2 Jun 2026
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 46 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 1m
The one everybody argues about.
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 24 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 39 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 54 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 17 min
The one everybody argues about.
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 32 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 47 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1954–1954
Other series the network carried while Case Dismissed was on the air.
Same seasons
drama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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