The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1946–1947
- Surviving broadcasts
- 31
- Genre
- suspense
The Crime Club aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System as a half-hour weekly radio series, beginning on December 2, 1946 and continuing until October 16, 1947, a run of 47 episodes. It aired on Mondays at 8 p.m. through December and then on Thursdays at 10 p.m.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
10 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. Death Blew out the Match · 2 Dec 1946
- 2. Mr Smith's Hat · 23 Jan 1947
- 3. Fear Came First · 13 Mar 1947
Cupid Can Be Deadly
16 Oct 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 16 October 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Sentence of Death
9 Oct 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 9 October 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Cowhide
2 Oct 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 2 October 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
No Time for Murder
25 Sep 1947 · 31 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 25 September 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Fish for Entree
11 Sep 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 11 September 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Sometimes a Sucker Wins
4 Sep 1947 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 4 September 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Death Swims at Midnight
28 Aug 1947 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 28 August 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
A Deed Indeed
21 Aug 1947 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 21 August 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1946–1947
Other series the network carried while Crime Club was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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Modern series carrying this form forward.
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