The run
- Network
- West Coast networks
- Years active
- 1942–1943
- Surviving broadcasts
- 18
- Genre
- documentary
Civil defence drama for the Pacific coast: aircraft spotting, blackout discipline, and the fear of an invasion that never came. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
5 dated broadcasts across 85 years on the air, with 84 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. The Last Train Out · 7 Apr 2026
- 2. Night Broadcast · 14 Apr 2026
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 21 Apr 2026
Night Broadcast
4 Aug 2026 · 51 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Last Train Out
28 Jul 2026 · 14 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Signal at Midnight
21 Jul 2026 · 29 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
A Room Above the Street
14 Jul 2026 · 44 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Long Silence
7 Jul 2026 · 59 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Dead Air
30 Jun 2026 · 22 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Sign Off
23 Jun 2026 · 37 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Case of the Missing Hour
16 Jun 2026 · 52 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
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