The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1949–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 72
- Genre
- children
Nila Mack's Saturday-morning fairy tales, performed by children for children, for twenty years. 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
18 dated broadcasts across 78 years on the air, with 76 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Last Train Out · 25 Mar 2025
- 2. Night Broadcast · 1 Apr 2025
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 8 Apr 2025
Signal at Midnight
4 Aug 2026 · 57 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
A Room Above the Street
28 Jul 2026 · 20 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
21 Jul 2026 · 35 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Dead Air
14 Jul 2026 · 50 min
The one everybody argues about.
Sign Off
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 5m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
30 Jun 2026 · 28 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
23 Jun 2026 · 43 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Last Train Out
16 Jun 2026 · 58 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
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CBS in 1949–1954
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children on the air then
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