The run
- Network
- Networks
- Years active
- 1944–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 22
- Genre
- drama
Afternoon plays for whoever was home, staged with the same seriousness as evening drama. 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
6 dated broadcasts across 83 years on the air, with 82 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. A Room Above the Street · 10 Mar 2026
- 2. Signal at Midnight · 17 Mar 2026
- 3. The Last Train Out · 24 Mar 2026
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 57 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 20 min
The one everybody argues about.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 35 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 50 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 5m
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 28 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 43 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 58 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Also on Networks
Networks in 1944–1945
Other series the network carried while Matinee Theater was on the air.
Same seasons
drama on the air then
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