My Son Jeep
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1939–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 185
- Genre
- detective
DISTRICT ATTORNEY From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mr. District Attorney is a popular radio crime drama, produced by Samuel Bischoff, which aired on NBC and ABC from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed syndication through 1953).
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Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 30 of 45Listenable · 14 of 45Rough but complete · 1 of 45
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Mr_District_Attorney_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 15 years on the air, with 8 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1939, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Milano Brothers · 3 Apr 1939
- 2. Case Of The Hijacked Worker · 19 Aug 1942
- 3. MDA 1945-02-14 (345) Case Of The Stolen Slot Machines · 14 Feb 1945
- 01
The Milano Brothers
3 Apr 1939 · 14 min
Broadcast 3 April 1939. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Case Of The Hijacked Worker
19 Aug 1942 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Mr_District_Attorney_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
MDA 1945-02-14 (345) Case Of The Stolen Slot Machines
14 Feb 1945 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 14 February 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
MDA 1948-05-26 (515) The Case of the Deadly Snowflake
26 May 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 May 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
The Case of the Money Machine
11 Apr 1951 · 30 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
MDA 1952-08-24 (3) Case of the Man on the Ledge
24 Aug 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 August 1952. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
The Case of the Hungry Hobo
10 Oct 1952 · 29 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
The Case of the Motorcycle Club Killer
28 Nov 1952 · 26 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
26 Apr 1953
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 26 Apr 1953.
My Son Jeep
Broadcast 26 April 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1939–1953
Other series the network carried while Mr. District Attorney was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Mr. District Attorney
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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