Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1939–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 77
- 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
14 dated broadcasts across 15 years on the air, with 13 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 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. Case of the Staircase Killer · 19 Oct 1952
- 2. Case of the Charity Killer · 26 Oct 1952
- 3. Case of the Hit and Run Killer · 2 Nov 1952
Case of the Mother's Helper
20 Dec 1953 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 20 December 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Living Corpse
22 Nov 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 November 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Forgery Proof Note
1 Nov 1953 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 November 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Jury Killer
18 Oct 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 18 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Set-Up For Re-Entry
11 Oct 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Pyromaniac Murder
4 Aug 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 4 August 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Living Dead Man
26 Jul 1953 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Case of the Land Swindle Murder
19 Jul 1953 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 19 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
11 Oct 1953
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 Oct 1953.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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11 Oct 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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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