Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 May 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Hear It Now collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- ABC
- Years active
- 1947–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 18
- Genre
- detective
Ryan Ellett Murder and Mr. Malone , starring Frank Lovejoy as Chicago’s mystery-solving lawyer John J. Malone, debuted on January 11, 1947 over ABC. Sponsored by Guild Wines through the Honig-Cooper agency, week after week Mr. Malone found himself involved in trying to solve a wide variety of killings that often involved blackmail, mistaken identities, and gambling. In the spring of 1948 the sponsor announced they were cutting ties with Mr. Malone, while at the same time changing the title of the series from Murder and Mr. Malone to The Amazing Mr. Malone as of April 24, 1948. At the time of the change the…
1951 · 61950 · 11949 · 11947 · 1
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_Malone_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
6 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. Murder and Mr. Malone The Paul Davis Murder Case · 24 May 1947
- 2. The Amazing Mr. Malone The Paul Conrad Case · 21 Sep 1949
- 3. The Amazing Mr. Malone The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands · 29 Jan 1950
Murder and Mr. Malone The Paul Davis Murder Case
24 May 1947 · 30 min
Broadcast 24 May 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Amazing Mr. Malone The Paul Conrad Case
21 Sep 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 21 September 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Amazing Mr. Malone The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands
29 Jan 1950 · 28 min
Broadcast 29 January 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Amazing Mr. Malone A Strong Offense Is the Best Defense
25 May 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 25 May 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Amazing Mr. Malone Hard Work Never Killed Anyone (Willie Nelson)
1 Jun 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 1 June 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Amazing Mr. Malone Early to Bed, Early to Rise
15 Jun 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 15 June 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Amazing Mr. Malone Hard Work Never Killed Anyone (Danny Braden)
22 Jun 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 22 June 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Amazing Mr. Malone Never Judge a Book By Its Cover
6 Jul 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 6 July 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
25 May 1951
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 25 May 1951.
Originally broadcast in syndication, 25 May 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on ABC
ABC in 1947–1951
Other series the network carried while Mr Malone 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 Malone
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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