The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1949–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 15
- Genre
- detective
Murder By Experts ran on Mutual from June 1949 through December of 1951. Its total run consisted of 130 episodes of crime and mystery that quickly birthed a loyal following of listeners and swiftly gained the respect and approval from the radio world at large. This show boasted the genius of Robert Arthur and David Kogan of The Mysterious Traveler fame along with famous mystery writers like John Dickson Carr and Brett Halliday who hosted the program and also included many familiar names from the deep pool of New York acting talent like Lawson Zerbe, Ann Shepherd, Santos Ortega, Ralph Bell, and William Zuckert. The…
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
7 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1949, in original transmission order.
- 1. Summer Heat · 13 Jun 1949
- 2. Two Coffins To Fill · 4 Jul 1949
- 3. The Creeper · 18 Jul 1949
Summer Heat
13 Jun 1949 · 28 min
Broadcast 13 June 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Two Coffins To Fill
4 Jul 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 4 July 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Creeper
18 Jul 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 18 July 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Big Money
25 Jul 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 25 July 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Dark Island
8 Aug 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 8 August 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Dig Your Own Grave
15 Aug 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 15 August 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Return Trip
5 Sep 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 5 September 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
I Dreamt I Died
12 Sep 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 12 September 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1949–1950
Other series the network carried while Murder By Experts 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 Murder By Experts
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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