Escape
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1950–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 101
- Genre
- noir
This upload contains 71 episodes of the old time radio show, Night Beat, starring Frank Lovejoy. The show aired from 1950-1952. The dates, episode numbers and titles are believed to be correct based on available information, but any corrections are welcome.
1952 · 11951 · 21950 · 9
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 12 of 45Listenable · 1 of 45Rough but complete · 32 of 45
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: night-beat-1950-07-24-25-the-devils-bible
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
1951
1952
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. Elevator Caper · 13 Jan 1950
- 2. Night Beat 1950-02-27 (4) The Girl in the Park · 27 Feb 1950
- 3. Night Beat 1950-03-27 (8) Flowers on the Water · 27 Mar 1950
- 01
Elevator Caper
13 Jan 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Night Beat 1950-02-27 (4) The Girl in the Park
27 Feb 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “night-beat-1950-07-24-25-the-devils-bible”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
Night Beat 1950-03-27 (8) Flowers on the Water
27 Mar 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “night-beat-1950-07-24-25-the-devils-bible”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Am I My Brothers Keeper
30 Apr 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Night Beat 1950-05-22 (16) I Wish You Were Dead
22 May 1950 · 27 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “night-beat-1950-07-24-25-the-devils-bible”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
Night Beat 1950-06-19 (20) Vincent & The Painter
19 Jun 1950 · 23 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “night-beat-1950-07-24-25-the-devils-bible”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
Night Beat 1950-07-17 (24) Molly Keller
17 Jul 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “night-beat-1950-07-24-25-the-devils-bible”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
Night Beat Doctor's Secret
21 Aug 1950 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 August 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
27 Oct 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 27 Oct 1950.
The Guiding Light
Guiding Light is the longest running drama of all time. It began as a 15 minute old time radio show in 1937, running until 1947. It then ran through its metamorphosis into a television drama until 1956. In 1952, it became a television show and the radio and television programs ran concurrently for some time. Today this television show is still running. It was originally sponsored by Procter and Gamble, who put the "soap" in soap opera. The brainchild of Irna Phillips, this show is based on her life experiences. When she was 19, an unmarried Irna gave birth to a still-born child. At this time,
Also on NBC
NBC in 1950–1952
Other series the network carried while Night Beat was on the air.
Same seasons
noir 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 Night Beat
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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