Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 November 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1950–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 70
- 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 · 181951 · 151950 · 12
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
17 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. Night Beat Gunner's Last Fight · 14 Aug 1950
- 2. Night Beat Doctor's Secret · 21 Aug 1950
- 3. Night Beat Old Home Week · 4 Sep 1950
Night Beat The Bug Killings
25 Sep 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 25 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Night Beat Policy Wheel Racket
18 Sep 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 18 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Night Beat Larry the Understudy
11 Sep 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Night Beat Ellen
4 Sep 1952 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 4 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Night Beat The Man With The Red Hair
21 Aug 1952 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Night Beat His Name Was Luke
14 Aug 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 14 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Night Beat Somebody Stop Ann
7 Aug 1952 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Night Beat Flight from Fear
31 Jul 1952 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 31 July 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
16 Nov 1951
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 16 Nov 1951.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 November 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 16 November 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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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