The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1953–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 23
- Genre
- drama
Will Rogers Jr as a small-town editor — a quiet, decent series about a country paper. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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
6 dated broadcasts across 74 years on the air, with 73 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 3 Mar 2026
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 10 Mar 2026
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 17 Mar 2026
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 33 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 48 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 26 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 41 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 56 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 19 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 34 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1953–1953
Other series the network carried while Rogers of the Gazette was on the air.
Same seasons
drama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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