Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 May 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1947–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 105
- Genre
- noir
ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE Elements of mystery have always been represented in literature, but the detective story didn't arrive on the scene until the mid 1800's. Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue , published in 1841, was the first.
1951 · 101950 · 30
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 3 of 40Listenable · 37 of 40
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_Philip_Marlowe_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
10 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 3 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
1951
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. Monkey's Uncle · 7 Mar 1950
- 2. Vital Statistic · 14 Mar 1950
- 3. Deep Shadow · 21 Mar 1950
Sound and the Unsound
15 Sep 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Medium Was Rare
8 Sep 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 8 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Nether Nether Land
1 Sep 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Heir for G-String
25 Aug 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Young Man's Fancy
18 Aug 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Long Way Home
4 Aug 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Good Neighbor Policy
28 Jul 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 28 July 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Life Can Be Murder
21 Jul 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 21 July 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
23 May 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 23 May 1950.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 May 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 23 May 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1947–1951
Other series the network carried while The Adventures of Philip Marlowe 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 The Adventures of Philip Marlowe
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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