Hear It Now
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “hearitnow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1950–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 50
- Genre
- detective
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE Nero Wolfe first appeared on radio on July 5, 1943 on the NBC Blue Network in The Adventures Of Nero Wolfe . This series didn't last long and starred Santos Ortega as Wolfe and Luis Van Rooten as Archie.
1951 · 71950 · 5
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 25 of 25
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_New_Adventures_of_Nero_Wolfe_Singles
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.
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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. Stamped For Murder · 20 Oct 1950
- 2. Dear Dead Lady · 3 Nov 1950
- 3. Beautiful Archer · 24 Nov 1950
- 01
Stamped For Murder
20 Oct 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 20 October 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 02
Dear Dead Lady
3 Nov 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 3 November 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 03
Beautiful Archer
24 Nov 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 November 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 04
The Impolite Corpse
8 Dec 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 8 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 05
The Slaughtered Santas
22 Dec 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 06
Deadly Sell-Out
5 Jan 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 5 January 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 07
Calculated Risk
19 Jan 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 19 January 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
Vanishing Shells
2 Feb 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 2 February 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
22 Dec 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 22 Dec 1950.
This Is Your FBI
Broadcast 22 December 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Magnificent Montague
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 22 December 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1950–1951
Other series the network carried while The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe 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 The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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