Broadcast by the BBC, 8 May 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1944–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 29
- Genre
- horror
Weird was a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945. Sponsored by Adam Hats, the drama is notable in part because it was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler , both in theme and its narrator, Maurice Tarplin, who was also the creepy voice of the Mysterious Traveler.
1945 · 211944 · 8
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 17 of 29Rough but complete · 12 of 29
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_Strange_Dr_Weird_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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1944
1945
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. House Where Death Lived · 7 Nov 1944
- 2. Summoning of Chandor · 14 Nov 1944
- 3. Journey into the Unknown · 21 Nov 1944
Revenge from the Grave
22 May 1945 · 13 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 22 May 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Picture of a Killer
15 May 1945 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 15 May 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Murder, One Million BC
8 May 1945 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 8 May 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Man Who Played Dead
1 May 1945 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 1 May 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ghost Ship
24 Apr 1945 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 24 April 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Dead Man's Paradise
17 Apr 1945 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 17 April 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
When Killers Meet
10 Apr 1945 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 10 April 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Devil's Caverns
3 Apr 1945 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 3 April 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
8 May 1945
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 8 May 1945.
Winston Churchill: The BBC Broadcasts
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8 May 1945 · 2 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 8 May 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 8 May 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1944–1945
Other series the network carried while The Strange Dr. Weird was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Strange Dr. Weird
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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