The run
- Network
- Syndicated (Ziv)
- Years active
- 1948–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 23
- Genre
- suspense
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “TheUnexpected”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
3 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. Mercy Killing · 11 Apr 1948
- 2. Birthday Present · 18 Apr 1948
- 3. Solid Citizen · 25 Apr 1948
- 01
Mercy Killing
11 Apr 1948 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 April 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Birthday Present
18 Apr 1948 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Solid Citizen
25 Apr 1948 · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Finale
2 May 1948 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 2 May 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Cargo Unknown
9 May 1948 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 May 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Find the Man
16 May 1948 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 16 May 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Revenge
23 May 1948 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 May 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
The Cripple
30 May 1948 · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated (Ziv)
Syndicated (Ziv) in 1948–1948
Other series the network carried while The Unexpected was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense 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 Unexpected
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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