The run
Named after the then famous telephone number of Scotland Yard -- the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Force, Whitehall 1212 was a weekly crime drama radio show. It ran from November 18, 1951 until September 28, 1952.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
10 dated broadcasts across 33 years on the air, with 30 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1920, in original transmission order.
12 Dec 1920 · 2 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Whitehall_1212_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
16 Dec 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
13 Jan 1952 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 13 January 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
10 Feb 1952 · 29 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
2 Mar 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 2 March 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
30 Mar 1952 · 29 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
27 Apr 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
25 May 1952 · 30 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 27 Apr 1952.
27 Apr 1952 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
Other series the network carried while Whitehall 1212 was on the air.
Same seasons
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
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
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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