The Adventures of the Thin Man

Frozen collection is mixed: eight Adventures of the Thin Man serial recordings, two Lux Radio Theatre film adaptations, and one 1936 MGM Leo Is On The Air film-promotion recording. These artifact types are modeled separately.

The run breaks into several distinct periods: Lux / MGM-related artifacts (1936 to 1940), NBC early serial era (July 2, 1941 to December 23, 1942) on NBC Radio Network, CBS General Foods era (January 8, 1943 to December 26, 1947) on CBS Radio Network, and 1948 NBC Pabst revival (June 22, 1948 to July 20, 1948) on NBC Radio Network.

Names that turn up again and again in the surviving run include Claudia Morgan (performer), Fred Fradkin (music), Himan Brown (director and producer), Dashiell Hammett (creator), Les Tremayne (performer), David Gothard (performer), and Ed Herlihy (announcer).

Across its run, the surviving broadcasts are tied to Armed Forces Radio Service, CBS Radio Network, and NBC Radio Network.

The stories often return to fragmentary Thin Man radio survival, Dashiell Hammett property, Nick and Nora Charles, mystery-comedy detective story, married sleuth partnership, and AFRS/service rebroadcast preservation.

The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes Fragmentary and repackaged Thin Man audio survival, Adventures of the Thin Man network radio run, Lux Radio Theatre Thin Man adaptations, and Publication of Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man.

If you are following the same actors and creative circles, related programs worth opening next include Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Columbia Workshop, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and The Falcon.