Your Show Time: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

This work was originally broadcast on March 25, 1949, as part of the 'Your Show Time' anthology series, which was the first filmed dramatic series on American television. The episode was registered for copyright by Realm Television Productions, Inc. on May 20, 1949, under registration number LP2359. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal filing with the U.S. Copyright Office during the 28th year of the initial term to extend protection to 95 years. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registration for this specific episode or the series as a whole. Because the 28-year initial term expired in 1977 without a renewal being filed, the work entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 1978. Film Superlist (Hurst) and other public domain registries verify that the series failed to renew.