The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1944–1971
- Surviving broadcasts
- 57
- Genre
- adventure
This series takes its place alongside I Love a Mystery , One Man's Family and other works by prolific author Carlton E. Morse. Produced after I Love a Mystery , this transcribed and syndicated show continued the earlier program's preoccupation with the eerie and the exotic. Captain Bart Friday and his trusted companion Skip Turner ranged throughout the world in their quest for dangerous challenges to overcome. Undaunted by Nazis, murderers, vampires, deadly serpents, zombies and disciples of the dark arts they made their way through story lines with such titles as "Land of the Living Dead" and "Cobra King…
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
What survives, year by year
7 dated broadcasts across 28 years on the air, with 26 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. Promotion #1 (date added to force to top of list) · 5 Jan 1944
- 2. The City of the Dead 2 (I've Dug Up Something Ghastly) · 15 Jan 1944
- 3. The City of the Dead 4 (Old Clawfoot Again) · 29 Jan 1944
Promotion #1 (date added to force to top of list)
5 Jan 1944 · 14 min
Broadcast 5 January 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The City of the Dead 2 (I've Dug Up Something Ghastly)
15 Jan 1944 · 26 min
Broadcast 15 January 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The City of the Dead 4 (Old Clawfoot Again)
29 Jan 1944 · 26 min
Broadcast 29 January 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The City of the Dead 7 (Captain Friday Vanishes)
19 Feb 1944 · 25 min
Broadcast 19 February 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The City of the Dead (Where The Pearls Were Hidden)
11 Mar 1944 · 26 min
Broadcast 11 March 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
A Coffin for the Lady 2 (Conversation In The Casket)
25 Mar 1944 · 25 min
Broadcast 25 March 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Cobra King Strikes Back 2 (The Adventure Continues)
15 Apr 1944 · 25 min
Broadcast 15 April 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Cobra King Strikes Back 4 (Temple Of The Gorillas)
29 Apr 1944 · 27 min
Broadcast 29 April 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1944–1971
Other series the network carried while Adventures by Morse was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Adventures by Morse
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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