My Son Jeep
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1951–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 104
- Genre
- noir
William Gargan, who also played the better known television (and radio) detective Martin Kane, was the voice of New York eye Barrie Craig while Ralph Bell portrayed his associate, Lt. Craig's office was on Madison Avenue and his adventures were fairly standard PI fare.
1955 · 11954 · 51953 · 21952 · 31951 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 19 of 45Listenable · 22 of 45Rough but complete · 4 of 45
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Barrie_Craig_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
- 1. Barrie Craig The Judge and the Champ · 17 Oct 1951
- 2. Barrie Craig The Deadly Fight · 23 Jan 1952
- 3. Motive for Murder · 20 Feb 1952
- 01
Barrie Craig The Judge and the Champ
17 Oct 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 17 October 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Barrie Craig The Deadly Fight
23 Jan 1952 · 29 min
Broadcast 23 January 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
Motive for Murder
20 Feb 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 20 February 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 04
Barrie Craig Dead Loss
15 Oct 1952 · 29 min
Broadcast 15 October 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
Beware the Walking Dog
3 May 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 3 May 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 06
Barrie Craig The Thirteenth Guest
9 Aug 1953 · 28 min
Broadcast 9 August 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
Strange Vision
19 Jan 1954 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 19 January 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
Barrie Craig The Schemers
6 Apr 1954 · 29 min
Broadcast 6 April 1954. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
3 May 1953
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 3 May 1953.
My Son Jeep
Broadcast 3 May 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
My Son Jeep
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_My_Son_Jeep_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1951–1955
Other series the network carried while Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was on the air.
Same seasons
noir on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
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
Working in the tradition of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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