The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1941–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 61
- Genre
- detective
"Out of the fog...out of the night...and into his American adventures comes...Bulldog Drummond." Bulldog Drummond has come to wreak havoc on unsuspecting killers, counterfeiters, and underworld characters. The opening of the show starts with a the sounds of footsteps, foghorn, then two shots ring out, followed by three blows of a police officer's whistle. Bulldog, who's really name is Hugh (played by George Coulouris), was a methodical crime-solving sleuth who let nothing get in his way of his goal, which was to put a stop to crime! Bulldog Drummond believed in uncomplicated and decisive means of getting his way with the lords of the underworld. This usually led to their swift capture, and the easing of the city's burden brought about by these ruthless thugs. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “bulldog-drummond”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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
5 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 4 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 1941, in original transmission order.
- 1. Bulldog Drummond 1941-09-28 (14) Hijackers · 28 Sep 1941
- 2. Bulldog Drummond 1944-06-26 (155) Nazi Sub · 26 Jun 1944
- 3. Bulldog Drummond 1945-09-24 (214) Escape Into Death · 24 Sep 1945
Bulldog Drummond 1941-09-28 (14) Hijackers
28 Sep 1941 · 31 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 28 September 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bulldog Drummond 1944-06-26 (155) Nazi Sub
26 Jun 1944 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 26 June 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bulldog Drummond 1945-09-24 (214) Escape Into Death
24 Sep 1945 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 24 September 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bulldog Drummond 1948-04-21 (336) Devil Flats [Endg Cut]
21 Apr 1948 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 21 April 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Bulldog Drummond 1948-07-14 (348) The Deadly Stand In
14 Jul 1948 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 14 July 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Axis Submarine
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Case of the Looney Trail Book
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Fiery Island
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1941–1948
Other series the network carried while Bulldog Drummond was on the air.
Same seasons
detective 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 Bulldog Drummond
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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