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Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 10 August 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- Mutual / NBC
- Years active
- 1942–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 19
- Genre
- soap
Front Page Farrell ran from 1941 on Mutual and then NBC until 1954, following a crime reporter and his wife through murder cases serialised across each week. It is one of the few daytime serials built on a detective format rather than a domestic one. Public-domain recordings from the Internet Archive.
1949 · 81945 · 21942 · 2
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: FrontPageFarrell
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
4 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 5 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
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Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1942, in original transmission order.
- 1. Leslie Plans to Resume Working · 13 Mar 1942
- 2. FpgF 1942-03-14 Leslie Plans to Resume Working (aka Going to War) (aka David's Statue) · 14 Mar 1942
- 3. David Banters with Carol · 10 Aug 1945
- 01
Leslie Plans to Resume Working
13 Mar 1942 · 14 min
Episodes of the radio series "Front Page Farrell".
- 02
FpgF 1942-03-14 Leslie Plans to Resume Working (aka Going to War) (aka David's Statue)
14 Mar 1942 · 14 min
(09 Episodes) "Front Page Farrell" was a 15 minute daily, "Husband & Wife Detective Team" Soap Opera/Crime Serial, broadcast by Mutual/NBC from June 23, 1941 thru March 26, 1954. This serial was a Soap Opera disguised as a Crime Serial, to coax the working-class man to sit by the radio, after his long hard day at work. Judging by the length of the run, the idea worked! Because this detective soap opera took place during WWII, many of the episodes were taken directly from real life, more specifically, from the Office of War Information. From 1941-06-23 thru 1942-03-13, Front Page Farrell starre
- 03
David Banters with Carol
10 Aug 1945 · 14 min
Episodes of the radio series "Front Page Farrell".
- 04
FpgF 1945-08-10 #1745 David jokes with Kate Ward (aka Life in the Newsroom
10 Aug 1945 · 14 min
(09 Episodes) "Front Page Farrell" was a 15 minute daily, "Husband & Wife Detective Team" Soap Opera/Crime Serial, broadcast by Mutual/NBC from June 23, 1941 thru March 26, 1954. This serial was a Soap Opera disguised as a Crime Serial, to coax the working-class man to sit by the radio, after his long hard day at work. Judging by the length of the run, the idea worked! Because this detective soap opera took place during WWII, many of the episodes were taken directly from real life, more specifically, from the Office of War Information. From 1941-06-23 thru 1942-03-13, Front Page Farrell starre
- 05
The Man Who Knew All the Angles
15 Jun 1949 · 14 min
Episodes of the radio series "Front Page Farrell".
- 06
FpgF 1949-06-15 The Man Who Knew All The Angles
15 Jun 1949 · 14 min
(09 Episodes) "Front Page Farrell" was a 15 minute daily, "Husband & Wife Detective Team" Soap Opera/Crime Serial, broadcast by Mutual/NBC from June 23, 1941 thru March 26, 1954. This serial was a Soap Opera disguised as a Crime Serial, to coax the working-class man to sit by the radio, after his long hard day at work. Judging by the length of the run, the idea worked! Because this detective soap opera took place during WWII, many of the episodes were taken directly from real life, more specifically, from the Office of War Information. From 1941-06-23 thru 1942-03-13, Front Page Farrell starre
- 07
The Case of the Fatal Smile
20 Jun 1949 · 14 min
Episodes of the radio series "Front Page Farrell".
- 08
FpgF 1949-06-20 The Case of the Fatal Smile
20 Jun 1949 · 14 min
(09 Episodes) "Front Page Farrell" was a 15 minute daily, "Husband & Wife Detective Team" Soap Opera/Crime Serial, broadcast by Mutual/NBC from June 23, 1941 thru March 26, 1954. This serial was a Soap Opera disguised as a Crime Serial, to coax the working-class man to sit by the radio, after his long hard day at work. Judging by the length of the run, the idea worked! Because this detective soap opera took place during WWII, many of the episodes were taken directly from real life, more specifically, from the Office of War Information. From 1941-06-23 thru 1942-03-13, Front Page Farrell starre
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Also on Mutual / NBC
Mutual / NBC in 1942–1949
Other series the network carried while Front Page Farrell was on the air.
Same seasons
soap on the air then
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What it became
The daytime serial
Fifteen minutes a day, the same family for years, and a story that never quite resolves. Ma Perkins and Stella Dallas invented serialised character audio.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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