The run
None of the Old Time Radio networks had a hold on romantic adventure like the Columbia Broadcasting System. The other networks certainly made the attempt to get a foot hold in the genre, but it would have been difficult for anyone to compete with The Whistler , Suspense , and Escape . High Adventure is sometimes billed "The Mutual Network's answer to Escape !" In fact, the Mutual anthology premiered on March 1, 1947. There were audition episodes for Escape at the end of February and the middle of March, 1947, but the program did not begin regular broadcast until July. Some reviewers consider Escape to be Suspense 's…
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
12 dated broadcasts across 27 years on the air, with 20 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
22 Mar 1947 · 25 min
Broadcast 22 March 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
4 Dec 1948 · 24 min
Broadcast 4 December 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
5 Mar 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 5 March 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
4 Jun 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 4 June 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
2 Jul 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 2 July 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
8 Oct 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 8 October 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
16 Feb 1954 · 25 min
Broadcast 16 February 1954. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
14 Jun 1969 · 26 min
Broadcast 14 June 1969. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 4 Dec 1948.
4 Dec 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast 4 December 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 4 December 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Other series the network carried while High Adventure was on the air.
Same seasons
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
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
Modern series carrying this form forward.
If you liked this
Chosen by the same editors.
