The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1947–1973
- Surviving broadcasts
- 108
- Genre
- adventure
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
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 27 years on the air, with 19 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 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. Waybill (AFRS) · 22 Mar 1947
- 2. Flood Time, Ebb Time · 4 Dec 1948
- 3. The Snow Men · 5 Mar 1950
Waybill (AFRS)
22 Mar 1947 · 25 min
Broadcast 22 March 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Flood Time, Ebb Time
4 Dec 1948 · 24 min
Broadcast 4 December 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Snow Men
5 Mar 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 5 March 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Sideshow
18 Jun 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 18 June 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Hill
30 Jul 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 30 July 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Backlash
20 Jan 1953 · 29 min
Broadcast 20 January 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Who Walks Like A Man (clipped open)
30 Mar 1954 · 24 min
Broadcast 30 March 1954. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
(SA) (x) The Man Who Couldn't Change
21 Jun 1969 · 29 min
Broadcast 21 June 1969. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1947–1973
Other series the network carried while High Adventure 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 High Adventure
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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