The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 26
- Genre
- western
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 116 It's a Crime, Mr. Collins, it surely is!" Running for one season, this is a distinctive show about a sleuth in San Francisco, Greg Collins. Gail Collins, wife of the famous detective, tells the crime fighting tales from her perspective as told to her friend, Jack. The couple treks all over the world solving crime from the American Southwest fighting "plumb loco disease”, to French Riviera solving gangster crime, or an Island in the Florida Keys solving murder in the humid air. As Greg fights crime, Gail fights women off of her "favourite famous detective husband and shoe shops in fabulous places worldwide. Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “its-a-crime-mr-collins-aus-57-04-01-dull-blue-treasure”; 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
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-03-04 Paper Bag, The (Brow · Date unknown
- 2. It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-04-15 Chrome Yellow Death, · Date unknown
- 3. It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-08-26 Pink Elephant, The · Date unknown
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-03-04 Paper Bag, The (Brow
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-04-15 Chrome Yellow Death,
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-08-26 Pink Elephant, The
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-09-16 Green-Eyed Divorcee,
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-12-02 Green Eyed Dragon, T
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-12-23 Pink Lady, The
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-04-01 Dull Blue Treasure,
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-04-29 White Plumes, Red Bl
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while It's A Crime, Mr Collins was on the air.
Same seasons
western on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The adult western
Gunsmoke was sold as the first adult western: moral ambiguity, weather, silence. Serialised folk horror and long-form fiction inherited its patience.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of It's A Crime, Mr Collins
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