The run
The exploits of Dan Garrett, a rookie patrolman who, by wearing bullet-proof blue chain mail, transformed himself into the mysterious Blue Beetle, a daring crusader for justice. The Blue Beetle was created by Charles Nicholas.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
4 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1940, in original transmission order.
1 Jan 1940 · 13 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Blue_Beetle_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
1 Jan 1940 · 13 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Blue_Beetle_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
1 Jan 1940 · 13 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Blue_Beetle_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
1 Jan 1940 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Blue_Beetle_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
1 Jan 1940 · 12 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Blue_Beetle_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
1 Jan 1940 · 12 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Blue_Beetle_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
1 Jan 1940 · 12 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Blue_Beetle_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
1 Jan 1940 · 12 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Blue_Beetle_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 15 May 1940.
15 May 1940 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “the-burns-and-allen-show-1934-09-26-2-leaving-for-america”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 15 May 1940. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Other series the network carried while The Blue Beetle was on the air.
Same seasons
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Dimension X put Bradbury and Asimov on the air with sound design as the special effect. Every science fiction audio drama since is working in that studio.
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.
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