Dick Tracy
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 25 April 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 15
- Genre
- western
THE DAREDEVILS OF HOLLYWOOD Daredevil Deviltry may not be the easiest or safest way to make one’s living, but it is certainly the most exciting. People often wonder how daredevils get that way and if they are normal human beings or suicidal maniacs. They are as normal as you and I and have no intent of self-destruction. With a yen for accomplishing what to many appears to be impossible in the way of daring feats, they have entered a bizarre profession where the money is good and they satisfy a public willing to pay for chills and thrills. But why pay to watch daredevils to perform? If you’ve got a television set in your home, sit back, relax, and get your share of thrills and chills watching the old adventure movies frequently shown, and, of course, the ever popular westerns. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Daredevils_of_Hollywood_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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: OTRR_Daredevils_of_Hollywood_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
3 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 12 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
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1938, in original transmission order.
- 1. Bob Rose · 25 Apr 1938
- 2. Cliff Lyons · 29 Apr 1938
- 3. Ione Reed · 2 May 1938
- 01
Bob Rose
25 Apr 1938 · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Cliff Lyons
29 Apr 1938 · 10 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Ione Reed
2 May 1938 · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Slim Talbot
6 May 1938 · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Matt Gillman
9 May 1938 · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Bob Clark
13 May 1938 · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Frank McGrath
16 May 1938 · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Kansas Mooring
20 May 1938 · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
25 Apr 1938
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 25 Apr 1938.
Lux Radio Theater
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while The Daredevils of Hollywood 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 The Daredevils of Hollywood
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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