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Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- Mutual / NBC Blue
- Years active
- 1936–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 27
- Genre
- adventure
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “461020MrBigsDrugstoreRacket”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1942 · 41941 · 11940 · 21939 · 41938 · 1
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: 461020MrBigsDrugstoreRacket
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 17 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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1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
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1945
1946
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1948
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1951
1952
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. The Devil's Playground · 1 Jan 1938
- 2. Word And Music · 30 May 1939
- 3. Not One Cent For Tribute · 13 Jun 1939
- 01
The Devil's Playground
1 Jan 1938 · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Word And Music
30 May 1939 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Not One Cent For Tribute
13 Jun 1939 · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Put It On Ice
4 Jul 1939 · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
The Parking Lot Racket
31 Oct 1939 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Poor Substitutes
17 Jul 1940 · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
The Highway The Graft Built
3 Oct 1940 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Murder Across The Boards
5 Jul 1941 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
1 Jan 1938
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 1 Jan 1938.
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Black Flame of the Amazon
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
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 The Green Hornet
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