London Calling: BBC News at War
BBC bulletin, 3 September 1939. Preserved in the Internet Archive's 1939 radio news collection.
Radio
The Shadow of Fu Manchu
Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) · 1939–1939
87 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1939
The run
- Network
- Syndicated (transcription)
- Years active
- 1939–1939
- Surviving broadcasts
- 87
- Genre
- adventure
Series Description: THE SHADOW OF FU MANCHU presented, in serial form, the novels "The Insidious Fu Manchu", "The Hand of Fu Manchu", and "The Return of Fu Manchu". The three novels were dramatized in 39 15-minute episodes.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 45 of 45
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: 390903-102-the-joy-shop
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
6 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
1939
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1939, in original transmission order.
- 1. Insidious Dr Fu Manchu · 8 May 1939
- 2. Green Mist of Death · 24 May 1939
- 3. Ship of Spies · 9 Jun 1939
- 01
Insidious Dr Fu Manchu
8 May 1939 · 13 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “390903-102-the-joy-shop”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
Green Mist of Death
24 May 1939 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “390903-102-the-joy-shop”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
Ship of Spies
9 Jun 1939 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “390903-102-the-joy-shop”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Mystery of Sifan
26 Jun 1939 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “390903-102-the-joy-shop”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
Double for Murder
12 Jul 1939 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “390903-102-the-joy-shop”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
In the Grip of Death
28 Jul 1939 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “390903-102-the-joy-shop”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
Black Magic
10 Aug 1939 · 14 min
Originally broadcast in syndication, 10 August 1939. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
The Joy Shop
3 Sep 1939 · 15 min
Originally broadcast in syndication, 3 September 1939. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
3 Sep 1939
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 3 Sep 1939.
London Calling: BBC News at War
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “1939RadioNews”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Also on Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) in 1939–1939
Other series the network carried while The Shadow of Fu Manchu 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.
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