The run
- Network
- ABC
- Years active
- 1945–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 357
- Genre
- detective
This Is Your FBI was a radio crime drama which aired in the United States on ABC from April 6, 1945 to January 30, 1953 for a total of 409 shows. The show featured true cases from FBI, and told from an agent's viewpoint. Edgar Hoover gave it his endorsement, considering it "Our Show" and calling it "the finest dramatic program on the air"
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
What survives, year by year
10 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 7 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 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Loner · 25 Apr 1952
- 2. The Courier · 2 May 1952
- 3. The Punch and Judy Shakedown · 9 May 1952
The Redheaded Blackmailer
30 Jan 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on ABC, 30 January 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Death in the Desert
23 Jan 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on ABC, 23 January 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Divorced Child
9 Jan 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on ABC, 9 January 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Mr Big Shot
2 Jan 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on ABC, 2 January 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Sunshine Syndicate
26 Dec 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on ABC, 26 December 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Snow Screen
19 Dec 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on ABC, 19 December 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Pickup
12 Dec 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on ABC, 12 December 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Mama's Boy
5 Dec 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on ABC, 5 December 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on ABC
ABC in 1945–1953
Other series the network carried while This Is Your FBI was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of This Is Your FBI
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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