Hear It Now
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “hearitnow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The run
- Network
- ABC
- Years active
- 1945–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 684
- 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"
1952 · 21951 · 11950 · 21949 · 11948 · 11947 · 21946 · 11945 · 2
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 39 of 40Rough but complete · 1 of 40
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_This_Is_Your_FBI_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
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1952
1953
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1945, in original transmission order.
- 1. Espionage · 6 Apr 1945
- 2. Murder on the High Seas · 28 Dec 1945
- 3. The Would Be Movie Star · 2 Aug 1946
- 01
Espionage
6 Apr 1945 · 29 min
Broadcast 6 April 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Murder on the High Seas
28 Dec 1945 · 29 min
Broadcast 28 December 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
The Would Be Movie Star
2 Aug 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 2 August 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
The Divorced Child
7 Mar 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 7 March 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
The Trail of Terror
28 Nov 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 28 November 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
The Two Wise Men
5 Nov 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast 5 November 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
The Trans Atlantic Shakedown
8 Jul 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 8 July 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 08
The Hollywood Frame Up
10 Feb 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 10 February 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
22 Dec 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 22 Dec 1950.
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Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Magnificent Montague
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 22 December 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
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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