Believe It or Not
Broadcast · 1930 · Weekly
NBC / CBS
NBC / CBS · 1930–1955
Broadcasts
364
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1930
The run
- Network
- NBC / CBS
- Years active
- 1930–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 364
- Genre
- variety
Ripley's cabinet of curiosities, read aloud: the unlikeliest true stories in the world, dramatised for a nation that wanted to be astonished. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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
0 dated broadcasts across 26 years on the air, with 26 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Also on NBC / CBS
NBC / CBS in 1930–1955
Other series the network carried while Believe It or Not was on the air.
Same seasons
variety on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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