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Bulldog Drummond
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Bulldog Drummond

Mutual

Mutual · 1941–1948

Broadcasts

61

Cadence

Weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1941

The run

Network
Mutual
Years active
1941–1948
Surviving broadcasts
61
Genre
detective

"Out of the fog...out of the night...and into his American adventures comes...Bulldog Drummond." Bulldog Drummond has come to wreak havoc on unsuspecting killers, counterfeiters, and underworld characters. The opening of the show starts with a the sounds of footsteps, foghorn, then two shots ring out, followed by three blows of a police officer's whistle. Bulldog, who's really name is Hugh (played by George Coulouris), was a methodical crime-solving sleuth who let nothing get in his way of his goal, which was to put a stop to crime! Bulldog Drummond believed in uncomplicated and decisive means of getting his way with the lords of the underworld. This usually led to their swift capture, and the easing of the city's burden brought about by these ruthless thugs. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “bulldog-drummond”; these recordings are in the public domain.

1948 · 21947 · 11945 · 41944 · 11943 · 11942 · 21941 · 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: bulldog-drummond

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

12 dated broadcasts across 8 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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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1941, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. Highjacker · 28 Sep 1941
  2. 2. A Study in Mink · 11 Jan 1942
  3. 3. Blindman's Bluff · 22 Jun 1942
  • 01

    Highjacker

    28 Sep 1941 · 31 min

  • 02

    A Study in Mink

    11 Jan 1942 · 27 min

  • 03

    Blindman's Bluff

    22 Jun 1942 · 20 min

  • 04

    The Axis Submarine

    20 Sep 1943 · 23 min

  • 05

    Nazi Sub

    26 Jun 1944 · 25 min

  • 06

    The Case of the Double Death

    16 Apr 1945 · 26 min

  • 07

    Help Wanted

    13 Aug 1945 · 30 min

  • 08

    Death on the Diamond

    17 Sep 1945 · 25 min

Same night on the air

17 Jan 1947

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 17 Jan 1947.

Transmission

17 January

1947

Alan Young Show

AYS 1947-01-17 #119 (NBC 015) Clothes Make the Man

Network

NBC Blue

Slot

Friday

Running time

30 min

Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 17 January 1947.

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Transmission

17 January

1947

The Smiths of Hollywood

SOH470117 0002 Cecil Thinks Eviction

Network

Syndicated

Slot

Friday

Running time

28 min

Broadcast on Syndicated.

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