Calling All Cars
CBS Don Lee
CBS Don Lee · 1933–1939
Broadcasts
344
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1933
The run
- Network
- CBS Don Lee
- Years active
- 1933–1939
- Surviving broadcasts
- 344
- Genre
- detective
Calling All Cars aired from 29 Nov 1933 until 8 Sep 1939 and originated on the West coast over the Columbia Broadcasting System. The show was sponsored by the Rio Grande Oil Company which was a part of the Sinclair Oil Corporation.
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
12 dated broadcasts across 7 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1933, in original transmission order.
- 1. ep002 Burma White Case · 6 Dec 1933
- 2. July Fourth In a Radio Car · 4 Jul 1934
- 3. Highlights of 1934 · 1 Jan 1935
- 01
ep002 Burma White Case
6 Dec 1933 · 28 min
Broadcast 6 December 1933. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
July Fourth In a Radio Car
4 Jul 1934 · 30 min
- 03
Highlights of 1934
1 Jan 1935 · 29 min
- 04
The Human Claw
16 Jul 1935 · 30 min
- 05
Knives on the Barbary Coast
5 Feb 1936 · 29 min
- 06
Calling All Cars 36-08-20 ep143 Body, Body Who's Got the Body
20 Aug 1936 · 30 min
- 07
Banker Bandit
24 Feb 1937 · 30 min
- 08
Tobaccoville Road
7 Sep 1937 · 29 min
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