ABC
ABC · 1940–1955
Broadcasts
88
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
This upload contains 88 episodes of the Old Time Radio program, Gang Busters. The show, a police-based dramatic crime anthology, ran from 1935-1957 and focused on dramatizing crimes from police files. The show also broadcast alerts, known as Gang Buster Clues, of suspects wanted by police around the country.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
12 dated broadcasts across 16 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
Restored broadcasts from 1940, in original transmission order.
1 Nov 1940 · 30 min
9 Jun 1944 · 30 min
8 Dec 1945 · 42 min
11 May 1946 · 26 min
6 Dec 1947 · 25 min
28 Feb 1948 · 22 min
12 Jun 1948 · 24 min
2 Oct 1948 · 45 min
Originally broadcast on ABC, 2 October 1948. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 12 Jun 1948.
12 June
1948
NBC
Saturday
28 min
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell brought Gilbert Patten's dime-novel hero — the clean-living Yale sportsman — to NBC, first in the mid-1930s and again in a Saturday-morning run from 1946 to 1949 with Lawson Zerbe in the title role.
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12 June
1948
NBC Blue
Saturday
29 min
Broadcast on NBC Blue.
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