It's A Crime, Mr Collins
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1940–1950
Broadcasts
26
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 26
- Genre
- western
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 116 It's a Crime, Mr. Collins, it surely is!" Running for one season, this is a distinctive show about a sleuth in San Francisco, Greg Collins. Gail Collins, wife of the famous detective, tells the crime fighting tales from her perspective as told to her friend, Jack. The couple treks all over the world solving crime from the American Southwest fighting "plumb loco disease”, to French Riviera solving gangster crime, or an Island in the Florida Keys solving murder in the humid air. As Greg fights crime, Gail fights women off of her "favourite famous detective husband and shoe shops in fabulous places worldwide. Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “its-a-crime-mr-collins-aus-57-04-01-dull-blue-treasure”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
6 dated broadcasts across 18 years on the air, with 17 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1957, in original transmission order.
- 1. It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-03-04 Paper Bag, The (Brow · 4 Mar 1957
- 2. It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-03-11 Bowl of Temple Fire · 11 Mar 1957
- 3. It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-03-25 Green Stop Light, Th · 25 Mar 1957
- 01
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-03-04 Paper Bag, The (Brow
4 Mar 1957 · 25 min
- 02
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-03-11 Bowl of Temple Fire
11 Mar 1957 · 25 min
- 03
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-03-25 Green Stop Light, Th
25 Mar 1957 · 25 min
- 04
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-04-01 Dull Blue Treasure,
1 Apr 1957 · 24 min
- 05
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-04-08 Death Wore Green
8 Apr 1957 · 25 min
- 06
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-04-15 Chrome Yellow Death,
15 Apr 1957 · 24 min
- 07
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-04-29 White Plumes, Red Bl
29 Apr 1957 · 23 min
- 08
It's A Crime, Mr Collins - AUS 57-05-06 Brown Alligator Brie
6 May 1957 · 24 min
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