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Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police
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Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police

Syndicated (transcription)

Syndicated (transcription) · 1937–1940

Broadcasts

178

Cadence

Twice weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1937

The run

Network
Syndicated (transcription)
Years active
1937–1940
Surviving broadcasts
178
Genre
kids
1939 · 41938 · 41937 · 4

Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files

Rough but complete · 45 of 45

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: Speed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_Police

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

12 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

JFMAMJJASOND
1937
1938
1939
1940
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1937, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. The Octopus Gang Active · 2 Jan 1937
  2. 2. Clint to Stay with Dr Kingsley · 10 Apr 1937
  3. 3. Speed and Bob Fly to Help Dr Kingsley · 17 Jul 1937
  • 01

    The Octopus Gang Active

    2 Jan 1937 · 12 min

  • 02

    Clint to Stay with Dr Kingsley

    10 Apr 1937 · 12 min

  • 03

    Speed and Bob Fly to Help Dr Kingsley

    17 Jul 1937 · 13 min

  • 04

    Speed Thinks Quan Wu Is a Gang Member

    23 Oct 1937 · 13 min

  • 05

    Speed Talks with the Octopus Via Radio

    29 Jan 1938 · 12 min

  • 06

    A Secret Torture Chamber

    7 May 1938 · 14 min

  • 07

    Clint and Speed Begin an Air Flight

    13 Aug 1938 · 13 min

  • 08

    The Octopus and Men Captured

    19 Nov 1938 · 13 min

Same night on the air

9 Sep 1939

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 9 Sep 1939.

Transmission

9 September

1939

Vox Pop

New York Worlds Fair New York New York

Network

NBC / CBS

Slot

Saturday

Running time

29 min

Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 September 1939.

Internet ArchiveVoxPop_857Rough but complete · 26 kbps

Transmission

9 September

1939

Avalon Time

AT 1939-09-09 #036 Nagging Wife

Network

NBC

Slot

Saturday

Running time

28 min

Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 September 1939.

Internet ArchiveAvalonTimeRedSkeltonCondition unmeasured

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Syndicated (transcription) in 1937–1940

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