The Adventures of Frank Race
Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) · 1940–1950
Broadcasts
45
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
- Network
- Syndicated (transcription)
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 45
- Genre
- detective
THE ADVENTURES OF FRANK RACE Broadcast: May 1, 1949- February 19, 1950 (East Coast) and June 5, 1951- March 25, 1952 (West Coast), syndicated Cast: Tom Collins as Frank Race (through "The Adventure of the Roughneck's Will", #22, 09/25/1949) Paul Dubov as Frank Race (from "The Adventure of the Green Doubloon", #23, 10/02/1949 to end) Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan Written and Directed by: Joel Murcott and Buckley Angel Music by: Ivan Ditmars Announcers: Art Gilmore, Michael Roy (episodes 26, 27) The Adventures of Frank Race was a syndicated show produced by Bruce Eells Productions in Hollywood. Each program began with the introduction: "Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney, but he traded his law books for the cloak-and-dagger of the OSS. When the war was over, his former life was over too.... Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Frank_Race_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
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Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Enoch Arden Adventure · Date unknown
- 2. The Adventure Of The Shanghai Incident · Date unknown
- 3. The Adventure Of The Talking Bullet · Date unknown
- 01
The Enoch Arden Adventure
Date unknown · 27 min
- 02
The Adventure Of The Shanghai Incident
Date unknown · 26 min
- 03
The Adventure Of The Talking Bullet
Date unknown · 27 min
- 04
The Adventure of The Violent Virtuoso
Date unknown · 27 min
- 05
The Adventure of The Sobbing Bodyguard
Date unknown · 26 min
- 06
The Adventure Of The Lady in the Dark
Date unknown · 26 min
- 07
The Adventure Of The Gold Worshipper
Date unknown · 27 min
- 08
Frank Race 49-xx-xx ep42 The Adventure Of The Blackfriar's Bridge
Date unknown · 26 min
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