The Adventures of the Falcon
NBC
NBC · 1945–1950
Broadcasts
97
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1945
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1945–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 97
- Genre
- detective
THE ADVENTURES OF THE FALCON This hard boiled spy drama began as an RKO Radio Pictures theatrical serial in the 1940s, went on radio in 1943, and then came to TV around ten years later in a Syndicated series produced for distribution by NBC Films; the series was about an American agent whose code name was "Falcon".
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 8 years on the air, with 4 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 1945, in original transmission order.
- 1. Murder Is A Family Affair · 27 Nov 1945
- 2. TCOT Worried Champion · 10 Sep 1950
- 3. TCOT Widow's Gorilla · 12 Nov 1950
- 01
Murder Is A Family Affair
27 Nov 1945 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 November 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 02
TCOT Worried Champion
10 Sep 1950 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 10 September 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 03
TCOT Widow's Gorilla
12 Nov 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 12 November 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 04
The Falcon 51-01-07 (315) TCOT Invisible Thug
7 Jan 1951 · 24 min
- 05
The Falcon 51-02-25 (322) TCOT Practical Choker
25 Feb 1951 · 30 min
- 06
The Falcon 51-04-15 (329) TCOT Shopkeeper's Gun
15 Apr 1951 · 28 min
- 07
The Falcon 51-06-06 (336) TCOT Proud Papa
6 Jun 1951 · 29 min
- 08
The Falcon 51-07-25 (343) TCOT Plenty Twenty
25 Jul 1951 · 29 min
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