NBC
NBC · 1940–1950
Broadcasts
27
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. played the parts of "special agents of all branches of the federal government, who daily risk their lives to protect the lives of all of us... to guard our welfare and our liberties, they must remain nameless - The Silent Men!" At each episode, Fairbanks checked in with his chief, played by either William Conrad or Herb Butterfield. Regulars included Virginia Gregg, Raymond Burr, Lou Merrill, Lurene Tuttle, Paul Frees and John Dehner. Don Stanley was the announcer. The show was produced and directed by Warren Lewis, who wrote many of the scripts along with Joel Murcott. The series ran on NBC. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “TheSilentMen”; 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
7 dated broadcasts across 13 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
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
14 Oct 1951 · 28 min
28 Oct 1951 · 27 min
11 Nov 1951 · 29 min
25 Nov 1951 · 29 min
9 Dec 1951 · 29 min
23 Dec 1951 · 29 min
13 Jan 1952 · 29 min
3 Feb 1952 · 29 min
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 14 Oct 1951.
14 October
1951
NBC
Sunday
29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 14 October 1951.
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14 October
1951
CBS
Sunday
29 min
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