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This Is Your FBI
This Is Your FBI
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Radio

This Is Your FBI

ABC

ABC · 1945–1953

Broadcasts

684

Cadence

Fortnightly

Rated

PG

Since

1945

The run

Network
ABC
Years active
1945–1953
Surviving broadcasts
684
Genre
detective

This Is Your FBI was a radio crime drama which aired in the United States on ABC from April 6, 1945 to January 30, 1953 for a total of 409 shows. The show featured true cases from FBI, and told from an agent's viewpoint. Edgar Hoover gave it his endorsement, considering it "Our Show" and calling it "the finest dramatic program on the air"

1952 · 21951 · 11950 · 21949 · 11948 · 11947 · 21946 · 11945 · 2

Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files

Clean transfer · 39 of 40Rough but complete · 1 of 40

Source collection

Old Time Radio Researchers Group

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: OTRR_This_Is_Your_FBI_Singles

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

12 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1945, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. Espionage · 6 Apr 1945
  2. 2. Murder on the High Seas · 28 Dec 1945
  3. 3. The Would Be Movie Star · 2 Aug 1946
  • 01

    Espionage

    6 Apr 1945 · 29 min

    Broadcast 6 April 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 02

    Murder on the High Seas

    28 Dec 1945 · 29 min

    Broadcast 28 December 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 03

    The Would Be Movie Star

    2 Aug 1946 · 29 min

    Broadcast 2 August 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 04

    The Divorced Child

    7 Mar 1947 · 29 min

    Broadcast 7 March 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 05

    The Trail of Terror

    28 Nov 1947 · 29 min

    Broadcast 28 November 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 06

    The Two Wise Men

    5 Nov 1948 · 29 min

    Broadcast 5 November 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 07

    The Trans Atlantic Shakedown

    8 Jul 1949 · 29 min

    Broadcast 8 July 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 08

    The Hollywood Frame Up

    10 Feb 1950 · 29 min

    Broadcast 10 February 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

Same night on the air

22 Dec 1950

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 22 Dec 1950.

Transmission

22 December

1950

Hear It Now

HearItNow501222ep02 64kb

Network

CBS

Slot

Friday

Running time

59 min

Internet ArchivehearitnowClean transfer · 128 kbps

Transmission

22 December

1950

The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe

The Slaughtered Santas

Network

NBC

Slot

Friday

Running time

29 min

Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

Internet ArchiveOTRR_New_Adventures_of_Nero_Wolfe_SinglesClean transfer · 128 kbps

Transmission

22 December

1950

The Magnificent Montague

Magnificent Montague 1950-12-22 (7) A Child Visits

Network

NBC

Slot

Friday

Running time

29 min

Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 22 December 1950.

Internet Archivemagnificent-montague-1951-03-30-21-cuckoo-clockCondition unmeasured

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