Adventures by Morse
Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) · 1944–1971
111 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1944
The run
- Network
- Syndicated (transcription)
- Years active
- 1944–1971
- Surviving broadcasts
- 111
- Genre
- adventure
This series takes its place alongside I Love a Mystery , One Man's Family and other works by prolific author Carlton E. Morse. Produced after I Love a Mystery , this transcribed and syndicated show continued the earlier program's preoccupation with the eerie and the exotic. Captain Bart Friday and his trusted companion Skip Turner ranged throughout the world in their quest for dangerous challenges to overcome. Undaunted by Nazis, murderers, vampires, deadly serpents, zombies and disciples of the dark arts they made their way through story lines with such titles as "Land of the Living Dead" and "Cobra King…
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
9 dated broadcasts across 28 years on the air, with 26 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 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. Promotion #1 (date added to force to top of list) · 5 Jan 1944
- 2. The City of the Dead 5 (The Skeleton Walks In) · 5 Feb 1944
- 3. The City of the Dead (Where The Pearls Were Hidden) · 11 Mar 1944
Promotion #1 (date added to force to top of list)
5 Jan 1944 · 14 min
Broadcast 5 January 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The City of the Dead 5 (The Skeleton Walks In)
5 Feb 1944 · 26 min
Broadcast 5 February 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The City of the Dead (Where The Pearls Were Hidden)
11 Mar 1944 · 26 min
Broadcast 11 March 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Cobra King Strikes Back 2 (The Adventure Continues)
15 Apr 1944 · 25 min
Broadcast 15 April 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Cobra King Strikes Back 7 (The Face Of The Beast)
20 May 1944 · 27 min
Broadcast 20 May 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Girl on Shipwreck Island 2 (The Pirate Is A Fighting Man)
24 Jun 1944 · 25 min
Broadcast 24 June 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
AbyM 1944-08-19 #033 Dead Men Prowl Pt 07 Four Go to Join the Prowling Dead
19 Aug 1944 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 19 August 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
AbyM 1944-10-28 #043 Land of the Living Dead Pt 04 The Tree That Eats Flesh)
28 Oct 1944 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 28 October 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) in 1944–1971
Other series the network carried while Adventures by Morse was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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