Adventures of Sonny and Buddy
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1940–1950
46 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1940
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 46
- Genre
- adventure
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Sonny_And_Buddy”; 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
What survives, year by year
10 dated broadcasts across 16 years on the air, with 14 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 1935, in original transmission order.
- 1. Medicine Show · 6 Jan 1935
- 2. Betty Kidnapped · 27 Jan 1935
- 3. Crossing The Ri · 17 Feb 1935
- 01
Medicine Show
6 Jan 1935 · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Betty Kidnapped
27 Jan 1935 · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Crossing The Ri
17 Feb 1935 · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Getting Away Fr
10 Mar 1935 · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Explosion
19 Jan 1936 · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
The Money Is Lo
9 Feb 1936 · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Mortgage Paid O
1 Mar 1936 · 10 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Cornered
19 Apr 1936 · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Adventures of Sonny and Buddy 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
Working in the tradition of Adventures of Sonny and Buddy
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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