The run
- Network
- ABC
- Years active
- 1950–1958
- Surviving broadcasts
- 98
- Genre
- kids
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “BIGJONANDSPARKY”; 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
0 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 9 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. bigj Ep 0OTheMayorsWeddingDay · Date unknown
- 2. bigj Ep 0t The Detectives · Date unknown
- 3. bigj Ep Ad Whos Who Continued · Date unknown
bigj Ep 0OTheMayorsWeddingDay
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
bigj Ep 0t The Detectives
Date unknown · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
bigj Ep Ad Whos Who Continued
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
bigj Ep Ay A Mystreious Man In The Shack
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
bigj Ep Bn The Dogs Get Organized
Date unknown · 8 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
bigj Ep Ch Sparkys Mysterious Butterfly
Date unknown · 10 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
bigj Ep 0d A Mysterious Speck On The Far Horizon
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
bigj Ep Af Sparky Tracks Down A Clue
Date unknown · 10 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on ABC
ABC in 1950–1958
Other series the network carried while Big Jon And Sparky was on the air.
Same seasons
kids 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 Big Jon And Sparky
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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