Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1943–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 624
- Genre
- adventure
Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet ), and an example of a Northern genre story. The series was first heard on February 3, 1938.
1955 · 11953 · 41952 · 40
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 31 of 45Listenable · 14 of 45
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_Challenge_of_the_Yukon_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 10 years 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 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. Downriver Adventure · 24 Jan 1952
- 2. One Man's Meat · 29 Jan 1952
- 3. Ordeal at Fort Promise · 31 Jan 1952
Outlaw in Uniform
6 Jan 1955 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 6 January 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Rag Doll
3 Nov 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 3 November 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Death Dart
29 Oct 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 29 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
SOS from Panamint
5 Mar 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 5 March 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Queen's Parlor
19 Feb 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 19 February 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Murder on the Mountain
7 Sep 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Man from Missouri
10 Jun 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 10 June 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Death by Proxy
5 Jun 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 5 June 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
7 Sep 1952
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 7 Sep 1952.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1943–1955
Other series the network carried while Challenge of the Yukon 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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