The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1948–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 17
- Genre
- serial
The comic strip on the air, with Skeezix and the Wallet family aging in something close to real time. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
5 dated broadcasts across 79 years on the air, with 78 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Case of the Missing Hour · 14 Apr 2026
- 2. Sign Off · 21 Apr 2026
- 3. Dead Air · 28 Apr 2026
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 58 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 21 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 36 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 51 min
The one everybody argues about.
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 14 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 29 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 44 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 59 min
The one everybody argues about.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1948–1949
Other series the network carried while Gasoline Alley was on the air.
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serial on the air then
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