The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1947–1973
- Surviving broadcasts
- 108
- Genre
- adventure
None of the Old Time Radio networks had a hold on romantic adventure like the Columbia Broadcasting System. The other networks certainly made the attempt to get a foot hold in the genre, but it would have been difficult for anyone to compete with The Whistler , Suspense , and Escape . High Adventure is sometimes billed "The Mutual Network's answer to Escape !" In fact, the Mutual anthology premiered on March 1, 1947. There were audition episodes for Escape at the end of February and the middle of March, 1947, but the program did not begin regular broadcast until July. Some reviewers consider Escape to be Suspense 's…
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
4 dated broadcasts across 27 years on the air, with 23 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 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. Waybill (AFRS) · 22 Mar 1947
- 2. Sideshow · 18 Jun 1950
- 3. Who Walks Like A Man (clipped open) · 30 Mar 1954
Waybill (AFRS)
22 Mar 1947 · 25 min
Broadcast 22 March 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Sideshow
18 Jun 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 18 June 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Who Walks Like A Man (clipped open)
30 Mar 1954 · 24 min
Broadcast 30 March 1954. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
(SA) (x) Drums Along the River
31 Jan 1970 · 24 min
Broadcast 31 January 1970. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Snakes
Date unknown · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_High_Adventure_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Cloud Curtain
Date unknown · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_High_Adventure_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
High Adventure Amateur
Date unknown · 26 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_High_Adventure_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
High Adventure Debt Collection
Date unknown · 25 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_High_Adventure_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1947–1973
Other series the network carried while High Adventure 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 High Adventure
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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