The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1948–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 59
- Genre
- detective
Episodes from the OTRR Maintained set of Jeff Regan, Investigator: JEFF REGAN, INVESTIGATOR Jeff Regan, Investigator, was one of countless private detective series that proliferated in the years following WWII. The series initially featured Jack Webb in the title role, who was coming off his work in Pat Novak for Hire, followed by Johnny Madero, Pier 23. The series premiered July 10, 1948, over the CBS network. Originally promoted as Joe Canto, Private Eye, the series was never actually broadcast under that name. However, Barton Yarborough, Jack Webb’s first partner in Dragnet, would make a guest appearance in the show playing a…
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
11 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Prodigal Daughter · 17 Jul 1948
- 2. Jeff Regan, Investigator 1948-08-21 · 21 Aug 1948
- 3. The too Many Mrs. Rogers · 9 Oct 1948
The Prodigal Daughter
17 Jul 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast 17 July 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Jeff Regan, Investigator 1948-08-21
21 Aug 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Jeff_Regan_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The too Many Mrs. Rogers
9 Oct 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast 9 October 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Jeff Regan, Investigator 1948-11-27
27 Nov 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Jeff_Regan_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Jeff Regan, Investigator 1949-10-12
12 Oct 1949 · 27 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Jeff_Regan_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Little Man's Lament
9 Nov 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 9 November 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Jeff Regan, Investigator 1950-01-18
18 Jan 1950 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Jeff_Regan_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
A Tree Grows in Encino (AFRS)
5 Apr 1950 · 28 min
Broadcast 5 April 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1948–1950
Other series the network carried while Jeff Regan, Investigator was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Jeff Regan, Investigator
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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