Dick Tracy
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 25 April 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1938–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 1169
- Genre
- theatre
LUX RADIO THEATRE The individual episodes have been broken down into several different pages: Lux Radio Theatre - Single Episodes or by season: (There are no known surviving First Season episodes) Lux Radio Theatre - Single Episodes - Second Season: 07/29/35 to 06/25/36 Lux Radio Theatre - Single Episodes - Third Season: 07/01/36 to 07/05
1941 · 21940 · 21939 · 31938 · 11937 · 31935 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 37 of 90Listenable · 18 of 90Rough but complete · 35 of 90
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_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 21 years on the air, with 15 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 1935, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dulcy · 28 Oct 1935
- 2. The Gilded Lily · 11 Jan 1937
- 3. Lux 37-05-10 Mary of Scotland · 10 May 1937
- 01
Dulcy
28 Oct 1935 · 59 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
The Gilded Lily
11 Jan 1937 · 59 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
Lux 37-05-10 Mary of Scotland
10 May 1937 · 57 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Lux 37-11-15 Come and Get It
15 Nov 1937 · 59 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Dangerous
25 Apr 1938 · 59 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
Ceiling Zero
27 Feb 1939 · 59 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
The Ex-Mrs Bradford
19 Jun 1939 · 59 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
In Name Only
11 Dec 1939 · 59 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
25 Apr 1938
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 25 Apr 1938.
The Daredevils of Hollywood
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1938–1955
Other series the network carried while Lux Radio Theater was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Lux Radio Theater
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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