High Adventure
Broadcast 4 December 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1944–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 35
- Genre
- detective
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Michael_Shayne”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1948 · 101947 · 11944 · 1
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: Michael_Shayne
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
8 dated broadcasts across 10 years on the air, with 7 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 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. Your Daytime Radio Newspaper 44-02-29 · 29 Feb 1944
- 2. Michael Shayne 47-10-14 The Case Of The Judge Is Shot · 14 Oct 1947
- 3. Michael Shayne 48-07-22 ep05 The Case Of The Haunted Bride · 22 Jul 1948
- 01
Your Daytime Radio Newspaper 44-02-29
29 Feb 1944 · 8 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Michael Shayne 47-10-14 The Case Of The Judge Is Shot
14 Oct 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Michael Shayne 48-07-22 ep05 The Case Of The Haunted Bride
22 Jul 1948 · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Michael Shayne 48-08-06 ep07 Case Of The Phantom Gun
6 Aug 1948 · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
The Case of the Grey-Eyed Blonde
20 Aug 1948 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Michael Shayne - - 11 - Model Murder
11 Sep 1948 · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Michael Shayne 48-09-25 ep13 The Crooked Wheel
25 Sep 1948 · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Case of the Purloined Corpse
9 Oct 1948 · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
4 Dec 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 4 Dec 1948.
Day In The Life Of Dennis Day
Day In The Life Of Dennis Day
A Day in the Life of Dennis Day Dennis Helps Mr. Anderson Get Old Fan Letters
4 Dec 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast 4 December 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Archie Andrews
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 4 December 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1944–1953
Other series the network carried while Michael Shayne 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 Michael Shayne
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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