The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1934–1940
- Surviving broadcasts
- 16
- Genre
- detective
Ryan Ellett Nick Harris was a Los Angeles private eye who began sharing detective exploits both through live lectures and serialized newspaper recounting before stepping before the microphone in 1923 over KFI. Astonishingly, Harris’ weekly program (heard twice weekly in the late 1930s) ran for nearly 20 years until 1942. While unknown to modern old-time radio afficionados, Harris is an unquestionable pioneer of radio drama. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. It is located here . This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. Note that…
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
6 dated broadcasts across 7 years on the air, with 3 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 1934, in original transmission order.
- 1. A Salute to the Law The Case of the Avenging Angel · 13 Feb 1934
- 2. A Salute to the Law The Avenging Angel Strikes Again · 20 Feb 1934
- 3. A Salute to the Law The Young Shoplifter, Part 2 · 8 Jul 1938
A Salute to the Law The Case of the Avenging Angel
13 Feb 1934 · 14 min
Broadcast 13 February 1934. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
A Salute to the Law The Avenging Angel Strikes Again
20 Feb 1934 · 14 min
Broadcast 20 February 1934. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
A Salute to the Law The Young Shoplifter, Part 2
8 Jul 1938 · 14 min
Broadcast 8 July 1938. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
A Salute to the Law Fatal Ace of Spades
15 Jul 1938 · 14 min
Broadcast 15 July 1938. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
A Salute to the Law Drops of Blood
22 Jul 1938 · 15 min
Broadcast 22 July 1938. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
A Salute to the Law A Woman's Wrath
23 May 1939 · 14 min
Broadcast 23 May 1939. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
A Salute to the Law The Altar of Sacrifice
30 May 1939 · 14 min
Broadcast 30 May 1939. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
A Salute to the Law On the Stroke of Eight
4 Jul 1939 · 14 min
Broadcast 4 July 1939. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1934–1940
Other series the network carried while Salute To The Law 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 Salute To The Law
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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