The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 108
- Genre
- adventure
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “SiAndElmer”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. SAE Episode 95 Mysterious Radio Death Threats · Date unknown
- 2. S&E 1931 #2-04 Punkinville Detectives On the Spot · Date unknown
- 3. SAE Episode 13 ADangerousMysteryCasePart03 · Date unknown
- 01
SAE Episode 95 Mysterious Radio Death Threats
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
S&E 1931 #2-04 Punkinville Detectives On the Spot
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
SAE Episode 13 ADangerousMysteryCasePart03
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
SAE Episode 30 ADangerousMysteryCasePart20
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
SAE Episode 66 The Mystery Of The Old River House
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
S&E 1931 #2-11 Four Photos Not Good Quality
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
S&E 1931 #3-05 Si Ate a Dog Biscuit
Date unknown · 10 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
S&E 1931 #1-08 Elmer is a white man with burnt Coal
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Si and Elmer 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 Si and Elmer
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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