BBC bulletin, 11 November 1939. Preserved in the Internet Archive's 1939 radio news collection.
Vintage
Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1937–1940
178 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1937
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1937–1940
- Surviving broadcasts
- 178
- Genre
- kids
1940 · 211939 · 24
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Rough but complete · 45 of 45
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: Speed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_Police
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air, with 2 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
1937
1938
1939
1940
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1939, in original transmission order.
- 1. Tricks by the Octopus · 22 Jul 1939
- 2. A Ring Gets Them out of Jail · 29 Jul 1939
- 3. The Octopus Visits Are Explained · 5 Aug 1939
The Octopus Finally Captured
25 May 1940 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 25 May 1940. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Death Ray Blown Up
18 May 1940 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 18 May 1940. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Octopus Camp Is Reached
11 May 1940 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 May 1940. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Desert Raiders Attack
4 May 1940 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 4 May 1940. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
An Octopus Agent Confesses to Fire
27 Apr 1940 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 27 April 1940. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Clint's Plane Catches on Fire
20 Apr 1940 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 20 April 1940. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Clint Worries About Landing
13 Apr 1940 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 13 April 1940. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Octopus Gang Member Is Questioned
6 Apr 1940 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 April 1940. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
11 Nov 1939
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 Nov 1939.
BBC bulletin, 11 November 1939. Preserved in the Internet Archive's 1939 radio news collection.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1937–1940
Other series the network carried while Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police was on the air.
Same seasons
kids 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.
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