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Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 September 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Vox Pop collection (public domain).
Radio
Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police
Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) · 1937–1940
178 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1937
The run
- Network
- Syndicated (transcription)
- Years active
- 1937–1940
- Surviving broadcasts
- 178
- Genre
- kids
1939 · 41938 · 41937 · 4
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
12 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air, with 1 year 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 1937, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Octopus Gang Active · 2 Jan 1937
- 2. Clint to Stay with Dr Kingsley · 10 Apr 1937
- 3. Speed and Bob Fly to Help Dr Kingsley · 17 Jul 1937
- 01
The Octopus Gang Active
2 Jan 1937 · 12 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Speed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_Police”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
Clint to Stay with Dr Kingsley
10 Apr 1937 · 12 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Speed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_Police”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
Speed and Bob Fly to Help Dr Kingsley
17 Jul 1937 · 13 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Speed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_Police”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Speed Thinks Quan Wu Is a Gang Member
23 Oct 1937 · 13 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Speed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_Police”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
Speed Talks with the Octopus Via Radio
29 Jan 1938 · 12 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Speed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_Police”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
A Secret Torture Chamber
7 May 1938 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Speed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_Police”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
Clint and Speed Begin an Air Flight
13 Aug 1938 · 13 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Speed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_Police”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
The Octopus and Men Captured
19 Nov 1938 · 13 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Speed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_Police”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
9 Sep 1939
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 9 Sep 1939.
Avalon Time
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 September 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) 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.
Descendants
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