Originally broadcast on ABC, 24 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1945–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 21
- Genre
- detective
THE ADVENTURES OF THE FALCON This hard boiled spy drama began as an RKO Radio Pictures theatrical serial in the 1940s, went on radio in 1943, and then came to TV around ten years later in a Syndicated series produced for distribution by NBC Films; the series was about an American agent whose code name was "Falcon".
1950 · 181949 · 11948 · 11945 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 2 of 21Listenable · 18 of 21Rough but complete · 1 of 21
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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: OTRR_Falcon_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
9 dated broadcasts across 6 years on the air, with 2 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1945, in original transmission order.
- 1. Murder Is A Family Affair · 27 Nov 1945
- 2. Murder Is A Bad Bluff · 1 Nov 1948
- 3. Murder Is A Knock-Out · 20 Feb 1949
TCOT Unwelcome Christmas Present
24 Dec 1950 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
TCOT Baby Brother
17 Dec 1950 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 17 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
TCOT Raw Deal
10 Dec 1950 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 10 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
TCOT Harried Husband
3 Dec 1950 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 3 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
TCOT Stooge's Errand
26 Nov 1950 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 November 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
TCOT Puzzling Pinup
19 Nov 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 19 November 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
TCOT Widow's Gorilla
12 Nov 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 12 November 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
TCOT Rich Racketeer
5 Nov 1950 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 5 November 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
24 Dec 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 24 Dec 1950.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 24 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1945–1950
Other series the network carried while The Adventures of the Falcon 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 The Adventures of the Falcon
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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