Hop Harrigan
Hop Harrigan, America's Ace of the Airwaves, began on the Blue Network in 1942, adapted from the All-American Comics character, and continued on ABC and Mutual until 1948.
The run
- Network
- ABC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 55
- Genre
- suspense
Old Time Radio Programs "Sunrise and Sunset, Promise and Fulfilment, Birth and Death, The whole Drama of Life is played out in the Sands of Time" This is a great series where the main theme seems to be Retribution. Imported from Austrailia it ran from 1946 until 1948. Stories as told by Father Time. Sort of like Twilight Zone for the radio. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “TheClock”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1947 · 101946 · 2
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: TheClock
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 9 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1941
1942
1943
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1946
1947
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1949
1950
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. CLOCK 46 11 10ep02 The Actor · 10 Nov 1946
- 2. CLOCK 46 12 08ep06 Jungle Drums · 8 Dec 1946
- 3. CLOCK 47 01 05ep10 Reference · 5 Jan 1947
- 01
CLOCK 46 11 10ep02 The Actor
10 Nov 1946 · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
CLOCK 46 12 08ep06 Jungle Drums
8 Dec 1946 · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
CLOCK 47 01 05ep10 Reference
5 Jan 1947 · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
CLOCK 47 02 02ep14 The Bank V
2 Feb 1947 · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
CLOCK 47 03 09ep18 The Good V
9 Mar 1947 · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
CLOCK 47 04 06ep22 Man With the Strange Trunk
6 Apr 1947 · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
CLOCK 47 05 04ep26 Guilty as Always
4 May 1947 · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
CLOCK 47 06 15ep32 Island Paradise
15 Jun 1947 · 22 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
14 Jul 1947
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 14 Jul 1947.
Sky King
Sky King began on ABC in 1946 and moved to Mutual, following Schuyler "Sky" King, an Arizona rancher and former navy flyer who used his aircraft the Songbird to run down rustlers and fugitives.
Also on ABC
ABC in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while The Clock was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Clock
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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