Cloak and Dagger
Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 August 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1950–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 158
- Genre
- kids
Comic Weekly Man aired from 1947 to 1954 and was a show where the Comic Weekly Man would read the Sunday comics in a dramatic fashion, complete with music and sound effects as well. Adults and children of all ages would tune in to hear the show and to enjoy the antics of the Comic Weekly Man .
1953 · 21952 · 31951 · 51950 · 2
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 45 of 45
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_Comic_Weekly_Man_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
1951
1952
1953
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. CWM ep172 Very Hot First Comic Snookums · 6 Aug 1950
- 2. CWM ep191 Christmas in One Week First Comic Snookums · 17 Dec 1950
- 3. CWM 51-02-25 ep201 Dog Got Diploma, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy · 25 Feb 1951
- 01
CWM ep172 Very Hot First Comic Snookums
6 Aug 1950 · 28 min
Broadcast 6 August 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
CWM ep191 Christmas in One Week First Comic Snookums
17 Dec 1950 · 28 min
Broadcast 17 December 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
CWM 51-02-25 ep201 Dog Got Diploma, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy
25 Feb 1951 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Comic_Weekly_Man_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
CWM ep210 At Sea Riddle First Comic Hopalong Cassidy
29 Apr 1951 · 28 min
Broadcast 29 April 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
CWM 51-08-05 ep224 Stork Brings Baby, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy
5 Aug 1951 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Comic_Weekly_Man_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
CWM 51-11-04 ep237 After Halloween, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy
4 Nov 1951 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Comic_Weekly_Man_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
CWM ep244 Christmas Rhyme First Comic Hopalong Cassidy
23 Dec 1951 · 28 min
Broadcast 23 December 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 08
CWM 52-02-17 ep252 Girlfriends Father, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy
17 Feb 1952 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Comic_Weekly_Man_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
6 Aug 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Aug 1950.
Top Secret
Broadcast 6 August 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Under Arrest
Broadcast 6 August 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1950–1953
Other series the network carried while The Comic Weekly Man 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
Working in the tradition of The Comic Weekly Man
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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