The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
NBC
NBC · 1934–1949
Broadcasts
39
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1934
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1934–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 39
- Genre
- kids
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell brought Gilbert Patten's dime-novel hero — the clean-living Yale sportsman — to NBC, first in the mid-1930s and again in a Saturday-morning run from 1946 to 1949 with Lawson Zerbe in the title role. These public-domain transfers come from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
5 dated broadcasts across 16 years on the air, with 13 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Confesses In Dark · Date unknown
- 2. Riddle of Wrong Answers · 5 Oct 1946
- 3. Clue of Numbers · 19 Oct 1946
- 01
Confesses In Dark
Date unknown · 14 min
- 02
Riddle of Wrong Answers
5 Oct 1946 · 30 min
- 03
Clue of Numbers
19 Oct 1946 · 30 min
- 04
Big Top Adventure
15 Mar 1947 · 30 min
- 05
Ballot Box Mystery
15 May 1948 · 28 min
- 06
Mystery of Iron Door
22 May 1948 · 29 min
- 07
Missing Mascot
29 May 1948 · 29 min
- 08
Stolen Masterpiece
5 Jun 1948 · 28 min
Same night on the air
15 May 1948
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NBC in 1934–1949
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