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Believe It or Not

Broadcast · 1930 · Weekly

NBC / CBS

NBC / CBS · 1930–1955

Broadcasts

364

Cadence

Weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1930

The run

Network
NBC / CBS
Years active
1930–1955
Surviving broadcasts
364
Genre
variety

Ripley's cabinet of curiosities, read aloud: the unlikeliest true stories in the world, dramatised for a nation that wanted to be astonished. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.

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: Believe_It_Or_Not

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 26 years on the air, with 26 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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