Believe It or Not
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
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
85 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 89 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 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. Night Broadcast · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. Sign Off · 3 Dec 2024
- 01
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 18 min
- 02
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 33 min
- 03
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 48 min
- 04
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m
- 05
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 26 min
- 06
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 41 min
- 07
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 56 min
- 08
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 19 min
Also on NBC / CBS
NBC / CBS in 1930–1955
Other series the network carried while Believe It or Not was on the air.
Same seasons
variety on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
If you liked this
More to explore
Chosen by the same editors.
