Straight Arrow
Mutual
Mutual · 1948–1951
Broadcasts
30
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1948
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1948–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 30
- Genre
- western
Straight Arrow ran on Mutual from 1948 to 1951, with Howard Culver as Steve Adams, a rancher who rode as the Comanche hero Straight Arrow. The Nabisco Shredded Wheat sponsorship and its card premiums made the show a fixture of postwar children's radio. These recordings stream from the Internet Archive.
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
8 dated broadcasts across 79 years on the air, with 78 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Signal at Midnight · 13 Jan 2026
- 2. The Last Train Out · 20 Jan 2026
- 3. Night Broadcast · 27 Jan 2026
- 01
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 56 min
- 02
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 19 min
- 03
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 34 min
- 04
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 49 min
- 05
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 4m
- 06
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 27 min
- 07
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 42 min
- 08
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 57 min
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1948–1951
Other series the network carried while Straight Arrow was on the air.
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