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The Fat Man

Broadcast · 1946 · Seasonal

ABC

ABC · 1946–1951

Broadcasts

40

Cadence

Seasonal

Rated

PG

Since

1946

The run

Network
ABC
Years active
1946–1951
Surviving broadcasts
40
Genre
mystery

The Fat Man ran on ABC from 1946 to 1951, built by Dashiell Hammett around private investigator Brad Runyon and opening each week by weighing its hero on a penny scale. 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

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: TheFatMan_319

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 6 years on the air, with 6 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

JFMAMJJASOND
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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