• Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.

Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police

Broadcast History: 1937 to 1938

This adventure series, written by Virginia Cooke, featured Speed Gibson, a fifteen-year-old pilot, whose quest was to capture the master criminal “The Octopus” and his ruthless gang of henchmen. Clint Barlow was Speed’s uncle, an agent of the International Secret Police. Together they flew all over the world in their airship, the “Flying China Clipper”, trying to apprehend the arch villain.

370102 001 OctopusGangActive
 2.72 MB

370109 002 SecretPolice
 2.82 MB

370116 003 HeadingForHongKong
 2.87 MB

370123 004 ShootingAtempt
 2.8 MB

370130 005 OctupusOrdersKidnapping
 2.8 MB

370206 006 RemainingAtWakeIsland
 2.86 MB

370213 007 SpeedIsMissing
 2.86 MB

370220 008 SPLINTERS IN CUSTODY
 2.82 MB

370227 009 SplintersGetsAway
 2.83 MB

370306 010 BarneyFlliesTheMysteryPlane
 2.92 MB

370313 011 TrioAmbushedOnGuam
 2.98 MB

370320 012 OctopusPlansASurprise
 2.98 MB

370327 013 ArrivalInHongKong
 2.85 MB

370403 014 ClinsSuspiciousOfMrWu
 2.95 MB

370410 015 ClintToStayWithDrKingsley
 2.85 MB

370417 016 HotelRoomsAreRansacked
 2.87 MB

370424 017 MarshaIsKidnapped
 2.85 MB

370501 018 TheOctopusRevealsPlans
 2.9 MB

370508 019 DisguisedAsCoolies
 2.93 MB

370515 020 SpeedIsKnockedOut
 2.9 MB

370522 021 LeaveOnABulletPlane
 2.91 MB

370529 022 SpeedTriedToWarnClint
 2.89 MB

370605 023 ShotAtAndForcedDown
 2.99 MB

370612 024 FlowerBoatIsSighted
 3.02 MB

370619 025 PrisonerOnTheFlowerBoat
 3.03 MB

370626 026 Clint&BarneyAreCaptured
 3.04 MB

370703 027 SpeedArrivesAndHelpsClint&Barney
 3.03 MB

370710 028 BobGilmoreSwornIntoSecretPolice
 3.05 MB

370717 029 Speed&BobFlyToHelpDrKingsely
 3.09 MB

370724 030 TheOctopus'sSecretHeadquarters
 3.05 MB

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