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This is Your FBI
Description
Crime drama adapts official case files from investigators' viewpoint, covering fraud, fugitives, sabotage, and crime rings.
This Is Your FBI is a radio crime drama broadcast in the United States on ABC from April 6, 1945, to January 30, 1953, for a total of 409 shows. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover gave it his endorsement, calling it "the finest dramatic program on the air". Dramatizations of FBI cases were narrated by Frank Lovejoy, Dean Carleton and William Woodson. Lawrence MacArthur wrote the episodes. This Is Your FBI was sponsored during its entire run by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
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Showtimes
Original schedule
- 19458:30 PM ETABC · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
Cast & Crew
Carl Frank
Announcer
L
Larry Keating
Announcer
M
Milton J. Cross
Announcer
Amzie Strickland
Cast
CCharlotte Lawrence
Cast
D
Dan Barton
Cast
F
Fred Clark
Cast
G
HGeorge O. Petrie
Cast
Helen Lewis
Cast
HHerbert Rawlinson
Cast
JJoyce McCluskey
Cast
Mandel Kramer
Cast
R
Rusty Morris
Cast
Santos Ortega
Cast
JJerry Devine
Director
FFrederick Steiner
Musician
N
DNathan Van Cleave
Musician
Dean Carlton
Narrator
FFrank Lovejoy
Host, Narrator
G
Geoffrey Bryant
G-Man
Jack Webb
Cast
Karl Swenson
G-Man
Stacy Harris
Agent Jim Taylor
V
Virgil Reimer
Sound Effects
William Woodson
Narrator
F
JFrank Phares
Writer
Jerry D. Lewis
Writer
Audio Clips
0m25s
0m07s
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