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This Is Your FBI, as the title suggests, was a crime drama that featured true cases from FBI, and told from an agent’s viewpoint. The show’s producer and director, Jerry Devine, has previously worked on the radio program of the same genre, Mr. District Attorney. Devine once worked for the FBI, so having him for the show would allow each story to be told the best way possible. Then-FBI chief Edgar Hoover gave him access to the FBI files for the stories used in the show.

The show’s main character was Agent Jim Taylor, who handled crime cases on the West Coast. The basic format of the show was that, 30 minutes were allowed for the presentation of the criminal’s actions, which will be followed up with Taylor’s investigation of the crime. This long-running series starred Frank Lovejoy (and later Dean Carlton and William Woodson) as the narrator, Betty White, and Stacy Harris as Agent Jim Taylor.

The show was heard on ABC for over a decade, from 1945 to 1953, airing a total of 409 episodes. The main sponsor throughout the show’s run was the Equitable Life Assurance Society of USA, which is now called the AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company.

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
05.03.1946	the stinging swindler	+ This Is Your FBI. May 3, 1946. "The Singing Swindler". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assuranc...
05.10.1946	the carnival killer	+ This Is Your FBI. May 10, 1946. "The Carnival Killing". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assuran...
05.17.1946	the fugitive horse player	+ This Is Your FBI. May 17, 1946. "The Fugitive Horseplayer". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Ass...
05.24.1946	the homicide hideout
05.31.1946	the slaughterhouse swindlers
06.07.1946	the sinister lighthouse	+ Producer-director Jerry Devine was given access to FBI files by J Edgar Hoover, and the resulting ...
06.14.1946	flowers for a corpse	+ Producer-director Jerry Devine was given access to FBI files by J Edgar Hoover, and the resulting ...
06.21.1946	the friendly killer	+ This Is Your FBI. June 21, 1946. "The Friendly Killers". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assura...
06.28.1946	the surplus swindler	+ This Is Your FBI. June 28, 1946. "The Surplus Swindle". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assuran...
07.05.1946	the sinister shakedown	+ This Is Your FBI. July 5, 1946. "The Sinister Shakedown". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assur...
07.12.1946	death in the tropics	+ This Is Your FBI. July 12, 1946. "Death In The Tropics". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assura...
07.19.1946	the walkie talkie stick up	+ This Is Your FBI. July 19, 1946. "The Walkie-Talkie Stickups". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life ...
07.26.1946	the sinister witness	+ This Is Your FBI. July 26, 1946. "The Sinister Witness". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assura...
08.02.1946	the would be movie star	+ This Is Your FBI. August 2, 1946. "The Would-Be Movie Star". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life As...
08.09.1946	lady of larceny	+ This Is Your FBI. August 9, 1946. "Lady Of Larceny". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance ...
08.16.1946	the friendly hitchhiker	+ This Is Your FBI. August 16, 1946. "The Friendly Hitchhiker". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life A...
08.23.1946	the careless kidnapper	+ This Is Your FBI. August 23, 1946. "The Careless Kidnapper". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life As...
08.30.1946	the return to the mob	+ This Is Your FBI. August 30, 1946. "Return Of The Mob". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assuran...
09.06.1946	murder on the range	+ This Is Your FBI. September 6, 1946. "Murder On The Range". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Ass...
09.13.1946	death of a draft dodger	+ This Is Your FBI. September 13, 1946. "Death For A Draft Dodger". Sponsored by: The Equitable Li...
09.20.1946	the diamond studded double cross	+ This Is Your FBI. September 20, 1946. "The Diamond-Studded Double-Cross". Sponsored by: The Equi...
09.27.1946	the night of terror	+ This Is Your FBI. September 27, 1946. "The Night Of Terror". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life As...
10.04.1946	the curious coin collector	+ This Is Your FBI. October 4, 1946. "The Curious Coin Collector". Sponsored by: The Equitable Lif...
10.11.1946	the sugar swindler	+ This Is Your FBI. October 11, 1946. "The Sugar Swindler". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assur...
10.18.1946	the big shakedown	+ This Is Your FBI. October 18, 1946. "The Big Shakedown". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assura...

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I like this show

Debra

Always enjoyed the show, though for some reason a lot of the ones I've heard have lower than average volume.

Michael

I have all the shows with the commercials and listen to them

Margaret

This is Your FBI was re-syndicated in 1974-75 by Jay M. Kholos (Rod Serling's Zero Hour). I got to hear a bunch of TIYF episodes that way and they were quite exceptional.

Eric

great crime series.

Christina

I've always enjoyed that series, although the first few episodes of it that I heard were plagued by unusually low volume levels, to the point where I opened some of them in Audacity and increased the volume so I could hear the dialogue.

Michael

Frank Lovejoy "The Pan American Patriots"

Jhon

This series was broadcast on ABC-Radio from 1945 to 1953, always sponsored by Equitable Life Insurance. It featured dramatized stories of true FBI cases. All aspects of the program was approved, and checked by J. Edgar Hoover, who was the head of the FBI. Hoover also appeared on the program many times.

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