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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Please enjoy these 340 old time radio episodes:
| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02.15.1946 | the corrupt city |
+ This Is Your FBI. February 15, 1946. "The Corrupt City". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assura... | |
| 02.08.1946 | the cautious killer |
+ This Is Your FBI. February 8, 1946. "The Cautious Killer". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assu... | |
| 02.01.1946 | the sinister souvenir |
+ This Is Your FBI. February 1, 1946. "The Sinister Souvenir". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life As... | |
| 01.25.1946 | the unwelcome guest |
+ This Is Your FBI. January 25, 1946. "The Unwelcome Guest". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assu... | |
| 01.18.1946 | the cold blooded kidnapper |
+ This Is Your FBI. January 18, 1946. "The Cold-Blooded Kidnapper". Sponsored by: The Equitable Li... | |
| 01.11.1946 | the innocent killer |
+ This Is Your FBI. January 11, 1946. "The Innocent Killer". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assu... | |
| 01.04.1946 | crime in the roaring 20s |
+ It was the delinquent youngsters of 1917 and 1918 who graduated into the seasoned criminals of the... | |
| 12.28.1945 | murder on the high seas |
+ The international thief, whose criminal activities were curtailed by wartime restrictions on ocean... | |
| 12.21.1945 | the sorrowful swindler |
+ This Is Your FBI. December 21, 1945. "The Sorrowful Swindler". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life ... | |
| 12.14.1945 | the highway hijacker | ||
| 12.07.1945 | pearl harbor |
+ This Is Your FBI. December 7, 1945. Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Society (one comm... | |
| 11.30.1945 | the big breakout |
+ All criminals suffer from the same organic disorder... Enlargement of the ego. Sooner or later it ... | |
| 11.23.1945 | the bobby sox bandit | ||
| 11.16.1945 | the allotment swindle |
+ Our story this evening opens in a small, unattractively furnished apartment in the West side of Ne... | |
| 11.09.1945 | the bogus bankruptcy | ||
| 11.02.1945 | the desert dictator |
+ The cynical irony of quick sand is that the more desperately one struggles to escape from it the d... | |
| 10.26.1945 | the servicemans fraud | ||
| 10.19.1945 | the marriage racket |
+ Our story tonight takes us to a pleasant farming community in Iowa. Chris Newton, who owns 200 acr... | |
| 10.12.1945 | the house on 92nd street | ||
| 10.05.1945 | the strange extortion |
+ Hardly a day passes that some person of large income or great wealth does not receive a letter dem... | |
| 09.21.1945 | fugitive killer the scientific conviction |
+ This Is Your FBI. September 21, 1945. "Fugitive Killer". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assura... | |
| 08.17.1945 | bank robbery |
+ This Is Your FBI. June 1, 1945. Blue Network. "Bank Robbery". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Ass... | |
| 08.10.1945 | robert perry impersonator |
+ This Is Your FBI. August 10, 1945. Program #125. ABC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Robert Pe... | |
| 08.03.1945 | extortion |
+ Adolf Hitler was the world’s best-known extortionist his victims were the countries of Europe to... | |
| 07.27.1945 | misery chiseler |
+ Crawling along one of the lower rungs of the criminal ladder is the breed known as the Misery Chis... |
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