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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
11.09.1945	the bogus bankruptcy
11.16.1945	the allotment swindle	+ Our story this evening opens in a small, unattractively furnished apartment in the West side of Ne...
11.23.1945	the bobby sox bandit
11.30.1945	the big breakout	+ All criminals suffer from the same organic disorder... Enlargement of the ego. Sooner or later it ...
12.07.1945	pearl harbor	+ This Is Your FBI. December 7, 1945. Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Society (one comm...
12.14.1945	the highway hijacker
12.21.1945	the sorrowful swindler	+ This Is Your FBI. December 21, 1945. "The Sorrowful Swindler". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life ...
12.28.1945	murder on the high seas	+ The international thief, whose criminal activities were curtailed by wartime restrictions on ocean...
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...
01.11.1946	the innocent killer	+ This Is Your FBI. January 11, 1946. "The Innocent Killer". 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...
01.25.1946	the unwelcome guest	+ This Is Your FBI. January 25, 1946. "The Unwelcome Guest". 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...
02.08.1946	the cautious killer	+ This Is Your FBI. February 8, 1946. "The Cautious Killer". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assu...
02.15.1946	the corrupt city	+ This Is Your FBI. February 15, 1946. "The Corrupt City". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assura...
02.22.1946	the pan american patriots	+ This Is Your FBI. February 22, 1946. "The Pan-American Patriots". Sponsored by: The Equitable Li...
03.01.1946	the castaway killer	+ This Is Your FBI. March 1, 1946. "The Castaway Killer". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assuran...
03.08.1946	the skyway swindle	+ This Is Your FBI. March 8, 1946. "The Skyway Swindle". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assuranc...
03.15.1946	the paroled killer	+ This Is Your FBI. March 15, 1946. "The Paroled Killer". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assuran...
03.22.1946	the wasteland hideout	+ This Is Your FBI. March 22, 1946. "The Wasteland Hideout". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assu...
03.29.1946	the bogus war bride	+ This Is Your FBI. March 29, 1946. "The Bogus War Brides". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assur...
04.05.1946	the deliquent parents	+ This Is Your FBI. April 5, 1946. "The Delinquent Parents". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assu...
04.12.1946	the nylon hijacker	+ This Is Your FBI. April 12, 1946. "The Nylon Hijacker". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assuran...
04.19.1946	the swampland kidnapping	+ Stretching almost from coast to coast across the southern portion of the state Florida is the grea...
04.26.1946	salesman of espionage	+ Producer-director Jerry Devine was given access to FBI files by J Edgar Hoover, and the resulting ...

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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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