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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
04.20.1951	the big fix	+ This Is Your FBI. April 20, 1951. "The Big Fix". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Soci...
11.11.1949	the big caseout
11.30.1945	the big breakout	+ All criminals suffer from the same organic disorder... Enlargement of the ego. Sooner or later it ...
08.01.1947	the benevolent hijacker	+ This Is Your FBI. August 1, 1947. "The Benevolent Hijacker". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life As...
11.03.1950	the baffled book keeper
08.24.1951	the bad smaritan	+ This Is Your FBI. August 24, 1951. Program #333. "The Bad Samaritan". Sponsored by: The Equitable...
11.10.1950	the backstage shakedown	+ This Is Your FBI. November 10, 1950. "The Backstage Shakedown". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life...
03.18.1949	the baby rental racket	+ This Is Your FBI. March 18, 1949. "The Baby Rental Racket". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Ass...
11.28.1952	the baby peddler	+ This Is Your FBI. November 28, 1952. "The Baby Peddlers". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assur...
01.31.1947	the baby bigshot
11.16.1945	the allotment swindle	+ Our story this evening opens in a small, unattractively furnished apartment in the West side of Ne...
08.11.1950	the agent apprentice	+ This Is Your FBI. August 11, 1950. Program #279. "The Agent Apprentice". Sponsored by: The Equit...
08.10.1951	the adopted thief
03.23.1951	success story	+ This Is Your FBI. March 23, 1951. Program #311. "Success Story". Sponsored by: The Equitable Lif...
12.19.1952	snow screen	+ This Is Your FBI. December 19, 1952. Program #402. "Snow Screen". Sponsored by: The Equitable Li...
03.08.1945	skyway swindle	+ This Is Your FBI. March 8, 1946. "The Skyway Swindle". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assuranc...
04.26.1946	salesman of espionage	+ Producer-director Jerry Devine was given access to FBI files by J Edgar Hoover, and the resulting ...
08.10.1945	robert perry impersonator	+ This Is Your FBI. August 10, 1945. Program #125. ABC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Robert Pe...
11.22.1946	return of the killer	+ This Is Your FBI. November 22, 1946. "The Return Of The Killer". Sponsored by: The Equitable Lif...
11.24.1950	quartet in crime	+ This Is Your FBI. November 24, 1950. Program #294. "Quartet For Crime". Sponsored by: The Equita...
10.06.1950	prisoner of war	+ This Is Your FBI. October 6, 1950. Program #287. "Prisoner Of War". Sponsored by: The Equitable ...
08.03.1951	post time stick up	+ This Is Your FBI. August 3, 1951. Program #330. "The Post Time Stick-Up". Sponsored by: The Equi...
12.12.1952	pickup
12.07.1945	pearl harbor	+ This Is Your FBI. December 7, 1945. Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Society (one comm...
02.17.1950	package of death

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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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