Speed Gibson Of The International Secret Police

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September 20, 1937

"The Case Of The World Aginst The Octopus"

"Ceiling zero, ceiling zero, ceiling zero, ceiling zero!" (FX up) Airplane motor drone and mysterious music. Speed is the 15-year-old nephew of Clint Barlow, of the International Secret Police. Orphaned, Speed is a "Typical American boy" who looks upon crime as the height of weakness and cowardice. Barney Dunlap, is his none-too-bright sidekick who helps out, with his favorite expression being, "Suffering Whang-Doodles!" "The Octopus" gang, whom nobody has ever seen, has struck again. The syndication company might be National Radio Attraction-Hollywood Recorded Features. Speed captures "Blackie," the first member of the Octopus gang ever caught. Programs numbered 1 to 100 are about the battle against the evil "Octopus," titled as above. Episode #101 to 178 is titled, "The Atlantian Expedition." The program was usually aired 3 times a week, sometimes 4 times a week (for example: KROW, Oakland/San Francisco); it's possible that some stations ran the show 5 times a week. Not every performer listed below was heard on every episode. The date above is the date of the first known broadcast of episode #1. The subsequent episodes were broadcast on a schedule set by each station locally, so exact broadcast dates are not given. On November 11, 1937, the series was reported to have been sold to Grace Gibson for Australian syndication.

Ed Gardner, Hanley Stafford, John Gibson (as "Barney Dunlap"), Gale Gordon (as "The Octopus"), Virginia Cook (writer), Don Wilson (director), Elliott Lewis, Sam Edwards, Howard McNear

National Radio Advertising syndication

Music fill for local commercial insert

Otherwise complete

15 minutes