# Adventure Ahead

Networks named by its archives: NBC. Heard 1944. 12 episodes.

ADVENTURE AHEAD! Adventure Ahead! was a brilliant Summer feature for 1944. Comprised of fourteen stirring adventure novels and stories from among America's greatest fiction writers, its somewhat more masculine orientation may have kept some of the young females of the era listening to Frank Sinatra that summer instead of Adventure Ahead!. But it was indeed billed as 'famous stories for young people', not 'famous stories for young men'. And yet, how any rational programmer at NBC-Red could have construed the slant of this project to young people is anyone's guess. There's no discernible love interest, there are female protagonists, nor any female authorities or mentors for that matter. Of course this was the 1940s after all, still in the throes of the fight for equality on many fronts. It's just quite obvious that NBC-Red programmers were simply completely out of touch with their era. That having been said, each of these literary choices did have a uniting theme--defending Freedom, domestically and abroad. To be fair to NBC's programmers, there were several jingoistic, over the top, almost fascist 'public service programs' geared toward every facet of domestic population at one time or another during the World War II years and the Cold War Years that followed. So overlooking the slant for the time being, let's focus in on the selected stories and their themes. Virtually all of these stories were male-oriented, 'coming of age' tales of one type or another. Dana's Two Years…

## Sets

- Adventure Ahead - Single Episodes (Old Time Radio Researchers): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles
- Adventure Ahead 11 Eps (Old Time Radio): Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/AdventureAhead

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [Two Years Before the Mast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/410589e8d162), aired 5 August 1944 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-08-05_ep01_Two_Years_Before_the_Mast.mp3
1. [The Story of a Bad Boy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/29c7c80499b7), aired 19 August 1944 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-08-19_ep03_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy.mp3
1. [Inside the FBI](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/38cf99a4a6d9), aired 26 August 1944 (28 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-08-26_ep04_Inside_the_FBI.mp3
1. [Robinson Crusoe](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/432161dcee58), aired 2 September 1944 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-09-02_ep05_Robinson_Crusoe.mp3
1. [A Tooth for Paul Revere](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/2dc872fc3af1), aired 9 September 1944 (28 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-09-09_ep06_A_Tooth_for_Paul_Revere.mp3
1. [Toby Tyler, or 10 Weeks with a Circus](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/6a96622ef390), aired 16 September 1944 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-09-16_ep07_Toby_Tyler_or_10_Weeks_with_a_Circus.mp3
1. [Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/183b676364dd), aired 16 September 1944 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/AdventureAhead/Aa1944-09-16007TobyTylerOrTenWeeksWithACircus.mp3
1. [The Talking Drums](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/25aee979c3c4), aired 23 September 1944 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-09-23_ep08_The_Talking_Drums.mp3
1. [The Biscuit Eater](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/42600b252c21), aired 30 September 1944 (28 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-09-30_ep09_The_Biscuit_Eater.mp3
1. [Hill Lawyer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/d3611c556b55), aired 14 October 1944 (28 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-10-14_ep11_Hill_Lawyer.mp3
1. [One of the 28th](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/db98308412cc), aired 21 October 1944 (28 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-10-21_ep12_One_of_the_28th.mp3
1. [Greenmantle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/adventure-ahead/a03d11991d22), aired 28 October 1944 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Adventure_Ahead_Singles/Adventure_Ahead_44-10-28_ep13_Greenmantle.mp3

A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.

Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is.