Manhunt radio transcripts
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 40 transcripts of episodes of the detective radio program Manhunt dating from July 1950 to May 1951.
Dates
- Creation: 1950 - 1951
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Access
The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the authors of the items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. For photocopy and duplication requests, please contact the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries.
Biographical / Historical
Manhunt was a 1943-44 syndicated radio series. Each episode ran fifteen minutes with commercials and was a pretty simple puzzle mystery. The series was early series produced by syndication king Frederick Ziv. The episodes were in the format of murder committed or dead body found and then the police work backwards with the clues to find the murderer.
Extent
.6 Linear Feet (2 boxes) ; 26 x 13 x 32 cm
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Radio scripts arranged by date presumably of the show’s public airing.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Carolyn L. Kantner, c. 2000.
Processing Information
Materials were processed by Susan Bogner, Special Collections Intern: Summer 2010.
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Manhunt radio transcripts
- Status
- 4 Published And Cataloged
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Susan Bogner.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository