[3] On February 4, 1935, it was picked up by CBS Radio, airing in 15 minute episodes four times a week.
From April 29, 1939, "Dick Tracy" became a half-hour-long prime time radio serial, airing at 5:00 pm.
[1] Like many children's radio shows at the time, Dick Tracy had its own fan club, which offered premiums.
[3] The beginning of the May 1, 1945 episode ("The Case of the Empty Safe") was interrupted on the Blue Network for a special news flash relating that Adolf Hitler had "died of a stroke."
Copies of this episode, complete with the mistaken news flash—Hitler had committed suicide the day before, not died of a stroke—still exist today.