{{Short description|American old-time radio adventure drama}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox radio show | show_name = ''I Fly Anything'' | image = File:Dick Haymes.JPG | imagesize = 250px | caption = Dick Haymes, star of ''I Fly Anything'' | other_names = | format = Adventure drama | runtime = 30 minutes | country = United States | language = English | home_station = | syndicates = ABC | television = | presenter = | starring = Dick Haymes<br>George Fenneman<br>Georgia Ellis | announcer = Jay Arlen<br>Lou Cook | creator = | writer = Arnold Perl<br>Abe Ginniss<br>Les Crutchfield | director = Dwight Hauser<br>Clark Andrews | senior_editor = | editor = | producer = Frank Cooper<br>Sy Fisher | exec_producer = | narrated = | rec_location = | rem_location = | oth_location = | first_aired = {{Start date|1950|11|29}} | last_aired = {{End date|1951|07|19}} | num_series = | num_episodes = | audio_format = | opentheme = | othertheme = | endtheme = | sponsor = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | podcast = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} '''''I Fly Anything''''' is an American old-time radio adventure drama. It was broadcast on ABC from November 29, 1950, until July 19, 1951.<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22I+Fly+Anything,+adventure+drama%22&pg=PA336 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=336 |edition=Revised |access-date=2019-10-09}}</ref>
Dockery Crane was a freelance pilot who used his Douglas DC-4 plane for any job that was legal and would earn money. He was assisted by co-pilot Buzz and secretary June.<ref name="rp">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows|date=1999|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|isbn=978-0-7864-4513-4|pages=160–161}}</ref>
''I Fly Anything'' was unusual in that it featured two men who were not known primarily as actors. Dick Haymes, who starred as Crane, was best known for his singing;<ref name=dunningota/> the program was his debut as far as a straight dramatic role was concerned.<ref>{{cite news |title=Radio Highlights |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20694707/i_fly_anything/ |work=The Post-Crescent |date=November 29, 1950 |location=Wisconsin, Appleton |page=30|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 5, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref>
George Fenneman, who played Buzz, was usually heard as an announcer on radio and television.<ref name=dunningota/> He was not in the show's original cast but was first heard in the January 23, 1951, episode,<ref>{{cite news |last1=McHatton |first1=Martha |title=Dick Hayme Flight Drama Back on WISH |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20694906/i_fly_anything/ |work=The Indianapolis News |date=January 23, 1951 |location=Indiana, Indianapolis |page=17|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 5, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> the same one in which Georgia Ellis joined the cast as Crane's secretary.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dick Haymes Back For I Fly Anything |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20696136/i_fly_anything/ |work=The Jackson Sun |date=January 28, 1951 |location=Tennessee, Jackson |page=28|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 5, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref>
Jay Arlen and Lou Cook were the announcers, while Frank Cooper and Sy Fisher were producers.<ref name="rp" /> Dwight Hauser<ref name="dunningota" /> and Clark Andrews directed the program.<ref>{{cite news |title=Haymes to Play Lead in Drama |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20696383/i_fly_anything/ |work=The Winona Republican-Herald |date=November 28, 1950 |location=Minnesota, Winona |page=12|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 5, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> Writers were Arnold Perl, Abe Ginniss, and Les Crutchfield.<ref name="dunningota" />
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== External links ==
===Logs=== *[http://www.otrsite.com/otrsite/logs/logi1024.htm Partial log of episodes of ''I Fly Anything'' from Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322023851/http://www.otrsite.com/otrsite/logs/logi1024.htm |date=March 22, 2016 }} *[http://www.otrr.org/FILES/Logs_txt/I%20Fly%20Anything.txt Partial log of episodes of ''I Fly Anything'' from Old Time Radio Researchers Group] *[https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=I%20Fly%20Anything&type=Programs Partial log of episodes of ''I Fly Anything'' from radioGOLDINdex]
===Streaming=== *[http://www.dumb.com/oldtimeradio/radio/2321/dramas/I_Fly_Anything.html Selected episodes of ''I Fly Anything'' from Dumb.com] *[https://archive.org/details/IFlyAnything Selected episodes of ''I Fly Anything'' from the Internet Archive]
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