Monday, August 18, 2008

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - This Is Your FBI "The Surplus Swindle" (06-28-46)


The Surplus Swindle (Aired June 6, 1946)


This Is Your FBI was a radio crime drama which aired in the United States on ABC from April 6, 1945 to January 30, 1953. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover gave it his endorsement, calling it "the finest dramatic program on the air." Producer-director Jerry Devine was given access to FBI files by Hoover, and the resulting dramatizations of FBI cases were narrated by Frank Lovejoy (1945), Dean Carleton (1946-47) and William Woodson (1948-53). Stacy Harris had the lead role of Special Agent Jim Taylor. Others in the cast were William Conrad, Bea Benaderet and Jay C. Flippen.


THIS EPISODE:

June 28, 1946. ABC network. "The Surplus Swindle". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Society. A phoney army officer and his moll offer a not-so-honest store owner two hundred radios that belong to the army. John Gibson, Frederick Steiner (composer, conductor), Dean Carlton (narrator), Carl Frank (announcer), Frank Faries (writer). 29:31.

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