Friday, June 26, 2009

Boxcars711Old Time Radio Pod - The New Adventures Of Nero Wolf "Stamped For Murder" (10-20-50)


Stamped For Murder (Aired October 20, 1950)


Nero Wolf is a fictional detective created by American author Rex Stout in the 1930s and featured in dozens of novels and novellas.In the stories, Wolfe is one of the most famous private detectives in the United States. He weighs about 285 pounds and is 5'11" tall. He raises orchids in a rooftop greenhouse in his New York City brownstone on West 35th Street, helped by his live-in gardener Theodore Horstmann. Wolfe drinks beer throughout the day and is a gourmâ??und. He employs a live-in chef, Fritz Brenner. He is multilingual and brilliant, though apparently self-educated, and reading is his third passion after food and orchids. He works in an office in his house and almost never leaves home, even to pursue the detective work that finances his expensive lifestyle. Instead, his leg work is done by another live-in employee, Archie Goodwin. While both Wolfe and Goodwin are licensed detectives, Goodwin is more of the classic fictional gumshoe, tough, wise-cracking, and skirt-chasing. He tells the stories in a breezy first-person narrative that is semi-hard-boiled in style.


THIS EPISODE:

October 20, 1950. NBC network origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Stamped For Murder". A phoney treasure map is still worth $10,000 and several murders to a team of swindlers...why? Alfred Bester (writer), Don Stanley (announcer), Edwin Fadiman (executive producer?), Herb Vigran, Howard McNear, J. Donald Wilson (producer, director), Jay Novello, Jeanne Bates, Joseph Eamon (music?), Lawrence Dobkin, Rex Stout (author, Chairman Of The Writer's War Board), Sydney Greenstreet, Wally Maher, William Johnstone. 25 minutes.

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