Sunday, February 21, 2010

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Barry Craig Confidential Investigator "Ghosts Don't Die In Bed" (09-07-54)


Ghosts Don't Die In Bed (Aired September 7, 1954)


Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator is one of the few detective radio series that had separate versions of it broadcast from both coasts. Even the spelling changed over the years. It was first "Barry Crane" and then "Barrie Craig". NBC produced it in New York from 1951 to 1954 and then moved it to Hollywood where it aired from 1954 to 1955. It attracted only occasional sponsors so it was usually a sustainer.William Gargan, who also played the better known television (and radio) detective Martin Kane, was the voice of New York eye BARRY CRAIG while Ralph Bell portrayed his associate, Lt. Travis Rogers. Craig's office was on Madison Avenue and his adventures were fairly standard PI fare. He worked alone, solved cases efficiently, and feared no man. As the promos went, he was "your man when you can't go to the cops. Confidentiality a speciality."Like Sam Spade, Craig narrated his stories, in addition to being the leading character in this 30 minute show. Nearly sixty episodes are in trading circulation today.


THIS EPISODE:

Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator. September 7, 1954. NBC network. "Ghosts Don't Die In Bed". Sustaining. A strange house on a stormy night, and a corpse in the library. The corpse is from an eighty year old murder! The last show of the season. William Gargan, Betty Lou Gerson, Virginia Gregg, Jack Moyles, Charlie Lung, Louis Vittes (writer), Arthur Jacobson (director), John Laing (announcer). 29:34.

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