Cloak & Dagger - "Seeds Of Doubt" (09-15-50)

Seeds Of Doubt (Aired September 15, 1950)

One of the few solo productions that Wyllis Cooper undertook for NBC. It was also Cooper's first collaboration with British crime journalist Percy Hoskins, who would work with Cooper yet again on NBC's WHItehall-1212 a year hence. The combination of Hoskin's unfailingly accurate research and Cooper's lively, fast-paced writing and direction proved to be an excellent underpinning for an espionage adventure drama based on factual events. The Office of Strategic Services--the progenitor of our Central Intelligence Agency--was one of American History's most colorful and compelling World War II intelligence gathering efforts. It was also, quite understandably, one of our most secret undertakings. Given that backdrop it's very instructive that during the run up to the Cold War years, NBC would attempt to air a fact-based espionage anthology.

THIS EPISODE:
 
September 15, 1950. NBC network. "Seeds Of Doubt". Sustaining. 8:00 P. M. An O. S. S. operative travels to liberated Paris to replace a dead friend as a spy...and as a husband! His mission is to uncover Nazis disguised as American soldiers. The final promotional announcement and system cue have been deleted. Ken Field (writer), Manny Segal (sound effects), Corey Ford (creator), Alistair MacBain (creator), Joseph Julian, Karl Weber, Evie Juster, Jerry Jarrett, Louis Sorin, Horace Braham, Anna Karen, Jon Gart (music director), John Powers (sound effects), Don Abbott (engineer), Louis G. Cowan (producer), Alfred Hollander (producer), Sherman Marks (director, supervisor), Charles Webster, Alice Frost. 29:28. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.