Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Top Secret - "A Package In Tangiers" (06-25-50)

A Package In Tangiers (Aired June 25, 1950)

INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays The Beetles 

"Till There Was You" (Decca Records)  01-01-62 #3 Hit From The Sound Of Music


The role played by Ilona Massey, a Hungarian-born actress, was created in her likeness, which included her sultry voice and her heavy accent. As a government agent, Massey witnesses train murders, orders poisoned glasses of brandy, and examines the tattoos on a rebellious pigeon. She travels to Tangiers, London, and discovers Nazi spy rings in Berlin. Pack your suitcase, slip into your designer incognito clothiers, and cut your tongue out because Ilona Massey is ready to take you on the top secret mission of a lifetime!6-12-50 to 10-26-50 NBC, various 30 minute timeslots. STAR: Ilona Massey as a Mata Hari-style operative in World War II.  ORCHESTRAL: Roy Shield. WRITER-DIRECTOR: Harry W. Junkin. Top secret was highly effective, said Radio Life: the role played by the Hungarian actress was “tailor-made for her sultry voice and heavy accent”


 

THIS EPISODE:



June 25, 1950. Program #3. NBC network. "A Package In Tangiers". Sustaining. "The Baroness" risks her position as the personal maid to Frau Goring to travel to "The Bazaar Of The Singing Fountain" to find the twelve-year-old boy with the gray hair! The story has a complex, convoluted plot. Ilona Massey is always described as "gorgeous." The series was a summer replacement for, "The American Album Of Familiar Music." Allan Sloane (writer), Bernard Grant, Bryna Raeburn, Carl Emory, Earl Hammond, Fred Collins (announcer), Harry W. Junkin (writer), Ilona Massey, Luis Van Rooten, Roy Shield (composer, conductor), Tommy Frederick. 29:37. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

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