152
classic episodes of Nick Carter, Master Detective
75 classic episodes of
I Was A Communist For The FBI
633 more bonus classic Old Time
Radio Shows
ALL KNOWN EPISODES TO EXIST.
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like many others.
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Nick Carter, Master Detective:
Nick Carter, Master Detective was a Mutual radio crime drama
based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter
from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Nick
Carter first came to radio as The Return of Nick Carter, a
reference to the character's pulp origins, but the title was
soon changed to Nick Carter, Master Detective. A veteran radio
dramatist, Ferrin Fraser, wrote many of the scripts.
With Lon Clark in the title role, the series commenced 11 April
1943, on Mutual, continuing in many different timeslots for well
over a decade. Between October 1944 and April 1945, it was heard
as a 30-minute program on Sunday afternoons at 3pm, sponsored by
Acme Paints and Lin-X, with a 15-minute serial airing four or
five times a week in 1944 from April to September. In April
1945, the Sunday series moved to 6pm, continuing in that
timeslot until June 1946, and it was also heard in 1946 on
Tuesday from March to August.
Sponsored by Cudahy Packing and Old Dutch Cleanser and later
Acme Products (makers of such home-improvement chemicals as Kem-Tone
paints and Lin-X floor-cleaning waxes, a near-rival to the
more-popular Johnson's Wax products heard on numerous NBC Radio
shows at the same time), the series finally settled in on
Sundays at 6:30pm for broadcasts from August 18, 1946 to
September 21, 1952. Libby Packing was the sponsor when the drama
aired on Sundays at 6pm (1952-53). In the last two years of the
long run (1953-55), the show was heard Sundays at 4:30pm.
Jock MacGregor was the producer-director of scripts by Alfred
Bester, Milton J. Kramer, David Kogan and others. Background
music was supplied by organists Hank Sylvern, Lew White and
George Wright. Walter B. Gibson, co-creator/writer of The Shadow
pulp novels, was fired when he asked for a raise in 1946, and
then became head writer for the Nick Carter radio series. Oddly
enough, he never liked to write scripts for the radio version of
The Shadow, though both characters were published by Street &
Smith.
Patsy Bowen, Nick's assistant, was portrayed by Helen Choate
until mid-1946; then Charlotte Manson stepped into the role.
Nick and Patsy's friend was reporter Scubby Wilson (John Kane).
Sgt. Mathison (Ed Latimer) was Nick's contact at the police
department. The supporting cast included Raymond Edward Johnson,
Bill Johnstone and Bryna Raeburn. Michael Fitzmaurice was the
program's announcer. The series ended on September 25, 1955.
I Was A
Communist For The FBI:
I Was a Communist
for the FBI is a 1951 American film noir crime film
directed by Gordon Douglas starring Frank Lovejoy,
Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey and James Millican.
It was also a radio show starring Dana Andrews with 78
episodes that ran from Apr 23, 1952 until Oct 14, 1953.
The film was based on a series of stories written by
Matt Cvetic that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
The stories were later turned into a best-selling book
and radio series.
The story follows Cvetic, who infiltrated a local
Communist Party cell for nine years and reported back to
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on their
activities.
The film and radio show are, in part, artifacts of the
McCarthy era, as well as a time capsule of American
society during the Second Red Scare. The purpose of both
is partly to warn people about the threat of Communist
subversion of American society. The tone of the show is
ultra-patriotic, with Communists portrayed as racist,
vindictive, and tools of a totalitarian foreign power,
the Soviet Union.
Matt Cvetic (Frank Lovejoy), who works in a Pittsburgh
steel mill, has been infiltrating the Communist Party
for the FBI in Pittsburgh for nine years. During this
time he has been unable to tell his family about his
dual role, so they believe he is a Communist and despise
him.
He becomes emotionally involved with a Communist school
teacher (Dorothy Hart), who is becoming disenchanted
with the party. She breaks with the party when it
foments a violent strike. Cvetic helps her escape the
Communists in violent sequences in which two Communists
and an FBI agent are killed.
Communists are portrayed in the film as cynical
opportunists, racists who are interested only in seizing
power on behalf of the Soviets and not in improving
social and labor conditions in the U.S. They are shown
exploiting ethnic tensions to get their way, such as by
wrapping copies of a Jewish newspaper around lead pipes
used to beat up people during a strike. They also are
shown fomenting discontent among blacks.
The Communists in the film are also shown to be violent
thugs who kill informers.
Cvetic ultimately testifies against the Communists
before the House Un-American Activities Committee and
reconciles with his brother and son.
Bonus Radio Shows:
As a sampler of our old
time radio library, we are including these
classic old time radio shows on this DVD-ROM at no extra charge:
33 Half Moon Street |
Crisis in War Town |
Heroes of Civilization |
Black and Blue, Detectives |
Cruise of the Poll Parrot |
Heroes of the Merchant Marine |
Black Flame |
Diamond Dramas |
High Moment |
Black Mass |
Don Juan in Hell |
Hildegarde's Radio Room |
Black Museum |
Double Play |
Hilltop House |
Blair of the Mounties |
Downbeat |
Horizons West |
Chick Carter Boy Detective |
Hawthorne |
Host Planet Earth |
Consider Your Verdict |
Hercule Poirot |
I Deal in Crime |
Crisis |
Here's to Romance |
I Hate Crime |