Barrie Craig| Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Hard Boiled Mystery Dramas
by Adam Graham · 62 episodes
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Barrie Craig was a different kind of detective show and Craig as played by William Gargan was a different type of detective: a big gentle easy going guy who always believed his clients until evidence proved otherwise.In some ways, it poked fun at the private detective genre by giving Craig police-type powers and duties such as making arrests and filling out paperwork. This played off the wide variety of functions and investigations that other PIs took on that were really police functions. Another time, Craig began his voice over narration by saying, “Manhattan’s my beat,” a clear reference to CBS’...
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32 min
Barrie Craig: Song of Death
Release Date: August 15, 2011Barrie saves a woman from drowning and finds himself in the midst of a lawsuit over a popular song where some party is willing to use violence in pursu…
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31 min
Barrie Craig: Ghost of a Chance
Release Date: August 08, 2011Barrie Craig is hired by an insurance company that suspects it was defrauded when it paid off on an insurance policy for a man who was supposedly hit b…
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32 min
Barrie Craig: Death and the Purple Cow
Release Date: August 01, 2011The sister of a man in trouble hires Barrie to help him out. It all started over a purple cow.Original Air Date: December 12, 1951Support the show mont…
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35 min
Barrie Craig: The Paper Bullets
Release Date: July 25, 2011Barrie is hired to track down a missing prize-winning manuscript.Original Air Date: December 5, 1951Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdete…
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32 min
Barrie Craig: The Case of the Naughty Necklace
Release Date: July 18, 2011Barrie Craig is hired to buy a pearl necklace. He arrives to find the woman he was supposed to buy it from was dead.Original Air Date: November 28, 1951S…
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32 min
Barrie Craig: Murder in Wax
Release Date: July 11, 2011Barrie stumbles onto a death parrot which leads to a corpse. He then gets an invitation to a wax museum exhibit portraying the murder-and his killer.Orig…
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32 min
Barrie Craig: Dead on Arrival
Release Date: July 04, 2011A man is killed over George Washington’s diary while Barrie’s talking to him on the phone.Original Air Date: November 14, 1951Support the show monthly at…
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34 min
Barrie Craig: The Case of the Borrowed Knife
Release Date: June 27, 2011Barrie Craig is hired by a woman to ensure her marriage goes forward.Original Air Date: November 7, 1951Support the show monthly at https://patreon.great…
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33 min
Barrie Craig: Microfilm in the Fishtank
Release Date: June 13, 2011When Barrie’s tailor is killed and and a fire is set to the tailor’s shop. TO find the murder, Barrie investigates the rackets.Original Air Date: October…
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37 min
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator: The Judge and the Champ
Release Date: June 06, 2011Barrie Craig is hired to guard a columnist who has been hinting that a former champion threw a fight. When Craig hears his client murdered, he needs to f…
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34 min
I Deal in Crime: The Abigail Murray Case
Release Date: May 30, 2011Ross Dolan is hired to guard a New England matron as she travels across town. She needs protection as someone shoots in them and a dead body is found in t…
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34 min
I Deal in Crime: The William A. Davis Case
Release Date: May 23, 2011Ross Dolan is hired to bring back his client’s runaway 17-year old daughter, but someone doesn’t want her found.Original Air Date: April 5, 1946Support th…
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32 min
Barrie Craig: Corpse on Delivery
Release Date: June 20, 2011Barrie is hired by a bailbondsman to find a racketeer who has threatened to skip town and leave the bondsman holding the bag for $50,000.Original Air Dat…
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38 min
I Deal in Crime: Bodyguard to Laura Shields
Release Date: May 16, 2011Ross Dolan, just returned from service in World War II gets a job from a woman who wants to protect her from killing her husband.Original Air Date: Januar…
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30 min
Barrie Craig: Two Dead Men
Release Date: July 16, 2012Barrie is protecting a woman’s jewels at a tennis match and then witnesses a tennis player dying by poison.Original Air Date: June 23, 1955Support the sh…
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29 min
Barrie Craig: Sucker Bait
Release Date: July 9, 2012A small college’s strong basketball team loses to two no-account schools feeding talk of the games being fixed.Original Air Date: June 9, 1955Support the…
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28 min
Barrie Craig: Visitor at Midnight
Release Date: July 2, 2012A man visits Barrie at midnight under the cloak of darkness to ask if a murder is unsolvable.Original Air Date: May 12, 1955Support the show monthly at ht…
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29 min
Barrie Craig: Confession to Murder
Release Date: June 25, 2012Barrie arrests a boy for trying to mug him. When the boy confesses to an unsolved robbery and murder, Barrie seeks to clear him.Original Air Date: May 5,…
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31 min
Barrie Craig: Never Murder a Mummy
Release Date: June 18, 2012A mummy sent to Craig’s office sets him on the trail of a very modern murder.Original Air Date: March 30, 1955Support the show monthly at https://patreon…
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27 min
Barrie Craig: Corpse on the Town
Original Release Date: June 11, 2012Barrie Craig investigates a case of a Broadway producer overselling his show, but invariably finds himself investigating a murder.Original Air D…