AWR0200: Cosmo Jones Special (Night Cap Yarns and Studio X)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In The Professor Goes for a Walk, Cosmo Jones walks unarmed behind police lines into the arms of a desperate gang of armed criminals with the goal of getting them to surrender. From Studio X. Original Air Date: 1948
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready for a unique, rare and little known treasures from the Golden Age of Radio. |
| 0:12.9 | You're listening to The Amazing World of Radio with Adam Graham. |
| 0:19.1 | Welcome to the 200th episode of The Amazing World of Radio from Boise, Idaho. |
| 0:25.2 | This is your host, Adam Graham. |
| 0:27.9 | If you have a comment, email it to me, box13atgreatdetectives.net. |
| 0:34.0 | Today's program is being broadcasted on the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio, because |
| 0:41.1 | not only is this a milestone episode, but it does have a bit of a detective tying it. |
| 0:47.5 | Now I'm going to explain some information that may be a bit redundant for those who have |
| 0:52.6 | been listening to The Amazing World of Radio, but bear with me. |
| 0:57.6 | We have been doing a series and of a thousand voices. |
| 1:02.2 | These feature programs starring Paul Freeze and Frank Graham, each who did radio programs, |
| 1:10.9 | where stories were dramatized with them doing all of the voices. |
| 1:15.6 | Frank Graham was the first person to do this sort of program. |
| 1:20.1 | He was known as the one man theater. |
| 1:23.0 | And he started broadcasting these programs in the 1930s. |
| 1:28.4 | And then Paul Freeze did similar programs towards the end of the 1940s. |
| 1:35.0 | Now during Frank Graham's run over the radio, he did a wide variety of different stories, |
| 1:42.0 | including many crime stories. |
| 1:44.2 | And he also created a character, Cosmo Jones. |
| 1:48.4 | And Cosmo Jones was such a popular character that this led to another series, a detective |
| 1:56.3 | series, where Frank Graham played Cosmo Jones and all the other characters. |
| 2:02.1 | In fact it even led to a poverty row film, Cosmo Jones in the crime smasher. |
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