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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Bulldog Drummond: Blind Man's Bluff (EP4402)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery:Bulldog Drummond investigates a series of murders of blind men situated outside government buildings.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1942

Originating in New York

Starring: Santos Ortega as Bulldog Drummond; Luis van Rooten as Denny

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I do want to encourage you to check out our other podcast. In particular we're highlighting

1:05.9

the amazing world of radio over at amazing. great detectives.net where tomorrow we're getting underway with our summer series,

1:17.2

The Batman Villains of old time radio, a 13 week series highlighting the work of the talented performers who played

1:28.0

Batman villains on the 1966 TV series and the work they did in old time radio.

1:35.0

And we'll also review one episode in which they appeared.

1:39.0

So it's going to be a lot of fun.

1:40.5

Check it out amazing dot great detectives.net and all of our. of Well now we're going to turn to Bulldog Drummond. Well the George

1:56.7

Calorous series of Bulldog Drummond ran for 27 weeks and ended in March of 1942. And from best we can find out,

2:09.0

Santos Ortega took over the lead role in a 42 week series that began most likely on May 25th of

2:17.8

1942.

2:19.8

Now of course it should be said that we have heard Santos Ortega in a lot of supporting

2:27.6

roles.

2:28.6

He was in things like the New York version of yours truly Johnny Dollar and we've heard a few

2:35.4

episodes where he's played the lead most recently in Michael Piper private, but we just don't have much luck with the series in which he played the lead role.

2:51.0

The same is true of Bulldog Drummond. But we do have an episode or two to share with you and we're going to go ahead and start out with this one. Original Air date is September 14th

3:04.4

not team 42 and the title is

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