Bulldog Drummond: Hijackers (EP4396)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Audition Date: September 28, 1941
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| 0:00.0 | The The Welcome to the great detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho this is your host Adam Graham if you have a comment email it to me |
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| 0:57.0 | As I'm going to discuss after the podcast, episodes of Bulldog Drummond are hard to corral particularly with |
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| 1:36.7 | just send your email to detectives at radio archives.com Well now it is time for us to get into Bulldog Drummond. |
| 1:48.0 | The character of Bulldog Drummond was created by British novelist 8C McNeil in his eponymous novel. |
| 1:57.0 | He was styled as a brutalized veteran of the First World War who was bored with a life of leisure and put an ad in the paper craving |
| 2:05.8 | adventure. |
| 2:06.8 | Don't know whether he was in the same paper as Tommy and Tuppence, but anyway, the novels were a success and became the subject of films on both sides of The Atlantic. |
| 2:19.0 | The most noteworthy of these were the two films starring Ronald Coleman as |
| 2:24.8 | Drummond for United Artists in 1929 and 34 |
| 2:29.5 | and the B movie series that initially starred Ray Mulland and later John Howard for Paramount |
| 2:36.1 | in the late 1930s. The character was a natural to come to radio as well. The first |
| 2:42.4 | actor to portray him was George |
| 2:44.6 | Chloris, a British stage actor whose big break came when he encountered |
| 2:50.8 | Orson Wells while they were both in a play on Broadway. |
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