Charlie Chan: Colonel's Son is a Murder Suspect/Simmon's Confrontation About Identity (EP4776)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1936
Originating from Los Angeles
Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Charlie Chan. |
| 0:41.1 | But first, I want to encourage you if you're enjoying the podcast to please follow us using your favorite podcast software. |
| 0:48.7 | I also want to take an opportunity to let you know about one of our other podcasts, and I'm highlighting the Great Adventurers of |
| 0:55.9 | Old Time Radio. It's our newest effort, featuring two great adventure episodes per week, |
| 1:02.8 | and you Flash Gordon and Cloak and Dagger. Check it out at greatadventures. Info. Now we are |
| 1:09.8 | moving on to a shorter Charlie Chan serial. This is once |
| 1:15.6 | again a partial. We're kind of coming in in the middle, but I think the recaps do a good job |
| 1:22.3 | explaining what's happened to date. In addition, we are only going to have three weeks with this particular |
| 1:30.4 | serial, so it's not going to be another Landini murder mystery thing, so much shorter story, |
| 1:37.6 | as we try to untangle the murder of Colonel Willoughby. Now, there are often dates given for this series for September and October 1936, |
| 1:49.8 | and I'm not entirely sure that that is accurate, given that it assumes that the serials are played once a week, |
| 1:57.4 | which was not generally the way that these 15-minute shows were aired, generally like |
| 2:02.3 | three times a week. But we will go ahead and say that these episodes are from 1936, and the episodes |
| 2:08.5 | are known as the Colonel's son is murder suspect and Simmons' confrontation about identity. |
| 2:16.9 | Music about identity. |
| 2:39.3 | The most delightfully fascinating character in the realms of mystery, Earl Durbiggers Charlie Chan. |
| 3:53.1 | The The I'm gonna... ...and... Oh, and so... Inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police force is engaged in trying to solve the murder of Colonel Willoughby. |
| 3:57.7 | The elderly colonel had been struck down in the hallway of Mr. Blake's house in San Francisco. |
| 4:02.8 | Inspector Chan feels that the murder had some connection with the colonel's search for his son, |
| 4:05.7 | who had supposedly committed suicide during the war. |
| 4:11.2 | Simmons, Mr. Blake's butler, falls under suspicion, since he steadfastly refuses to talk. |
| 4:15.1 | But Inspector Chan is convinced that Simmons did not commit murder. |
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