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This is your host, Adam Graham.

In a moment, we are going to get into this week's episode of Charlie Chan.

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Well, we are moving quite a few years forward to the next series of Charlie Chan.

And this is a series that aired briefly over the Mutual Network as a summer replacement series.

In 1944, the series starred Ed Begley, senior, I will add for clarity.

Now, I best remember Begley for two things.

Number one is as the first, and in my opinion best, Walt Levinson on Richard Diamond,

and of course as juror number 10 in 12 Angry Men. However, he had a much longer, much more varied career

than that with many honors as a truly great character actor. He won

both an Oscar and a Tony Award for being a best supporting actor. And radio was really a bit of a

foundation for those honors that would come in the late 50s and early 60s.

The articles at the time emphasized the fact that while he starred in Charlie Chan,

he was in the sort of rec company of seven different radio detective programs at the same time,

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