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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Counterspy: Blackmailed Hijacker (A0090)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Performing Arts, Arts, Drama

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today's Adventure: A truck driver is blackmailed into covering the identity of a hijacker and murderer.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 9, 1949

Originating in New York

Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters, Ken Lynch

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the great adventurers of old time radio from Boise, Idaho.

0:11.7

This is your host, Adam Graham.

0:14.4

In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Counter Spy.

0:18.7

But first, I do want to encourage you.

0:20.9

If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software.

0:26.0

Also, today's program is brought you in part by the financial support of our listeners.

0:30.3

You can support the show on a one-time basis, support.greetectives.net.

0:35.4

And become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month at patreon.

0:41.9

Dotcetectives.net. Well, now we're going to get into today's episode, which is one of those titles I'm not a particular fan of, but I'll talk a little bit about why afterwards.

0:56.5

More importantly, though, this episode does mark the start of a streak of consecutive episodes

1:04.1

in circulation. And this is a big deal, because here to four, we brought you 14 episodes spread with,

1:13.9

throughout the first 384 episodes aired.

1:18.1

So we're getting more of a sense of what it was like to listen to the series,

1:22.7

at least if you were listening in 1949.

1:27.3

But let's go ahead

1:29.0

and now from August 9th,

1:31.4

1949, here

1:33.1

is blackmailed hijacker.

1:40.0

That's a cola,

1:41.5

P-E-P-S-I, that's your

1:43.1

smartest cola-by.

1:48.3

Petsa-Cola presents counterspy.

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