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dollars per month. Just go to patreon.greatdetectives.net. Well today we're

going to bring you the only circulating episode of Crime Fighters. Crime Fighters is

one of those series that only has one episode in circulation but actually had a

really long and successful broadcast history. Crime Fighters went to the air

November of 1949 and continued to air until 1956 over the mutual broadcasting system

originating from New York. It was an anthology series with each week focusing on a

different sort of crime fighter. I should note that this episode was in the collection of the

light old-time radio collector Joe Han who passed away in 2020 and before that we had no

American episodes of that series. Now let's go ahead and take a listen to this episode,

original air date January 9th 1950 and the title is New England Detective.

Master man hunters to match master criminals, true experts in a thousand brackets

or simple men who study human nature. There's study dicks who work in teams,

country sheriffs covering lonely races, federal men with a nation to police,

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