Ellery Queen: The Adventure of the Income Tax Robbery (EP4354)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 12, 1942
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Originating in New York
Starring: Carleton Young as Ellery Queen; Marian Shockley; Ted De Corsia; Santos Ortega; Maurice Tarplin
Armchair Detectives: Manda Hedrom and Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore (Over the phone, not heard on broadcast)
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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, |
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| 0:46.3 | detectives and check us out on Instagram Instagram |
| 0:50.8 | dot com slash great detectives if you're enjoying Instagram. I do want to encourage you to check out our other podcast and this week I'm highlighting the old time radio snack wagon. |
| 1:08.3 | This is my newest old time radio podcast where we bring you all sorts of rare and interesting old-time radio programs in bite-sized chunks. |
| 1:20.0 | It's a great opportunity to experience some lesser known gems. |
| 1:24.7 | Here's some really unique performances. |
| 1:27.6 | This season already we've featured a rare gospel music program, dug into the origins of the Who's on First comedy routine, and heard a recording of a real silver star winner. |
| 1:41.5 | With the old time radio Snack Wagon, we're playing either short, 15 minute or less programs or were playing excerpts from longer programs. |
| 1:51.0 | And you can subscribe to the Old time radio snack wagon wherever you get your |
| 1:55.7 | podcast or at snack wagon.net. But now we're going to get into today's episode of Elery Queen. Now we've featured |
| 2:05.0 | featured Ellery Queen back in season six. |
| 2:10.5 | And of course Ellery Queen is such an iconic character. |
| 2:14.6 | A very successful series of books, multiple movies, multiple TV shows, and to this day the |
| 2:21.7 | Ellery Queen magazine is one of those icons of mystery writing and |
| 2:28.0 | mystery publishing. |
| 2:29.7 | And we played through all the radio shows that I could find back at the time. We played 16 Golden Age American radio program, a special one hour recreation that the Ford Theater did of |
| 2:45.1 | 1949 from Ellery Queen's first season on the air and one Australian |
| 2:51.4 | episode and I was done and then I came across a rare little |
| 2:57.3 | episode which was a public service program for the Office of War Information. |
| 3:04.0 | And I thought we were just going to play that one episode. |
| 3:08.0 | However, as I was getting ready to record the commentary for that episode. I found an old time radio |
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