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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Ellery Queen: The Green Gorillas (EP4366)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: Ellery Queen teams up with a teenage boy to infiltrate a street gang.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 12, 1947

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0:00.0

Coming up this week on the old time radio snack wagon.

0:04.4

The echoing hoof beats of the ghost rider should never end.

0:07.4

They should thrive from the pulses of every American and live in his memory from family to family generation to generation.

0:15.0

Perhaps ghost should be seen and not heard,

0:18.0

but this is one your whole family should hear about.

0:21.0

Listen to the old time radio snack wagon

0:23.4

snack wagon dot net or wherever you get your podcast. Oh, The Welcome to the great detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it to me.

1:06.5

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1:15.0

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1:18.8

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1:25.0

I do want to encourage you to check out our other podcast and today I am highlighting

1:30.0

The War. It is our World War II podcast. It's something I did a decade ago, but if you're really

1:37.0

interested in understanding the history behind World War II, it's a unique experience. We take a look at World War II through radio.

1:46.3

And we don't just go through news programs, we use comedies, we use dramas, we use public information

1:52.3

programs, music, all to kind of tell this overarching story,

1:57.0

starting with the pre-war era with anti-war sentiment and isolationist feeling leading into the war and then all the way

2:05.6

through to the post-war era. You can check it out over at the war dot great

2:10.8

detectives dot net. Well now we're going to get into this week's dot visit by bringing you the earliest of the Carlton Young episodes.

2:24.4

This actually is the earliest of the Larry Dobkin episodes available.

2:29.6

Marion Shockley had left the series already having been replaced by Charlotte King.

2:36.0

But the 1946-47 radio season saw a lot of upheaval on Ellery Queen. It did start out with the previous of Santos Ortega was replaced by Bill Smith as Inspector Queen.

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