Ep.346 Barrie Craig Confidential Investigator: The Paper Bullets

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Barrie Craig Confidential Investigator William Gargan, who also played the better known television (and radio) detective Martin Kane, was the voice of New York eye Barrie Craig while Ralph Bell portrayed his associate, Lt. Travis Rogers. Craig's office was on Madison Avenue and his adventures were fairly standard PI fare. He worked alone, solved cases efficiently, and feared no man. As the promos went, he was "your man when you can't go to the cops. Confidentiality a specialty." The Paper Bu...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostalgia Mystery Radio.
0:21.5	I'm your host Stevie K.
0:23.4	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows yesteryear.
0:26.7	For this episode, I bring you Barry Craig Confidential Investigator.
0:31.8	Episode title, The Paper Bullets, originally aired December 5th, 1951, where Barry is hired to track down a missing
0:41.0	prize-winning manuscript. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery
0:48.9	radio. Thank you for listening.
1:03.0	William Gargan stars as Barry Craig, confidential investigator.
1:15.3	The old saying early to rise, folks, can't possibly mean a thing to a corpse.
1:27.6	Your Pontiac Dealer presents William Gargan In another transcribed drama of mystery and adventure
1:30.9	With America's number one detective, Barry Craig, confidential investigator.
1:37.1	Thank you. Barry Craig speaking.
1:52.5	The trick in continuing on as a confidential investigator is to keep on good terms with the police.
1:58.8	Comes time for your license renewal, and a department's sawhead can louse it up for you. Play footsie with the police. Comes time for your license renewal, and a department sawhead can louse it up for you.
2:04.0	Play footsy with a corpse, conceal evidence, rack up as many black marks as you must,
2:08.7	but be sure you've got a friend somewhere in the higher echelons.
2:12.7	I say like a lieutenant willing to countersign your renewal application, where it reads character references.
2:20.0	Ah, the fool that I am, Craig, endorsing your application.
2:24.5	Your signature goes down here, Trev. No blotting now. Right neat.
2:29.1	Certifying you as a man of good character. However will I atone for the perjury.
2:33.7	The guilt get too much for you. I can
2:35.6	refer you to a high bridge. Okay, I've signed. You're free to Harrison, otherwise misuse and abuse me
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