The There were more than a few radio detectives who went on international adventures.

Richard Diamond, Johnny Dollar, and Dan Holliday of Box 13 all got their passports stamped in the course of their

investigations and secret agents like the man called X and Steve Mitchell of

dangerous assignment made globe trotroting a weekly occurrence.

But there were a few radio sloths who made their permanent homes overseas.

One was Bob O'Hara, a foreign correspondent based out of Hong Kong who frequently found danger as he searched

for stories.

Narrating his adventures as he went along, O'Hara played Detective as much as he played

reporter.

He was chummy with people on both sides of the law, and he had a number of connections in the

clubs and gambling dens in the seedier parts of the city.

O'Hara premiered over the CBS West Coast Network in April 1951, and it starred Jack Moils,

an actor who was no stranger to stories of international intrigue.

He had also played Cairo club owner Rocky Jordan on that CBS West Coast Mystery Series.

According to the O'Hara radiologue by historian Stuart Wright,

Moil's first two O'Hara episodes were reworked scripts from Rocky Jordan,

switching the locale from Egypt to China.

Only one of Moil's O'Hara episodes survives, and his

performance sounds very similar to that of Rocky Jordan, which is by no means a bad

thing. As O'Hara, Moils sounds tough and scrappy. It's easy to

imagine him chain-smoking cigarettes, hunched over a typewriter as he bangs out

another story, or to picture him navigating his way through the crowded

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