The Our star on the podcast this week is the one and only Frank Sinatra.

No, this isn't a musical episode.

Sinatra won't be singing today, but he will be solving crimes as Rocky Fortune.

For one season, Old Blue Eyes starred in his own Radio Detective Series, his only regular dramatic role on the air.

It's an interesting chapter in the singer's illustrious career,

and it's an enormously entertaining program to boot.

1953 was a transitional year for Frank Sinatra.

His career had been in a decline since the late 1940s,

and he and Ava Gardner, who were married in 1950 after a scandalous affair, announced their separation.

However, it also marked the start of a comeback.

The singer signed with capital records where he would go on to record some of his most celebrated albums

and he was cast and from here to eternity.

In the middle of these ups and downs was Rocky Fortune.

A regular dramatic radio series might not have been in the cards for Sinatra only a few years earlier,

but as his star began to fade, the prospect of a series as a headliner week after week probably looked more appealing.

The series was created for Sinatra by writer George Lefferts, who later recalled that at their initial meeting at Sinatra's home, the singer

was clad in nothing but a towel. Leffert's penned scripts for Dimension X, and he would be one of the creative forces behind that Sci-Fi Program's

Revival series, X-1.

George Leffertz wrote the bulk of the episodes of Rocky Fortune, along with Ernest Kanoy, another in-house NBC

radio writer.

Both men would go on to successful careers in television, picking up Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for their work.

Each episode found Rocky, Footloose, Fancy Free, and frequently unemployed, starting a new job

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