The Today Rogue's Gallery is primarily known among old-time radio aficionados as Dick Powell's stepping stone to Richard Diamond. After his critically praised performance as Philip Marlow in Murder My Sweet,

Powell was able to shed his image as a baby-faced crooner,

and he embarked on a new career as a hard-boiled leading man.

Rogue's gallery was one of the first stops on that new career.

From 1945 until 1946, Powell played the happy-go-lucky gumshoe Richard Rogue.

But outside of Powell's

charismatic performance, Rogue's gallery was pretty standard radio private eye

fair. Well there was one other unusual feature, usually once an episode, Rogue would get conked on the

head and take an unconscious journey to the clouds. While he was there, he'd converse with

U-Gour, a gleeful goblin who threw Rogue a clue to the solution of that week's

mystery, U-Gore being Rogue spelled backwards.

After a 1946 summer series came to an end, Powell departed from Rogue's Gallery.

A few years later, he'd be back on the air as another gumshoe named Richard, Richard Diamond.

But Fitzchampoo, the sponsor of Rogue's Gallery, kept the series going.

And when the show returned to NBC in the summer of 1947, there was a new rogue in the lead, big screen star Barry Sullivan.

Sullivan was a busy actor but he had a relatively small

radio presence.

Unlike many of the stars of the era, he never appeared his suspense and he only made a handful of appearances on the Lux Radio Theater.

Rogue's Gallery was his first lead role in a radio series.

He was very busy on the big and small screens and he worked steadily

in both through the late 1980s. At the time he was starring on Rogue's

Gallery, Sullivan had co-starred with Glenn Ford in Framed and he would headline the

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