The Welcome back to down These Mean Streets, where our star this week may not be the first actor who springs to mind when you think of a detective.

He's Rex Harrison, famous as Professor Henry Higgins and Dr. Do Little, and he starred on

NBC as a private investigator in the private files of Rex Saunders. Though it had a very brief run on radio in 1951,

it's a chance to hear a unique voice in the crowd of radio gumshues.

Harrison was still years away from his Tony and Academy Award-winning roles in My Fair Lady when

he starred as Rex Saunders.

At the time the series aired, he was perhaps best known to American audiences for his roles in Anna and the King of Siam in 1946 and the Ghost in Mrs Muir in 1947.

He lent a refined sophisticated air to the role of Rex Saunders, a debonair detective in the vein of Simon Templar. His cases tend to involve the high society set with art thefts, phony seances, kidnappings, and murder.

Harrison was supported on the air by Leon Janny as Alec Saunders less bright but still capable assistant

and he was supported behind the scenes by director and producer Hyman Brown. Brown, a radio veteran, is perhaps most famous as the mind behind the

anthology horror series, Inner Sanctum Mysteries.

Like last week's Detective, Christopher London, Rex Saunders wasn't long for the airwaves.

Only 14 episodes aired between May and August 1951,

but fortunately almost every episode survives in good condition.

The role was tailor-made for Harrison's crisp delivery, and fans of sophisticated sloothing

will enjoy the chance to meet this detective.

So now let's listen to Rex Saunders in The Plan in the Killer's Mind,

originally aired on NBC on June 6, 1951.

Leon Janny and Barbara Weeks co-star.

The script was by Ed Adamson, and the show was directed by Hyman Brown. Rex Harrison stars in another intriguing adventure transcribed from the private files of Rex Saunders. Concerning fortune fortune telling. The lines in the palm of the victim's hand are never as accurate as the plan in the killer's mind. And now the private files of Brexonder. RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music and first in television,

brings you the celebrated star of stage and screen, Rex Harrison, in another exciting story taken from the private files of Rex Saunders,

radio's newest man of mystery. We hope you enjoy these weekly stories of intrigue

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