Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets where today we're saluting a man

responsible for the adventures of some of our favorite radio detectives.

Most of the shows we listened to on this podcast were network broadcasts.

They aired on NBC, CBS, or ABC, and they were sponsored by companies,

Wild Root Cream Oil for Sam Spade, Rexall Drugs for Richard Diamond, or they were sustained by the networks without sponsorship.

The saint and Philip Marlow both had long runs supported just by their networks.

But other shows of the era were syndicated, with no home network or even a consistent nationwide

schedule.

They were produced, packaged, and sold to local

radio markets and advertisers who could drop their own spots into the shows.

And one man, more than any other turned that process of first-run syndication into an

enormously successful business.

Born August 17, 19, 1905, Frederick William Ziv was a radio and television producer and a pioneer

of syndicated programming.

By the late 1940s, Ziv's company was the largest packager and

syndicator of radio shows and his popular programs included Boston Blackie,

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