The Oh, The The Happy Holidays and welcome to down these mean streets,

where this week we're celebrating the season in our final regular episode of 2021.

And as we do every year, we're wrapping up with holiday adventures of old-time radio

detectives and crime fighters. Before we jump into the seasonal sloothing, I want to thank the folks who reached out to check on me.

I do a few episodes of my Stars on Suspense Podcast this past week without intro's due to a cold.

Fortunately, I seem to be over the worst of it now.

So again, thank you for checking in and for your kind words.

And a special thank you to everyone who is tuned into the show this year.

Whether you're a long time listener, if you just discovered the podcast, I truly appreciate

your support, your comments, and your love of old time radio.

Doing this podcast has connected me with so many old time radio fans from all around the world. It's really been the best part of

making the show for me. I wish you and your families the happiest of holiday

seasons that you can celebrate safely with the ones you love and the 2022 has great things in store.

And now on with the show and our four old-time radio holiday stories. Up first is the return of St. Nick from

this is your FBI. The only radio broadcast officially sanctioned by J Edgar Hoover himself.

Stacey Harris stars as Agent Jim Taylor in this episode that originally aired on

ABC on December 24th, 1948.

It's the case of a missing Santa Claus,

a man who plays Chris Kringle for the kids

at a settlement house who has disappeared shortly before Christmas.

Now I wasn't familiar with the concept of a settlement house.

For those of you in my boat, these grew out of a social reform movement that provided educational, recreational, and other social services to their communities, particularly the poor residents of cities and

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