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From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it to me, box 13 at greatdetectives.net. Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook.com slash Radio Detectives.

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Soon after Superman was created in 1938, he launched on radio and all sorts of conventions and concepts for Superman were introduced first on the radio.

You can enjoy these adventures by going to otrsuperman.com. I completed the entire series as I had available from 2008 to 2018.

We are in the home stretch of restoring all the episodes. We've got 900 plus episodes available for your listing pleasure at otrsuperman.com.

You can also check out all of our other podcasts over greatdetectives.net. Now let's get into today's episode of Jeff Regan.

I should note that most of the episodes after the first two are actually in circulation.

So the first missing episode that we don't actually have at all was from November 23rd of 1949.

But we have the one from the week after it and we're going to play it for you.

The original air date is November 30th of 1949 and the title is 500 Santas from Mexico.

My name's Regan. I work for Anthony J. Lion, International Detective Bureau. They call me the Lion's Eye.

Wednesday at 9 and CBS brings you Jeff Regan investigators starring Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lion.

So stand by for mystery and suspense and adventure in tonight's story of the 500 Santa Claus' from Mexico.

Like my boss, the lion said, it got you into the Christmas spirit early, all those Santa Claus's.

But what it got Jud Brown into was the morgue. Jud Brown was the six foot tall park time Santa Claus from Jensen's department store.

But got him into the morgue was one of those six inch tall Santa Claus's from Mexico.

Well, the thing teed off for me when I walked into the lion's office. He was looking at somebody's picture.

From the way he was learning, I could tell it wasn't gorgeous George.

Oh, hello, Jeffrey. You're just in time to meet our new client, Lonely Lovely.

Yeah. Here in this picture.

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