Martin Kane: October 29, 1953 (EP4576)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Original Air Date: October 29, 1953
Originating in New YorkStarring: Mark Stevens at Martin Kane; King Calder as Lieutenant Gray
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm Boise, Idaho. |
| 0:34.6 | This is your host, Adam Graham. |
| 0:37.4 | In a moment, we're going to introduce you to Martin |
| 0:40.1 | Kane Private Detective. First, I do want to encourage you to check out our other podcasts, |
| 0:45.7 | particularly as we're getting into the Christmas season, I want to highlight the amazing world of |
| 0:51.1 | radio, where starting tomorrow, we will be bringing you Christmas specials on |
| 0:56.9 | that podcast every other day through Christmas Eve. We have four great specials for you. |
| 1:03.8 | Also on the old-time radio snack wagon, we have a special Christmas treat that you can hear on |
| 1:09.2 | Monday at snackwagon.net. |
| 1:11.7 | And of course our Christmas programming for Great Detectives of Old Time Radio starts tomorrow. |
| 1:18.4 | Now on to Martin Kane Private Detective. |
| 1:22.4 | Martin Kane is a forgotten multimedia franchise that really had a huge present in 1949 into the early 1950s. |
| 1:32.6 | The series premiered over mutual radio and on television over NBC, the NBC TV version was one of the first |
| 1:42.3 | popular TV detective franchise, with each episode broadcast live. |
| 1:48.1 | William Gargan started in the rule to start with, but would be succeeded by Lloyd Nolan, |
| 1:53.3 | Lee Tracy, and finally Mark Stevens, who will hear today. While the series was popular, due to it being broadcast live, most of the |
| 2:03.9 | episodes from this run were lost, although a few surviving recordings have surfaced and have been |
| 2:12.1 | released by various public domain DVD companies and are available online. However, Martin Cain was so popular |
| 2:21.0 | that there was a syndicated TV version starring Gargan and filmed in Europe that was |
| 2:27.7 | released in 1957 to cash in on the character's popularity. In addition to radio and television, there was also |
| 2:37.5 | a two-issue comic book, released in 1950 by Fox Features. Now, there are said to be 29 radio episodes |
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