Mr. Chameleon: The Case of Death and the Talking Parrot (EP4218)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 29, 1948
Originated in: New York CityStarred: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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| 1:05.5 | Dragnet, and all I needed to know I learned from Colombo. Each examines the careers and history |
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| 1:26.5 | Now it is time for this week's episode of Mr. Camelian. Now we did skip an episode from last week. |
| 1:35.5 | That was because that's a Christmasy episode. We're going to play that at Christmas. |
| 1:40.5 | So the original array on this one is December the 29th, 1948, and the title is Death and the Talking Parrot. |
| 1:50.5 | Next, Mr. Camelian and the Case of Death and the Talking Parrot. |
| 2:10.5 | Tonight we again present the famous Mr. Camelian of Central Headquarters in his most famous cases of crime and murder. |
| 2:32.5 | Brought to you by the makers of genuine Bayer aspirin. Now let me tell you just who Mr. Camelian is. |
| 2:40.5 | A college man he tried from childhood to live up to the name he bore, Camelian, by taking on the color of whatever situation in which he found himself, |
| 2:50.5 | appearing in endless guises, finally entering the police force where he became known as Camelian, the man of many faces, the underworld's most dreaded man. |
| 3:02.5 | The listener invariably knows who Mr. Camelian is, no matter which disguise he assumes, but the criminally striking down seldom does. |
| 3:11.5 | Tonight we give you Mr. Camelian in the Case of Death and the Talking Parrot. |
| 3:17.5 | Almost all of us can become deeply attached to a pet, and sometimes the pet can be very strange indeed. |
| 3:33.5 | For instance Laurel Madison, young and lovely, is devoted to her parrot, a raucous creature with a wicked eye. |
| 3:40.5 | And we find her now at night in the living room of her apartment, talking affectionately to the parrot as she takes him out of his cage. |
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