Music

Welcome to the great detectives of old-time radio. From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it to me. Box13 at greatdetectives.net.

Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives and check us out on Instagram.instagram.com slash great detectives.

I do want to encourage you to check out our other podcast in particular The War. The War is one of those projects that I'm most proud of.

As it really gives you a feel for World War II as told through radio, we start with the pre-war era and go all the way through to the end of the war.

And through comedy, through news programs, through drama, you get to see how the country was and how it changed through the course of the war.

If you're interested in World War II, I would encourage you to check it out. Go to the war.greatdetectives.net and you can find all of the other podcasts that I've done around Golden Age Entertainment and Old-time Radio at the Great Detectives of Old-time Radio.

A website at greatdetectives.net. Well, now it is time for this week's episode of Mr. Chameleon and we had quite a few episodes in between last week's program and this week's, this program originally aired on September the 21st.

1949 and the title is The Hanging Judge Murder Case.

Next, Mr. Chameleon and The Hanging Judge Murder Case.

Tonight we again present the famous Mr. Chameleon of Central Police Headquarters in his famous cases of crime and murder, brought to you by the makers of genuine Bayer aspirin.

Mr. Chameleon, as you know, is the famous and dreaded detective who frequently uses a disguise to track down a killer, a disguise which at all times is recognized by the audience.

Tonight we give you Mr. Chameleon in The Hanging Judge Murder Case.

The story opens as the famous Judge Hatch, known far and wide as The Hanging Judge, is seen striding rapidly and impatiently along one of the corridors of the Cyrus Blackstone Museum, in a quiet residential section of New York, and with the judge as his young and obviously puzzled daughter whom we hear saying,

Father, what's this all about? Why did you insist on coming here to the museum today?

You soon find out, Father.

But I want to know now, after all you've never come near this museum before, even though Cyrus Blackstone was your cousin, and suddenly you decide that you have to come here this afternoon.

Father, are you listening to me?

I've seen that man before.

Which man do you mean?

Yes, I've certainly seen him before.

Father, come in this room quickly.

...