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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Pursuit: Pursuit of the Man Who Couldn’t Go Home (Encore) (EP3816)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Inspector Black is called to a hotel room where a man is out on a ledge, saying he can’t deal with his guilt over a killing he’d committed.

Original Air Date: July 1, 1950

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:28.9

This is Adam Graham. This week we'll be playing some on-core performances as we take our summer break from recording.

0:37.9

We're spotlighting two programs from our archives.

0:40.9

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday listen for crime and Peter Chambers. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday enjoy pursuit.

0:49.9

If you're interested in either of these series you can locate the full archive over at www.biglist.greatdetectives.net

0:57.9

or in your favorite podcast store. Please enjoy and we will be back next week with fresh episodes.

1:27.9

Welcome to The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. From Boise, Idaho this is your host Adam Graham.

1:43.9

If you have a comment email it to me box13 at greatdetectives.net. Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives

1:52.9

and become one of our friends on Facebook. Facebook.com slash radio detectives. And check out our growing YouTube channel YouTube.Greatdetectives.net.

2:04.9

Before we get started, I want to encourage you if you've known already to pick up your copy of an ounce of prevention. It's my first ever detective story.

2:12.9

It's a novel that where a private detective takes on the simple task of protecting a fourth grade teacher but ends up facing the greatest moral dilemma of his career.

2:22.9

The book is available in the Kindle store. It's also available as an audiobook through audible.com or the iTunes store.

2:29.9

You can find all my books, audiobooks, and ebooks at store.greatdetectives.net.

2:35.9

Well now let's go ahead and we're going to take a listen to pursuit. Previously paid late the series. Back in I believe it was our fifth season.

2:46.9

There were two separate runs that we played. There was a run from the fall of 1949 to the spring of 1950,

2:56.9

during Ted DeCorsia as Inspector Peter Black of Scotland Yard. Then there was a summer run in 1951 that actually became an ongoing series of in the fall of 1951 and into 1952,

3:13.9

during Ben Runt. However there was another run in between these two and there weren't episodes in circulation back when we did pursuit but now we have the entire run.

3:26.9

It was a summer run seeing John Daener. Daener as I mentioned before played Paladin in the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel and he also starred in Frontier Gentlemen.

3:39.9

Beyond John Daener much of the behind the mic crew from the previous series is all here. Elliott Lois is producer director and Gildown and Anthony Ellis is the writer.

3:52.9

So we'll go ahead and we will take a listen now. The original air date on today's episode of pursuit is July 1st of 1950 and this is pursuit of the man who couldn't go home.

4:06.9

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4:13.9

Perseute, a criminal strikes and fades quickly back into the shadows of his own dark world.

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