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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

T-Man: Show Business is No Business (EP3266)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Treasury Agent Steve Larsen investigates some counterfeiting and suspicion falls on a theatrical company that’s touring in a production of an awful play. Original Air Date: July 1, 1950 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Read more ...

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Well now it's time for today's episode of T-Man and this is the first aired episode of

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T-Man. The original aired 8 is July the 1st of 1950 and the title is show business is no business. T-Man starring the law enforcement agent of the Treasury Department, skilled fighter against crime,

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relentless enemy of the underworld.

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T-Man, Steve Larson, played by Dennis O'Keefe

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in tonight's transcribed Treasury case.

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Show business is no business.

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The way this thing began, you couldn't tell how big it was or how far it would spread.

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First there were a few very pretty

2:34.4

five-dollar bills picked up in Albany, New York. It was nice paper and the

2:38.8

engraving was almost perfect. When bills as good as that start floating around, the Treasury Department gets awfully

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jumping. So I jumped, from Washington to Albany.

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I spent most of the day in Albany trying to find somebody who remembered

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receiving one of the bills. Then about 5.30 in the evening I was talking to a

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bartender named Louis at the Hudson house.

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Like I'm telling you Mr Larson I just can't be sure.

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