The Chase: The Amusement Park (EP4700s)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

Adam Graham

Performing Arts, Drama, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: A woman operating a shooting gallery game at an amusement park suspects that the death of an elderly watchman for the carnival is tied to a firebug who has been operating in town.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 14, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Adelaide Klein as Cathy; Bill Lipton; Patrick Campbell; Sydney Smith; Walter Black

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0:00.0	The Welcome to the great detectives of old-time radio from Boise, Idaho.
0:35.1	This is your host, Adam Graham.
0:37.4	In a moment, we're going to bring you our
0:39.2	4,700th episode special. But first, I do want to encourage you if you're enjoying the podcast
0:46.6	to follow us using your favorite podcast software. Today's program is brought to you in part
0:53.7	by the financial support of our listeners.
0:56.2	You can become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at patreon.gratredetectives.net for as little as
1:03.6	$2 per month. The thought process behind today's special is actually pretty simple. I had listened to a few episodes of the Chase recently,
1:14.1	and I thought, you know, it has been a long time since we featured an episode of the Chase.
1:21.1	And I checked, and we played an episode of the Chase back in 2014, and that's all we've done. The Chase was a series
1:31.9	created by Lawrence Clee, who also had created the series The Clock, and honestly, some of
1:39.9	the episodes I've heard of the Chase were very similar to that series.
1:44.6	The way the series was presented to the public, it was NBC's attempt to have a competitor
1:53.8	to CBS's big anthology programs like Escape.
1:59.6	So some of these stories are adventure, some
2:02.7	are a bit more supernatural.
2:05.1	But there are also a few mysteries
2:06.9	and I'm so glad to share
2:08.6	one of those with you.
2:10.4	So here, from August
2:12.5	14th, 1952
2:14.6	is the episode
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