The Falcon: Murder Knows No Borderline (EP4245)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 13, 1945
Originated from New YorkStarring: James Meighan as the Falcon
This episode includes discussion of the literary history of the Falcon and background on the second actor to play the Falcon, James Meighan
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| 1:17.0 | Well now we're going to get into our next series |
| 1:20.8 | the Falcon and to be honest, in laying out its origins, it may be one of the most confusing old time radio programs there is. |
| 1:32.0 | And I will try not to be confusing I talked a little bit |
| 1:36.3 | with my wife about it at the dinner table and she just kind of got lost in this so hopefully I'll do better this time. Now you might be thinking |
| 1:46.7 | that the Falcon radio series is connected to the Falcon movies that starred George Sanders and later his brother Tom Conway. |
| 1:57.6 | That's not right, but there's an understandable reason why people think that. |
| 2:02.8 | There were actually two different characters named the Falcon that were created in the light 30s and early 40s. |
| 2:11.4 | The first was a character named Michael Wingate who was created in |
| 2:16.9 | 1936 at Drexel Drake and was known as the Falcon. |
| 2:23.3 | And then there was Gay Stan Hope Falcon |
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