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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

The Falcon: The Case of the Happy Hoodlum (EP4389)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery:Sergeant Corbett wants The Falcon to find out why a man made an insane attempt to rob an express company with a gun that couldn't fire.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 14, 1951

Originating from New YorkStarred: Les Damon as the Falcon; Ken Paxton as Sergeant Corbett

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The The Welcome to the great detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham.

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1:13.6

Well now it is time for this week's episode of The Falcon, the original

1:18.4

air date January 14th, 1951.

1:21.8

And this one is The Case of the Happy Hoodlam.

1:25.0

Hello?

1:27.0

Yes, this is the Falcon speaking.

1:34.0

Oh, comey, I'm glad you called.

1:38.0

You'll have to count me out tonight, Angel. I'm all jammed up.

1:41.0

Some boy I know is thinking of taking up murder for a career. He figures with

1:46.1

all the money involved, the least he can do is make a stab at it. This is N. Hurley, he friends, inviting you on behalf of the Craft Foods company to listen to the

1:59.3

Adventures of the Falcon, starring Les Damon. You met the Falcon first in his best-selling novels. Then you saw

2:05.8

him in his thrilling motion picture series. Now join him on the air when the Falcon

2:10.6

solves The Case of The Case the case of the happy hoodlum.

2:17.0

Friends before we join the Falcon for his latest adventure, I'd like to tell you how you can have

2:28.4

sandwiches and snacks and appetizers and salad toppings more easily and quickly than ever.

2:35.0

Just make them with any of the nine famous Kraft cheese spreads.

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