The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho.

This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to get into this week's episode of The Adventures of the Falcon.

But first, I do want to encourage you if you're enjoying the podcast to follow us using your favorite podcast software.

You can support the show on a one-time basis at support.gratedetectives.net and become one of our

ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month by going to patreon.org

dot greatdetectives.net. And I wanted to take the opportunity to thank Brooke for upgrading

her membership from the Shawmas level of $4 or more per month

to the master detective level of $7.14 or more per month.

Thank you so much for your support.

We're going to go ahead and talk a little bit about the Falcons return to the air.

It happened in January of 1953, and it came back over the mutual network.

The star of the program was George Petrie.

Now, Mr. Petrie was one of those really solid New York radio acting mainstays, and we featured a couple of other

programs that he started. There was Call the Police, which we played back in season four, and I think

we also played the other one, which was John J. Malone. There are more episodes with Mr. Petrie in the lead than there are with any other of the actors who played Mr. Malone,

even though it's a situation where he starred in a seven-week summer replacement series,

and the others were in the role for a year and a half,

two years, but we have that entire seven-week summer replacement series, and we have three

episodes with him and call the police. But we probably most heard him most recently playing the

role of D.A. Markham in Philo Vance.

He also starred in a series where all the episodes are lost when Sam Spade went off the air.

Wild Root Cream Oil went ahead and they sponsored a detective series with a character completely

...