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This is your host, Adam Graham.

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Now this special is going to be one of our Twastol Tale episodes.

Now for those of you who haven't listened to these in the past,

what we do is we will play two episodes, both written by the same writer, but recycled from

one series to another. And this sort of recycling of scripts, we refer to it from time to time,

but it was a fairly common practice by many writers who took advantage of the fact that their

programs aired only once. So it wasn't that hard to wait a few months or a year or so and essentially take the same script,

make a few changes, and you have another program from the same basic story.

Today we are going to feature a story that was done on two very different series. First of all, there was the

Silent Men, a series starring Douglas Fairbank Jr., where each week he would play a different

protagonist who represented one of the obscure federal agencies,

whose bottle work often went unnoticed

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