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Well today we're going to get into the Silent Men. The Silent Men was a 1951-52 series ran for 29

weeks and starred Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Now each week he played a different federal agent with

the premise that each week they would talk about the work and dramatize the sort of things that

many agents did in a variety of different government agencies that didn't receive some of the

fanfare of the better known federal investigators. It's a good concept for the series and I trust

you're going to enjoy the several months we have ahead with the Silent Men. Let's go ahead and get

started with the first episode premiere August 14th 1951 and the title is The Big Sneak.

By transcription it's the Silver Jubilee on NBC. Every night is mystery night here on NBC.

Tonight's mystery feature is the Silent Men. Tomorrow evening join Herbert Marshall as the man called

on Tuesday here the pulsing excitement of Big Town. Then on Wednesday there's the big story

authentic adventures of ace newspaper men and later Wednesday evening there's the new

very crane confidential investigator played by William Gargan. Yes for high adventure on a mystery

feature every evening Monday through Friday tune into this NBC station and now it's the Silent Men

on your NBC station. This is Douglas Fairbanks Jr. In a moment it will be my pleasure to introduce to

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