Barrie Craig| Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Hard Boiled Mystery Dramas
Barrie Craig was a different kind of detective show and Craig as played by William Gargan was a different type of detective: a big gentle easy going guy who always believed his clients until evidence proved otherwise. In some ways, it poked fun at the private detective genre by giving Craig police-type powers and duties such as making arrests and filling out paperwork. This played off the wide variety of functions and investigations that other PIs took on that were really police functions. Another time, Craig began his voice over narration by saying, “Manhattan’s my beat,” a clear reference to CBS’ Broadway’s My Beat. Other episodes took a serious turn such as Craig’s poignant caper with a mentally ill young woman.Gargan’s light and easygoing style make each episode of Barrie Craig is like a visit with an old friend talking about his detective adventures. Listeners were more than happy to visit for four years. Host Adam Graham brings you all surviving episodes of this classic series. Also in this feed are three episodes of Gargan's earlier detective series, I Deal in Crime from 1947. These episodes were presented from 2011-12 as part of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio podcast.
Episodes
Ross Dolan is hired to guard a New England matron as she travels across town. She needs protection as someone shoots in them and a dead body is found in the truck.
Original Air Story: September 27, 1946
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Ross Dolan is hired to bring back his client’s runaway 17-year old daughter, but someone doesn’t want her found.
Original Air Date: April 5, 1946
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Ross Dolan, just returned from service in World War II gets a job from a woman who wants to protect her from killing her husband.
Original Air Date: January 21, 1946
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Barrie is protecting a woman’s jewels at a tennis match and then witnesses a tennis player dying by poison.
Original Air Date: June 23, 1955
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A small college’s strong basketball team loses to two no-account schools feeding talk of the games being fixed.
Original Air Date: June 9, 1955
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A man visits Barrie at midnight under the cloak of darkness to ask if a murder is unsolvable.
Original Air Date: May 12, 1955
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Barrie arrests a boy for trying to mug him. When the boy confesses to an unsolved robbery and murder, Barrie seeks to clear him.
Original Air Date: May 5, 1955
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A mummy sent to Craig’s office sets him on the trail of a very modern murder.
Original Air Date: March 30, 1955
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Barrie Craig investigates a case of a Broadway producer overselling his show, but invariably finds himself investigating a murder.
Original Air Date: March 9, 1955
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Barrie is getting competing offers and a few beatings over a relic from Egypt.
Original Air Date: March 2, 1955
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Barrie is hired by a man who has become suspicious because catastrophe seems to follow him wherever he goes in scouting hotels in obscure locations around the world.
Original Air Date: February 16, 1955
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Barrie undertakes to help a woman who claims her husband disappeared from a hotel room where the clerk says neither of them registered.
Original Air Date: February 9, 1955
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Barrie is hired by a wealthy woman to be companion to her accident prone husband who keeps almost killing himself.
Original Air Date: January 4, 1955
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Barrie investigates when a woman at Willy’s wagon complains that someone stole her bull fiddle, and finds himself in the midst of the dangerous murder case.
Original Air Date: December 19, 1954
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While on vacation in Florida, Barrie investigates the disappearance of an old friend.
Original Air Date: November 21, 1954
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Barrie Craig tries to save the bitter boyfriend of a young woman, who asked for his help, from a life of crime
Original Air Date: November 7, 1954
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Barrie and a beautiful young woman are invited to the house of a wealthy man. They find the house is owned by someone else and rumors of ghosts abound.
Original Air Date: September 7, 1954
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Barrie Craig and his elevator man go to Vermont on a vacation. The peaceful rest is interrupted when they find a body in a hay wagon.
Original Air Date: August 31, 1954
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Barrie subcontracts to an aging private eye to find a missing rug merchant. Barrie finds the man dead and has to stop killer from killing the private eye.
Original Air Date: August 24, 1954
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At a resort, Barrie is hired by a wealthy young woman to investigate a young man who claims to be wealthy too. Barrie finds both are frauds, but that’s just the start of the case.
Original Air Date: August 17, 1954
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