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
Barrie is hired to find $200,000 that was stolen by a corporate treasurer.
Original Air Date: April 6, 1954
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Barrie heads to a small town to track down a man who embezzled money from a local bank.
Original Air Date: March 30, 1954
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Barrie Craig goes to Vermont ski country to investigate a two year old attempted murder with four suspects and no proof as to who did it.
Original Air Date: February 2, 1954
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Barrie Craig is hired to go out of town and undercover to investigate a series of fires at a chemical plants.
Original Air Date: January 19, 1954
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Barrie finds a jewel thief dead in his office.
Original Air Date: November 3, 1953
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Barrie is hired by a doctor to discover who is amnesiatic patient is.
Original Air Date: October 13, 1953
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Barrie is hired to find out if a man is selling information from his business to a rival firm, but he begins to suspect that he’s been hired under false pretenses when everything begins to point to a domestic investigation and when the subject of his investigation is murdered.
Original Air Date: September 22, 1953
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Barrie Craig is assigned as a bodyguard at a party and finds himself investigating a murder.
Original Air Date: August 9, 1953
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Barrie is hired by a boxer to protect him from someone who is trying to kill him.
Original Air Date: July 19, 1953
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Craig is hired to go shopping with a wealthy man’s wife. When they stop at a store, she disappears in a dressing room and then turns up murdered.
Original Air Date: June 14, 1953
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Barrie is hired by a woman to walk her dog because she believes someone is trying to shoot the dog.
Original Air Date: May 3, 1953
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A woman’s long-lost husband reappears, but she claims not to be sure its him. Craig thinks the case is phony from the get-go.
Original Air Date: March 1, 1953
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Barrie witnesses a slip, fall, and die in front of an apartment building, but was it really an accident or murder?
Original Air Date: February 15, 1953
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A dying man asks Craig to find his murderer. When he’s dead, he leaves one clue behind-a crimson queen.
Original Air Date: January 4, 1953
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Barrie is hired to protect a man until his divorce can be finalized.
Original Air Date: October 15, 1952
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Barrie Craig is hired by a man to find out who is trying to kill his wife, an entrant in a combination beauty and pie-baking contest.
Original Air Date: October 8, 1952
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Barrie Craig is hired by a woman to protect from her estranged husband-a dangerous killer, but Craig senses something is wrong with the whole set up.
Original Air Date: July 8, 1952
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Barrie is hired to guard the heir to a $40 million fortune.
Originally Air Date: February 20, 1952
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A woman hops into Barrie’s car and they’re chased by another car all the way to New Jersey. Who is this woman and why is someone after her?
Original Air Date: February 13, 1952
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Barrie contacts with a small upstate town to find a murderer.
Original Air Date: February 6, 1952
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