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Frank Marvin Readick Jr. (November 6, 1896 — December 27, 1965) [1] was an American radio and film actor. [citation needed]Born in Seattle, Washington, Readick was well known for his evil laughter that followed the introduction from The Shadow radio drama: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Promotional photograph for The Detective Story Hour, with James La Curto as The Shadow (1930) Stories from the magazine were first heard on the radio on July 31, 1930. The Street and Smith radio program Detective Story Hour was narrated by a mysterious character named "The Shadow." [4] Confused listeners would ask for copies of "The Shadow ...
The Shadow is a fictional character created by American magazine publishers Street & Smith and writer Walter B. Gibson.Originally created to be a mysterious radio show narrator, [2] and developed into a distinct literary character in 1931 by Gibson, The Shadow has been adapted into other forms of media, including American comic books, comic strips, serials, video games, and at least five ...
In 1915, New York City publishers Street & Smith began publication of Detective Story Magazine, the first specialist genre pulp magazine. In 1930, CBS began The Detective Story Hour (actually a half-hour), a radio program that used scripts based on stories from the magazine. The scriptwriter, Harry Engman Charlot, suggested that the show should ...
The Mentalist. Patrick Jane, played by dreamy Simon Baker, is a former psychic medium who eventually becomes an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
A list of radio detective series and/or radio mystery solving series in general. Radio series about private investigators are listed here too. Subcategories.
The cliches, stereotypes and simplistic dialogue provided much fodder for Bob and Ray's parody, Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons, broadcast in numerous variations.It was also combined with rival detective show Martin Kane, Private Eye and satirized by Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis in Mad magazine's fifth issue (June–July 1953), as Kane Keen!
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio series featuring Raymond Chandler's private eye, Philip Marlowe.Robert C. Reinehr and Jon D. Swartz, in their book, The A to Z of Old Time Radio, noted that the program differed from most others in its genre: "It was a more hard-boiled program than many of the other private detective shows of the time, containing few quips or quaint characters."