Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
going to bring you this week's episode of The Saint.
But first I do want to encourage you. If you're
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when I announced we were going to play The Saint
again that many were delighted with the idea of hearing
more of Vincent Price, and indeed we will. But The
Saint did not begin with Vincent Price in the title role.
The first Saint radio series was actually broadcast over Radio
Athlone in Ireland in nineteen forty and then there would
be two separate Saint radio series, one that aired from
January through March and starred Edgar Barrier, and then a
second one that aired during the summer and starred Brian Hearn.
None of those episodes are in existence. What we do
have in existence is the audition for the Saint radio series.
Now there is some conflict as to the date, with
some placing the audition in nineteen forty four and some
placing it in nineteen forty. I leaned towards nineteen forty
four because it aligns a bit more with the overall chronology,
although it's certainly possible I suppose that an audition was
recorded in nineteen forty and they just put it aside
for a few years. In this particular episode, you're going
to hear Dennis Green as the Saint.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Dennis Green was a British born actor who over radio
did a lot of British character roles. He was in
quite a few episodes of the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
He also appeared in some British located Lux Radio Theater episodes.
As far as I can tell, this is the only
radio production he ever stored in. So let's go ahead
and take a lesson to this program, likely from nineteen
forty four. Here is The Saint and the Miracle tea party.
Speaker 3: Listen for the Saint. The Saint, the hero of one
hundred thrilling yards of breathless adventure and mystery. The Robinhood
of modern crime the twentieth century is gayest buccaneer, already
immortalized in twenty five best selling books, half a dozen
popular motion pictures, and countless magazine stories. The Saint by
Leslie charteris brought to you now in a new medium,
the radio, and the author, mister Leslie Charters himself will
appear on this program personally introducing his famous character.
Speaker 4: Have you read the latest?
Speaker 3: Saint is revolutionized the sat peak of adventure writing. Saint
is one friends at every corner of the globe. The
Saint who made such men as P. G.
Speaker 4: Wodehouse. Right to the.
Speaker 5: Author, I hope you're going to write dozens more Saints stories.
Speaker 4: They're simply caking.
Speaker 3: Stories of thrilling adventure that made naturalist William Beebe say,
if I.
Speaker 6: Were marooned at the bottom of the sea in my bethisphere,
I choose the Saint stories for company.
Speaker 3: And humorist Will Cuppy christened the Saint the Prince of Adventurers.
The Saint's exploits have been translated into every European language.
Critics have placed him in the tradition of Sherlock, Holmes
and Raffles, But actually he's like neither. He is unique,
and so I bring you the only man who can
do him justice, the author who first brought him to life. Oh,
mister charteris. But wait before or Leslie Charter speaks, let
me tell you that he isn't the Gray West good
author you may have pictured. In spite of all the
exciting things he's done, He's still only thirty three, and
yet he knows what he's writing about. For fourteen years,
he's been traveling and adventuring all over the world, and
more than half the Saint's exploits are founded on things
he has seen himself. But meet mister Leslie Charters for yourself,
good evening, Mitter charteris.
Speaker 4: Tell us how you see the Saint's character? Well, that
is rather a tall order.
Speaker 7: Let's say that he has a sense of humor. He
never takes anything too seriously, not even himself. Of course,
he has his own idealistic motives for pertinently on goodly
in the snoot. But he really thinks it's quite a
lot of fun too.
Speaker 4: And you let the public share the fun with him.
I hope they do.
Speaker 7: After all, the world is full of villains who are
to be jumped on, and I suppose most people would
really like to take a share in the jumping, but
since most of them aren't quite so quick on the
doors they'd like to be, they don't mind letting the
Saint do it for them.
Speaker 3: I know just what you mean. I've often felt that
way myself. So which of these adventures are you bringing
us tonight?
Speaker 4: The Miracle Tea Party? The Miracle Tea Party?
Speaker 7: Yes it sounds screwy, doesn't it, but it explains itself
as we go along.
Speaker 4: Well, who else is in it? Beside the Saint? There's
Patricia Home, of course, she's the Saint's beautiful companion in crime.
Speaker 7: You could put it that way, but anyway, she's been
in most of the Saint's adventures.
Speaker 2: Then there's fun Ach.
Speaker 3: Oh you mean Inspector John Henry for an act of
the Detective Bureau. Yes, he's quite an old favorite in
the Saints series, isn't he. The Saints certainly has given
him a lot of gray hairs, though.
Speaker 7: They have had a few battles, but they really think
quite a lot of each other.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 7: On this occasion, Phonac's indigestion was what really started the
whole thing.
Speaker 4: Is indigestion? Yes, or he was in all kinds of trouble.
Speaker 7: The New York Police Commissioner was running him rag about
some espionage business, and of course the paints and his
tummy weren't helping him up. Pet I suppose the story
really began when the Commissioner was sitting in his office
waiting for Inspector John Henry Fernach to.
Speaker 4: Come up on the carpet.
Speaker 2: Yes, Inspector Fernach is outside, Commissioner.
Speaker 4: Him in.
Speaker 2: You sent for me, Commissioner.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm still waiting for your report on that espionage
business out at the airplane factory.
Speaker 2: And my men are doing their best, and you better
get some men can do better.
Speaker 6: And I promised the FBI months ago we cracked this case.
What you're laying down on the job for Nick and
when action I wanted fast, yes, sir. And another thing,
why haven't you rounded up this man, Simon Templar Fellow
they called the Saint.
Speaker 2: You can't arrest a man without evidence, Commissioner, and get some.
Speaker 6: Everybody knows the man's a crook, one of the most
notorious crooks in the country.
Speaker 2: We've never been able to prove it. Commissioner.
Speaker 6: In a minute, you'll be telling me you've fallen for
this stuff about him being the modern Robin Hood.
Speaker 2: The things he does generally seem to turn out all right.
He's even helped me a lot of time.
Speaker 6: Oh, fernack, you must be getting soft in the head.
What's the matter with you? Are you sick or something?
Speaker 2: When as a matter of affects her?
Speaker 8: I am, I'm suffering from indigestion.
Speaker 6: Indigestion. Why don't you get something for it? Why don't
you get some miracle tea?
Speaker 2: Is that the stuff they advertise in the radio?
Speaker 6: Yes, why don't you buy some?
Speaker 2: I win, sir, I'd just stop in at the drug
store on my way home. Yes, sir, good eating. What
can I do for you? And give me some.
Speaker 4: Give me a package of miracle tea.
Speaker 2: One package of miracle tea, yes, sir. Hey you are, sir,
And isn't this something else?
Speaker 8: What do you mean something else? What are you looking
at me like that for? Come on, give me that
stuff and take your money.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, wait, hey, mister, come back here. I made
a mistake.
Speaker 4: Oh he's gone.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, mister Osmond, mister Osbud quick.
Speaker 5: What's the trouble out there?
Speaker 2: What terrible mistakes? A customer came in and I made
a terrible mistake.
Speaker 9: Oh well, goes on down the street. Hey, hey, you stop?
Speaker 4: Oh well, well, well, if it isn't my old friend
John Henry Thannak.
Speaker 2: The saint, what did you do that for?
Speaker 4: I'm ashamed of you, Henry, rolling in the gutter at
your age.
Speaker 2: Well you hit me. I'm walking down the street a
lot and you.
Speaker 4: Hit me, So don't be an ass, Henry. I was
just passing by when I saw a bloke in the
distance waking you over the beam with a piece of
lead pipe. I ran after it and he got away. Yes,
I thought of asking him to come and have a
drink on it, but he ran too fast. Was he
a friend of yours?
Speaker 2: I don't know what it's all about.
Speaker 8: I just came out of that drug store back there,
and I heard footsteps behind me, and I, oh, lord
my head.
Speaker 4: You better go home, Henry, and rest that dented dome. Taxi,
Oh taxi, Oh, be careful of him driver. He's very fragile. Sorry,
I can't go with you, Henry, but I'm late already.
I've got a date with someone much more beautiful than you.
Speaker 8: I suppose I ought to thank you, but I'm still
not sure that you didn't suck me. Simon Templer fourteen
forty four, Prospect Place.
Speaker 4: So long, Henry, call me anytime you want a bodyguard.
Speaker 9: Hey, wait, Henry, you dropped your package.
Speaker 4: Oh well, I'll just have to keep this little package
with me until the morning.
Speaker 10: Hello, Simon, you're late.
Speaker 4: I ran into a little excitement on the way, Darling.
Speaker 10: What's in the box you're carrying?
Speaker 11: Orchids?
Speaker 4: Pat give me back that box. It's not mine.
Speaker 10: Tea a package of tea, miracle tea for indigestion. Indigestion,
ha ha, so your sins are catching.
Speaker 4: Up with you yet. Now don't open it. It belongs
to where.
Speaker 11: Did you get all this money?
Speaker 4: What money?
Speaker 10: The money that's in this package of tea. It's full
of thousand dollar bills.
Speaker 4: A look one, two, three, four, five, five thousand dollars.
Miracle tea. What an excellent name for.
Speaker 10: It, Simon, where do you get this tea?
Speaker 4: Believe it or not? Inspector Fernack dropped it and I
picked it up.
Speaker 10: Inspector Fernie.
Speaker 4: A few moments ago I found him being beaten up
by some plug Ugly I rescued the poor old buzzard
and poured him into a taxi. Then I found this
package lying on the sidewalk.
Speaker 10: This money, Simon, Do you think it's real?
Speaker 4: No doubt of it.
Speaker 10: Maybe you've bred poor old Fernack's life.
Speaker 4: Savings when he has a bank account, Darling. Police inspectors
don't carry the worldly wealth around in packets of.
Speaker 10: Tea graft Simon.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's taking grad John Henry. No, he's so honest
it runs out of his ears. Well, let's see. John
Henry had a pain in his tumb tumb and stopped
into Osbitt's drug store on the way home. My hunch
is that he was handed this packet by mistake. My
further hunch is that right now there must be considerable
agitation going on in mister Osbert's drug store.
Speaker 2: Mister, please, sir, how was I don't know it was
a man?
Speaker 4: I'm over here, you fool.
Speaker 12: But how was I to know it was Inspector Ferneck
at the police department.
Speaker 2: He came in so quietly, he lowered his voice, just
like one of our own men.
Speaker 5: I said, come here.
Speaker 2: I ran after him. I almost had the package back,
so when this other fellow came along and intent fool, Please, mister.
Speaker 12: Rosbity, It was a mistake. This other fellow was twice
my size, and it killed me.
Speaker 5: That my friend might have saved me the trouble.
Speaker 2: Come here, no, no, please.
Speaker 11: No, darling, I wish you'd explain.
Speaker 10: Where are we going.
Speaker 4: Osbit's drug store in search of further miracles?
Speaker 11: There's the drug store right over there.
Speaker 4: Come in with me, darling. What fun.
Speaker 2: A good eating? Sir? What can I do for you?
Speaker 4: Is mister Osbit around? Uh?
Speaker 2: What's it about?
Speaker 4: What's about this package of tea? I'd I'd like to
return it. A friend of mine bought it, but decided
he wouldn't risk taking it, So I said, Fernac, O
power my waist, a perfectly good half dollar. I'll take
it back and change it for you.
Speaker 2: Did you say your friend's name was Fernack?
Speaker 4: Yes, you probably know him, great detective and all that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure we can change this package for you.
Speaker 12: Say if now, If you wait right here, sir, I'll
get mister rosb Simon.
Speaker 10: His eyes popped out of his head when you mentioned.
Speaker 4: It worked, my sweet Do you notice how he grabbed
the package and scuttle up those backstairs.
Speaker 11: Osbert must be back there you stay here.
Speaker 4: Darling in the store. Well, I see what goes on.
Speaker 5: Oh, mister Robin, what are you bursting in for? Your
job is down behind the store.
Speaker 2: It's Furnack's packager. A man just brought it in the
store's to exchange.
Speaker 5: My next package.
Speaker 6: Give it to me.
Speaker 2: Ah, you're crazy.
Speaker 5: There's no money in here, but he said, well the polace.
Speaker 2: Listen. Who's there?
Speaker 4: Hello? Little people? Whope, I'm not interrupting. Oh, don't bother
searching that box, mister Osbit. I removed the Dora May
and sealed it up again. Who are you?
Speaker 2: I know who he is. I've heard about that whissom
the Saint.
Speaker 5: That's who he is, the Saint.
Speaker 4: So you see, I want to learn about your business,
comrade Osbit. I don't know what your racket is yet.
Obviously it's something big. If you can give away five
grand with a four bit packet of tea.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, you do. Take your hand away from that pocket, Hosbit,
miss me, Oh boy, very bad manners. But if you
want to play rough.
Speaker 2: Next, please let me alone. I didn't do either.
Speaker 10: Simon, Simon, are you all right?
Speaker 4: All right? I'm having a beautiful time hospital pull the
gun so I had to put them both to sleep.
Come on downing, let's go downstairs again and look after.
Speaker 2: The shop.
Speaker 13: That may have ten cents worth of cough drops, please
and hurry it up.
Speaker 4: Ten cents worth, yes, sir, here you are here here,
not all that, only ten cents worth, I say, special
bargain price today, sir, three pounds for a dime.
Speaker 2: I like some razor blades.
Speaker 4: Now, why don't you try this excellent electric raiser, But
I don't want an electric razer exactly the same price
as the blades. We are selling electric raisers for a
dime today, So here you are, and I.
Speaker 2: Don't want an electric razer. I'll have a dollar bottle of.
Speaker 4: Perry perfume here you are, miss it's reduced to a
quarter today, and please accept these bath salts.
Speaker 11: Really, it's very kind of you don't mention it.
Speaker 4: It's mister Osbert's birthday today and he's in the mood.
Speaker 10: Simon, you're giving the whole store away. It may be
loads of fun, darling, but where is it getting it?
Speaker 4: Verify yet? But I've really been hanging around here in
the hopes at some minute no.
Speaker 2: Another customer.
Speaker 10: What a specimen?
Speaker 4: I wonder how much he had charged to haunt her
house out of the way, darling, Yes, sir, what will
it be? Raizor blades, shaving cream, hot water bottle?
Speaker 2: I haven't seen you before.
Speaker 4: Then you should admire the view.
Speaker 2: Where's that?
Speaker 4: USSI?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh, dear old oss is lying down for a while.
Got a headache or something. See have you tried our
passion flower lipstick?
Speaker 2: Cut that carmedy?
Speaker 14: Yeah, give bar to this prescription and find that when
my my medicine will be ready.
Speaker 4: Come back at six o'clock this evening. I think you're
your medicine all they're ready for you. Then shakes o' clock. Okay,
give you this piece of paper. He call it a prescription.
Speaker 10: After all, this is a drug store.
Speaker 4: Look at it, Patty. See a doctor writ out of
prescription like that. It's a drawing floor plan of a building.
Speaker 10: Now I suppose we have to go back to Burglary.
Speaker 4: No, my pet, I think we run into something bigger
than Burglars.
Speaker 11: What, Simon, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think I'll go upstairs again and investigate how sleeping
beauty is. Come on, Patricia, roll.
Speaker 2: Over, USSI Let's see what you've got in your pockets.
Speaker 4: Ah, here's a wallet.
Speaker 10: What's inside? Simon?
Speaker 4: Oh, very interesting. Mister Osbitt has a driving license and
a credit card, both made out in the name of
Baron and NESQ five seventy seven Park Avenue. I wonder
if Ossi has been leading a double life. Anything interesting
in the desk?
Speaker 10: We look like a lot of radio commercials about miracle tea.
Speaker 4: It's him. Well, this doesn't look very sinister. Let's take
him along anyway.
Speaker 15: Your babies are waking up, Simon, had enough exercise for today.
Speaker 4: Come on, darling, let's go. I think we've earned a drink.
Speaker 15: Make mine a miracle tea in the soda, Simon, we've
had dinner. Why aren't we doing something about Baron and
ESCU instead of sitting at home listening to the radio.
Speaker 4: Well, aren't you satisfied, darling? We are hot on the trailer.
One of the most ingenious rackets I've ever heard of.
Money flows like water, plans are handed over a drugstore counter,
and packets of tea gets spiked with a thousand dollar bills.
Speaker 10: What you really mean is that this thing is still
got to buffalo.
Speaker 4: On the contrary, My deductive genius is just getting into
high gear. You know, I'm convinced that there's some connection
between these Miracle Tea broadcasts and the racket we're onto.
That's why I've been studying all these radio commercials you
found in Osbert's office, just been waiting for the program
to come on the air. And I think it's due
right now.
Speaker 13: Good evening, everybody. Huh, why not try Miracle Tea, the
amazing health beverage which has brought relief to so many sufferers.
Let me read you a few testimonials. Missus GK of
Brooklyn rights for years.
Speaker 15: I don't see what this radio program has to do
with OSBA's drugstore and the money and the plans.
Speaker 4: Don't you listen?
Speaker 2: And mister J. B.
Speaker 13: Philadelphia writes, Miracle Ta has indeed performed miracles for me.
Miss LG.
Speaker 4: Of Trenton writes, Pat, I was right. I got it.
The code signal. It's one of the neatest I ever
came across.
Speaker 10: Code signal.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's so gorgeously simple. I almost missed it. The
one thing I couldn't figure out was how the agents
of this ring and you went to visit Ospits drug store. Well,
this is how it's done. The initials of the operative
of the big Boss wants to get in touch with her,
given over the radio. Through the testimony, exactly, no detective
on earth could trace the connection between a radio broadcast
and the particular person who listens to it.
Speaker 2: Years.
Speaker 10: After all, anybody can go into a drug store and
buy a patent medicine without attracting attention.
Speaker 4: Yes, and then the package contains the wages of work
well done, the one Fernach got hold of, or instructions
for another job.
Speaker 10: Darling, You're wonderful, don't you ever amaze yourself constantly?
Speaker 4: Give me the phone. I'm going to organize a little
tea party of my own.
Speaker 2: Inspector Fernack speaking Hello.
Speaker 4: John, Henry, And how is the little tom tum this evening?
Speaker 2: Simon?
Speaker 8: Haven't you anything better than do than they call me
up at this time a night and make funny remarks?
Speaker 4: Seriously, Henry, if you're really interested in cleaning up this
espionage business, just rush one of your squads to Osbit's
drug store, a place where you bought your miracle tea.
Speaker 2: Hey, are you kidding me so?
Speaker 4: Once? I'm not, Henry, unless I'm very much mistaken. A
few other guys are going to be their shopping for
Miracle Tea tonight. You'd better pick up everybody who buys
it and hold him for questioning. If I thought that
you never have. Don't spoil your record, Henry. Just do
as I say and I'll get in touch with you later.
I may have the big shot for you then.
Speaker 11: But who is the big shot of this ring?
Speaker 4: And I'm not certain, but I'll bet though that Baron
and Esco could tell us something. I think. Just run
over and ask him what was the address? Five seventy
seven Park Avenue.
Speaker 10: If you're not back in an hour, I'll meet you
there with an ambulance.
Speaker 2: I'm very sorry, so, but the Baron is not at home?
Speaker 4: No, no, who's playing that type adder down the hall?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, so but the baron is not at home?
Speaker 4: Or you repeat yourself, Clarence, Oh sorry, I had to
cut you, but you really were getting monotonous. Now to
find the dear Baron.
Speaker 5: Hello station deal PK give me mister Vernon, the announcer
of the Military Tea program. Please, Hello Vernon, you're at
the testimonials for the ten o'clock broadcast.
Speaker 4: Are you ready?
Speaker 5: Missus b C of Los Angeles. Since drinking your tea,
I have become hold on.
Speaker 4: Hold on a moment, Vernon, Good evening, Baron. Put your
hand over that mouthpiece.
Speaker 2: What are you doing here?
Speaker 4: Don't move to feel this gun in your back. Baron
talks faster than you can. I'll get back on that
phone and repeat exactly what I tell you.
Speaker 5: Hello, Hello, Vernon, tell him.
Speaker 4: Tell him you're changing the copy completely.
Speaker 5: Vernon, I'm I'm changing the copy completely.
Speaker 4: Tell him to make it read like this. There are
many testimonials in our files and they all praise Miracle Tea.
Speaker 5: Hello, make the ten o'clock commercial read. There are many
testimonials in our files.
Speaker 4: And they all praise medical t Stop reaching for that desk,
draw Baron, It makes me nervous. Now say all of
the everybody, why not buy Miracle tea tonight?
Speaker 5: Go and say it, eh, all of you everybody, why
not buy Miracle tea tonight?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 4: Tell him that's all. H that's all Vernon, All right,
now you can turn around.
Speaker 5: What is the meaning of this?
Speaker 4: I should say about fifteen years for you, Baron? Or
would you prefer me to call you osbit osbitten? I
recognized your voice the instant I heard it, in spite
of your false whiskers. Besides, I took the liberty of
looking through your wallet while you were taking a siestra
in the shop. Very smart, aunt you, mister Templar, I
get along. You've been running one of the most efficient
espionage rackets in the country, haven't you. Are you crazy
crazy enough to recognize plans of an airplane factory disguised
as a prescription? Well, what are you going to do
about Well, I'm going to leave that to Inspector Furnac
his maneral ready at your drug store. They've probably picked
up Miss GK, Mister l G, and missus b C already,
And in a few minutes, when your ten o'clock program
goes on the air, there'll be a whole flock of
the speptics rolling in to join the tea party.
Speaker 5: I have an uncanny memory for people who interfere with me,
Simon Templer, Well, why do.
Speaker 4: You're thinking it over in Alcatraz? Don't forget to tell
the other boys to look out for me. Tell them
about the Saint.
Speaker 3: Well that certainly had me on the edge of my chair,
mister Charters, but it seems that Simon did all the
work and Inspector Furnak got all the credit.
Speaker 7: You know, in a business like the Saints, you can't
advertise too much. Besides, he doesn't own a private jail.
Speaker 4: No, of course. Well, now, what are you going to
tell us about next week? Well, there was a man
who was snatching loot out of sunken ships. Sounds interesting.
I call that story Saint. Overboard, there was a guy
named Vogel.
Speaker 7: Who was pretending to finance a certain Professor Yule, the
inventor of an extra deep sea diving suit. Remember that
exciting moment when Simon was.
Speaker 4: On Vogel's yacht and Professor Yule was going down to
make a sense.
Speaker 13: Five hundred and seventy five feet splendid professor, can you
hear me down there?
Speaker 12: Yes, mister Vogel, I'm on the bottom. Everything is working splendidly.
Give me another twenty feet of cable. I'm going to
try to walk a bit. Something's gone wrong with the
oxygen supply, Twick, bring me up.
Speaker 4: The winch is jammed. Hello, Hello down there, gofess.
Speaker 2: So what can we do?
Speaker 11: Saint?
Speaker 4: Get away from that winch? Folk or this gun might
go off now watch me start it. Look not behind you.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid we'll have to wait until next week to
hear this new story, entitled Saint Overboard, another thrilling adventure
in This program by Leslie charteris a program in which
the author himself, each week sets the scene for a
new story of the Saint. The part of the Saint
is played by the noted English actor of stage, screen
and radio, Dennis Green. And so until next week, listen
What a Saint.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back? An amusing piece. Overall, I think that it's
a fun episode. It maybe a little too comedic of
This episode features Patricia Holme, who if you listen to
the Vincent Price series or if you watch the television
program with Roger Moore, you won't find her in there,
but she was Simon Templar's love interest and confidant through
the early years of the character. She began to fade
away from the series during the forties, with her last
featuring in a short story in nineteen forty eight. She
is not included in any of the Vincent Price episodes
or Tom Conway, who would succeed Price, but we do
get to hear her here and Press clippings from the
time show that the character was featured at least in
the summer nineteen forty five series with Louise Arthur in
that role. Now we don't have any full Saint episodes, however,
thanks to the Mystery Playhouse and their of explaining what
they're going to play next for American servicemen on that program.
We do have a clip from the Edgar Barrier run
on the Saint, and we'll turn it over to Peter
Laurie to introduce that segment.
Speaker 17: Now for our next production, it's doing much less exciting. Oh,
only seventeen shots, a lot of crooked outsmarting together for
the paltry two hundred thousand dollars. Two murderers and Sermon
Temper better known as the Saint. Allow me to the
green room for the preview. All right, this move content, you.
Speaker 2: Know, horror.
Speaker 4: You really should have told me sooner.
Speaker 5: So do what A police headquarters have been moved to
a long island.
Speaker 4: Mentioned like this.
Speaker 5: It's quite a shock to a hardway in text player
like me.
Speaker 4: You better start getting his shots.
Speaker 18: Oh, mister Nelson looks like he's expecting.
Speaker 19: Me, So I wish you wouldn't see popping over that rock, though, Hollis,
if he is tickled this way, sir, I cozy little dumb,
isn't it, Hollis? My name is not Horace, he judge striker,
mister Nason. In fact, sir, here you might as well
out the door, Evan, I shut down with the temper.
Speaker 2: So you're the painous gentleman known as the paint are you?
Speaker 18: Sometimes My friends called that, mister Temple. We have taste
here with a serious matter, a very serious matter.
Speaker 5: So it seemed so serious, in fact, that I have
been obliged to.
Speaker 2: Adopt rather extraordinary measures, you.
Speaker 18: Like sending around the phony pick to pick me up for.
Speaker 2: You knew he was a phony, My dear that had
a twin.
Speaker 14: He didn't really think that others over there could successfully
impersonate an officer.
Speaker 2: Of the law, did you?
Speaker 10: Why?
Speaker 4: I shall we get down the business very well?
Speaker 20: You have in your profession a certain diary containing statements
and the suggestions which I hardly.
Speaker 18: Need say are for the unproved.
Speaker 14: That is the statement that, when you held a fine
job in Washington, dreamed up the high tour oil swindle
and got away with it.
Speaker 4: No fabrication from the beginning to end, and that you
and your.
Speaker 14: Associates now control about ninety percent of the black market gasoline.
Speaker 4: In the country.
Speaker 2: Lives life, every one.
Speaker 20: Of them at that's why thank you for having the
fact remains that their publication might seriously damage the character
and the financial spending of certain resputable members of the.
Speaker 4: Community, especially including you.
Speaker 20: I it is for that reason, and that reason alone,
that I am prepared to ascertain what value you placed
on this vodum.
Speaker 18: What's the offer?
Speaker 2: Shall we say?
Speaker 4: Tenth how dollars?
Speaker 20: May I ask you what you find so funny about
ten thousand dollars or nothing?
Speaker 4: Nothing on the ordinary Cycum center.
Speaker 18: If you must admit that in this state it is
a little ridiculous and there, what would you suggest? Two
hundred thousand dollars? That splay that? Did you say you
heard me appen? Two hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 5: You're insane, though I'm not.
Speaker 14: I'll tell you what I'm going to do, Jack, I'm
going to set up a foundation. If I'm on Templar
Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Wounded war set or you
will have a capital of one million dollars. Your share
will be exactly one fifth.
Speaker 18: Do I make myself here.
Speaker 5: Why haven't you changed your tune before you ever get
out of this house.
Speaker 4: Don't try to get your gun, Hollist.
Speaker 18: I always carry a fair and I'm an excellent stock essionally,
if you remember that, I've always had something at that tea.
Now take your gun out very slowly by the muzzle problem.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: So you thought me right, and now you'll be good
enough to unlock the door. Open it. You'll hear from
me again, like said another.
Speaker 18: In fact, I should expect to have your check by
Saturday morning. Nice jud welcome back.
Speaker 1: This particular episode I recognize because I've read the plot
and I've seen some TV episodes. This was the Simon
Templar Foundation, which was the very first episode of the
Edgar Barrier Saint series that aired on January sixth, nineteen
forty five. And I think if you needed a reason
for why the pilot failed, I think it may come
down to the oldest show biz EA's explanation, which is
that they he decided to go another direction. Edgar Barrier,
even from this brief clip, played the Saint a lot harder,
and I think that may have been what American radio
executives thought audiences were looking for, and of course Barrier
was more of a major, established radio talent, so that
probably helped them decide to go with Barrier. In addition,
some people have described Charters as sounding a bit uncomfortable
during the interview segment, and I won't say he was
particularly polished, and I can't imagine he was too disappointed.
They decided to do a version of the show where
he isn't happening to be on radio every week, although
according to one news article, Charteris wrote all the scripts
for the summer NINETEAM forty five radio programs, which, as
I said, are lost.
Speaker 6: Well, now we.
Speaker 1: Turn to listener comments and feedback with a comment regarding
danger with Granger, and this one comes from Spotify Mechanic
sixty six rights. I was immediately suspicious of Paula when
she didn't show the slightest bit of emotion about her
dead cat. Most people would be distraught. Well, I appreciate
the comment, and I think that it's a fair point.
In real life, I think that would definitely be a
reason to be suspicious. Although I've seen several mystery movies
and heard a few mystery radio programs where the death
of the cat is just treated as a plot point,
even if the owner is in no way complicit in
the crime, because in the grand scheme of things, it's
considered not a big deal as there's an actual murderer
and people's life at risk, even perhaps the owner of
the cat. But I also think what is often called
pet culture has really changed in the last few decades,
and entertainment marks that in the way that there are
certain ideas, in certain ways that pets are treated, not
crueltly and not assumed to be cruel that often get
our hackles up. And this is reflective of a cultural
shift where I think pets have become more valued and
have a higher status in society. And I think our
relationship to pets can also be colored by our disconnection
from each other, and so many human ties that were
so key in ages past have been so fraid that
we appreciate animals even more for being trustworthy, loving creatures
in a world where sometimes it seems like our fellow
human beings are apathetic at best and hostile at worse.
I didn't mean to go quite that philosophical, but I did,
and not deleting it. Okay, well, let's go ahead and
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Speaker 16: That's right, mister housman, my name's Jamie Goodwin. But what's
the difference. Ain't nobody gonna believe me? Ain't nobody care?
Speaker 4: But what proof do you have proof?
Speaker 2: What's that proof? I say?
Speaker 11: Who I am?
Speaker 16: I got papers from the Merchant Marine jury say that's
off a tenny forty years hard labor.
Speaker 2: That's your proof?
Speaker 5: And you're not off at tenny. You're Jamie Goodwin.
Speaker 4: Oh mister you're gone away?
Speaker 16: Who cares if a backwards boy like me live or die?
Speaker 2: Going away and leave me.
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Speaker 2: I'm shut and all