1 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,600 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:20,359 going to bring you this week's episode of Cloak and Dagger. 4 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,760 But first, I do want to encourage you, if you 5 00:00:24,839 --> 00:00:29,199 are enjoying the podcast, to please follow us using your 6 00:00:29,359 --> 00:00:35,840 favorite podcast software and our listener support and appreciation campaign continues. 7 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:40,320 You can become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for 8 00:00:40,399 --> 00:00:44,119 two dollars per month by going to Patreon dot Great 9 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:50,640 Detectives dot net. But now, from July twenty third, nineteen fifty, 10 00:00:51,119 --> 00:00:54,159 here is the Secret Box. 11 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the 12 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:04,280 enemy lines knowing you may never return alive? 13 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,359 Speaker 3: What you have just heard is the question asked during 14 00:01:15,359 --> 00:01:19,560 the war to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens who 15 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,799 to this question answered yes. 16 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,799 Speaker 2: This is Cloak and Dagger. 17 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 3: Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of 18 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:54,239 the OSS. In today's adventure, the Secret Box concerning an 19 00:01:54,239 --> 00:01:57,480 American agent who was sent into a Japanese infested jungle 20 00:01:57,719 --> 00:02:00,920 who take back a prisoner. The role of John Marco, 21 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,519 the OSS agent, is played by comedy star Jerry Lester. 22 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,719 The story is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the 23 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:13,680 Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story 24 00:02:13,759 --> 00:02:15,159 that can now be told. 25 00:02:20,439 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 4: I always carried this little box. I never knew when 26 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,919 it might come in handy. It was about as big 27 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:31,039 as a small lunch box. Well, to begin at the beginning, 28 00:02:34,439 --> 00:02:36,439 I happen to be in the radio room at OSS 29 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,319 headquarters in Bambo that night when the message came through. 30 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:46,199 Speaker 5: How important chap on the captive for you, can you 31 00:02:46,439 --> 00:02:48,879 come get him? 32 00:02:48,879 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 6: Come soon? 33 00:02:50,719 --> 00:02:56,879 Speaker 2: Chop only chum away again for. 34 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 5: Headquarterter in Mama to Agel Terry. 35 00:03:14,039 --> 00:03:16,479 Speaker 4: So that's how Harry Stevens and I happened to be 36 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,719 in an eighty eighteen flying over Agent Terry's position about 37 00:03:20,719 --> 00:03:24,400 eighty six miles behind enemy lines in Burma. And like 38 00:03:24,479 --> 00:03:27,599 I say, I had this little box in my knapsack. 39 00:03:28,159 --> 00:03:30,400 Oh oh, in case I forgot to mention it. My 40 00:03:30,479 --> 00:03:33,479 name is Johnny Marco Snappy Songs and what are he sayings? 41 00:03:33,879 --> 00:03:37,840 Just mentioned my name in Sheboygan. Oh they loved me 42 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:38,520 in Sheboygan. 43 00:03:38,639 --> 00:03:40,199 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I know, Marco. 44 00:03:40,479 --> 00:03:42,159 Speaker 4: Hey, Harry, did I ever tell you about my last 45 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:44,080 date in Frisco before I went overseas I. 46 00:03:44,039 --> 00:03:46,719 Speaker 6: Can hardly wait. Her name was Rose. 47 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 4: She had a name like a flower and a face 48 00:03:50,199 --> 00:03:53,319 like a weed. I called her cream a weed because 49 00:03:53,319 --> 00:03:54,360 she was so mushy. 50 00:03:55,439 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 6: Marco, I have but one thing to say to you. 51 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 4: Well, talk to me. 52 00:03:58,479 --> 00:04:00,479 Speaker 6: I hope you'll live to be as old as you jokes. 53 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 4: You know the trouble with you, Harry. You don't realize 54 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,199 you're carting around a million dollars worth of talent. I 55 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,479 tell you they love me and your boy. 56 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 2: I'm in the city. 57 00:04:10,439 --> 00:04:12,159 Speaker 6: Hang on, I'm gonna take a dive, see if i 58 00:04:12,199 --> 00:04:13,199 can find a landing strip. 59 00:04:25,879 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 4: We had figured our checkpoints carefully, but when we reached 60 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,759 our rendezvous, all we could see was a rough field 61 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,480 with a Buddhist pagoda at the fire end. Nothing else, 62 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,879 No landing strip, no markers, no one waiting downstairs. Just 63 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,959 a rough field covered with brush. We knew something must 64 00:04:42,959 --> 00:04:43,480 have gone wrong. 65 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 6: I don't get if, Marco. 66 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:48,399 Speaker 4: Well, the jap's probably closed in and they're afraid to 67 00:04:48,399 --> 00:04:49,040 come out of hiding. 68 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 3: Oh great, live jaft. Prisoners aren't dropped in our laps 69 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,240 every day. Hey, Harry, huh who is this agent Terry? 70 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 6: Anyway? 71 00:04:56,759 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 3: Oh, missionary, it's been working with a tribe of Anglo 72 00:05:00,079 --> 00:05:03,399 or me for years. Colonel says he's already radioed back 73 00:05:03,399 --> 00:05:05,800 a lot of information on enemy physicians. This is the 74 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,199 first prisoner he's ever taken. What a rotten break. 75 00:05:08,399 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 4: Will look circle around again, maybe we'll see something. 76 00:05:17,399 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 5: Up. 77 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,319 Speaker 6: Better head back before we run into trouble ourselves. 78 00:05:20,319 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 4: Hey, Harry, Harry, Look look the brush it's being yanked away. 79 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I see it. Look those natives they're putting 80 00:05:27,079 --> 00:05:28,439 up the white Marcus stripes, the. 81 00:05:28,399 --> 00:05:31,439 Speaker 4: Safety land panels out. It just like seeing something pumped 82 00:05:31,439 --> 00:05:32,079 before your eyes. 83 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 2: Let's go. 84 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 4: And landing strip came out of nowhere, just all of 85 00:05:39,399 --> 00:05:42,519 a sudden, there it was. The plane bumped the ground 86 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,360 and rolled in. But we kept the motor still running 87 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,519 in case of a jab trick. And we sat there 88 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,480 waited for whatever was going to happen next. Harry, Harry, Look, look, 89 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:56,120 look something or somebody's coming out of that clump of 90 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:57,160 bamboo at the end of the field. 91 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,959 Speaker 6: Yeah, hip your hand on your gun. 92 00:06:01,399 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 3: I'll make a quick getaway if I have to check, Harry, Harry. 93 00:06:07,079 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 4: Natives, Yeah, but are they friendly spears? Hey the arm 94 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:12,240 let's get out of here. 95 00:06:12,319 --> 00:06:12,519 Speaker 2: Yeah. 96 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:24,519 Speaker 3: Hey, wait a minute, there's a white woman with him. 97 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 7: I am missus Terry. Gentlemen, one would never suspect I 98 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:29,160 was a n agent. 99 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,199 Speaker 6: Two it one, Well what's the angle? I mean, well, 100 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:33,800 I think you point. 101 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 7: Oh it's very simple. Really, my husband, the late Reverend 102 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,639 Oscar Terry of God killing Man, went to his rest 103 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:42,519 a few months ago. 104 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 4: You mean man that you're the agent who's been sending 105 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,079 all that information to OSS headquarters in Bambo. 106 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,759 Speaker 7: Naturally this is Lynn Taw. I suppose you'd call him 107 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,199 the right hand man. Say how'd you do? Lynn? 108 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:55,879 Speaker 2: How you do? Hi? 109 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 7: Lynn incidentally sent the radio message. He does so enjoy 110 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:06,920 tinkering with mechanical devices. I showed him how to use it. Unfortunately, however, 111 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:11,600 my husband, the late referend Oscar Terry, a god filling man, 112 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:13,680 is the only one of us who knew how to 113 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,639 take it apart and put it together again. 114 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 2: Lynn, Yes, miss Tarring, that radio? 115 00:07:19,759 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 6: You have it? 116 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 7: I have it here, excellent captain. Would you either have 117 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,399 this replaced in Bomo with new parts? I have a 118 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:28,800 new radio dropped over to. 119 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 6: Us by sure, missus Terry. I'll see what can be 120 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:31,120 done for you. 121 00:07:31,199 --> 00:07:35,759 Speaker 7: Oh, thank you so much, Oh fancy I almost forgot. 122 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,680 We have a Japanese prisoner for you. 123 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 4: About a half a dozen natives a short distance away 124 00:07:44,959 --> 00:07:45,959 standing around the cart. 125 00:07:46,959 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 8: In it. 126 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 4: They had a jab officer with his hands and feet tight. 127 00:07:50,399 --> 00:07:51,279 Speaker 6: They dragged him over. 128 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:00,279 Speaker 4: He was a surly character. Maybe I would under the 129 00:08:00,319 --> 00:08:01,240 same circumstances. 130 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:02,319 Speaker 2: Anyway. 131 00:08:02,319 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 4: He didn't say a word, just glared at us from 132 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,600 under the bloody bandage around his head. 133 00:08:06,879 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 7: Here is your guest, gentlemen, Colonel Siwaka, the Japanese high Command. 134 00:08:13,319 --> 00:08:18,040 He resisted arrest rather strenuously, so it was impossible to 135 00:08:18,079 --> 00:08:23,399 avoid banging around a bit. Well, goodbye, now, good luck. 136 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,680 Do give my regards to your colonel. 137 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 4: We loaded Colonel Slowaka into the small plane, and a 138 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,279 few seconds later, as we swung over the field, we 139 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,679 looked down and saw that all trace of the strip 140 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,000 had completely disappeared. The brush was replaced and there was 141 00:08:48,039 --> 00:08:49,960 nothing only jungle. 142 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:53,919 Speaker 6: How's our friend, Colonel Siwaka doing, Marco? 143 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 4: While he's a little tied up at the moment, Hey friend, 144 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:03,120 how you doing? Friend doesn't want to talk? 145 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 3: You know something, that's the best audience you'll ever have, Marco. 146 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:07,960 One who can't understand English. 147 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 4: Oh come on now, will your hair? Hey, maybe you 148 00:09:10,799 --> 00:09:15,120 got something? Hey friend? Uh, did you know that the 149 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,559 former ruler of Russia was called the Tsar? His wife 150 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:21,000 was called the csarena? And you know what they call 151 00:09:21,039 --> 00:09:26,120 his kids. Get a load of this czardines? 152 00:09:29,279 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 2: Yeah you know? 153 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 6: I think you're right, Harry. 154 00:09:32,279 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 4: Friend obviously doesn't understand a word of comedy English. 155 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 6: Oh what's that? Chat? 156 00:09:37,519 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 9: Backack? 157 00:09:37,879 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 6: They've spotted us. Can we get away from him? 158 00:09:39,759 --> 00:09:39,879 Speaker 10: Now? 159 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 6: We can try. 160 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 4: That's climbing, Harry, gee a thousand feet in. 161 00:09:48,519 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 2: About a half a minute. It's no good. 162 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 6: Hack it out of rageous way. 163 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:53,759 Speaker 4: But what do we do? 164 00:09:53,799 --> 00:09:55,919 Speaker 3: I'll level off and head for home. I can't get 165 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,200 away from him just climbing. 166 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 4: You did it. We're not arranged now. 167 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,799 Speaker 6: I think I just spoke too fast. Trouble Black must 168 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:12,080 have hit one of the engines. It's not all fine 169 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:13,679 that it could have been worse. I can get us 170 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:14,440 back on one. 171 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,039 Speaker 4: Brother. If you were your sister, i'd marry. 172 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 6: Oh you're a big hearted guy, you know that, Marco. 173 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 3: Well, I don't go around for rose and every day 174 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,919 you better go back and see our friend is doing. 175 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 10: When the colonel sawaka doing extreme well, thank you? Keep 176 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,000 me your hands on the flying instruments. The captain, Hey, 177 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,440 and you, lieutenant, keep me your hands and their way 178 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:37,799 in there. 179 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,799 Speaker 4: I thank you? Are you dirty dog face? You spoke 180 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:42,879 English all the time. 181 00:10:42,919 --> 00:10:45,519 Speaker 10: Enough to tell you that if you do not as 182 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:48,840 you are told, I put the boy through your heads. 183 00:10:49,799 --> 00:10:53,240 I thank you, lieutenant, for have you been gone within 184 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,879 easier reach? And you do anything, do not talk, just 185 00:10:58,039 --> 00:11:02,879 to continual to fly plane. 186 00:11:03,639 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 4: So Harry kept the plane steady, his back to our friend, 187 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,639 and I just stood there and watched Colonel Siwaka as 188 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,480 he manipulated the parachute and buckle it on, changing the 189 00:11:14,519 --> 00:11:16,360 gun from one hand to the other as he put 190 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,080 his arms through the straps of the choote. Then he 191 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:20,360 opened the handle of the waiste door. 192 00:11:21,919 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 10: I we say good bye now it was on a 193 00:11:25,799 --> 00:11:26,759 pleasant to ride. 194 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 4: Why you had it in the air. 195 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:35,919 Speaker 9: Keep my hands in air? Watch better? Now I shoot 196 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:36,639 you both. 197 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 4: Then I jump goodbye, friend, don't forget to ride. 198 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:43,919 Speaker 3: Jack shouldn't have opened the waist first. All I had 199 00:11:43,919 --> 00:11:45,639 to do was bank the plane over and it's side 200 00:11:45,639 --> 00:11:45,919 and we. 201 00:11:45,919 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 4: Lost Yeah, we lost him all right? Oh he shoot open? 202 00:11:52,639 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 6: Oh fine, Uh, mission unaccomplished. Well anyway, it was a 203 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:58,320 nice ride. 204 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 3: Glad uh second engine couldn't take the strain of that 205 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:03,960 flip flop was punking out. 206 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:08,279 Speaker 9: Yeah, it cut all right? 207 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 6: Hit the soap, Marco, we better pail out. 208 00:12:16,759 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 4: I made it okay, rolled over a couple of times 209 00:12:19,399 --> 00:12:22,120 when I landed and pulled the shoot down. But it 210 00:12:22,159 --> 00:12:27,320 was another story with Harry. As he bailed out, his 211 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,679 slipstream caught him, flung him back against the horizontal stabilizer 212 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:32,759 and cut a gash. 213 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 6: In his head. 214 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,039 Speaker 4: Miraculously, his shoot open and he drifted into the green 215 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,320 jungle and landed upside down in the top of a 216 00:12:39,399 --> 00:12:46,639 tall mahogany tree. Harry, Harry, are you all right? Can 217 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:47,080 you talk? 218 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 2: Mark? Strapline of the shute? It tangled? 219 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,799 Speaker 9: Kick it out my head? 220 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 2: I cut it, yeah, I see Marco. 221 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 6: Get me done? 222 00:12:58,639 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 2: Yeah? 223 00:12:59,039 --> 00:13:04,879 Speaker 4: Yeah, easy boy. Now I'll do something something But what 224 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:07,399 I tried to climb the tree to. 225 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,399 Speaker 6: Reach them, but it was no use. 226 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 4: The trunk was bare smooth. I kept slipping back. It 227 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:17,720 was the two of us were in the middle of 228 00:13:17,759 --> 00:13:22,720 a nightmare. Harry, Harry, can you hear me? 229 00:13:23,039 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 2: Yeah? 230 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,759 Speaker 4: I can't climb that lousy tree. It's too slippery. There's 231 00:13:27,799 --> 00:13:30,399 nothing for me to hold on. Marco, it's no yourse, Well, 232 00:13:30,399 --> 00:13:32,559 oh what do you mean? It's no use you waste. 233 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 6: Time standing there, You'll be caught. Jap's all around. You 234 00:13:35,639 --> 00:13:36,960 know that as well as I Harry. 235 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,679 Speaker 3: When you're listening now, you're listening to me, get away now, 236 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:40,000 will you? 237 00:13:40,519 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 6: They may have seen the place. 238 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 4: Shut up now when you're shut it out of a 239 00:13:43,159 --> 00:13:45,080 boat that ducks. 240 00:13:44,759 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 3: I know I am anyway, Just do one thing, Marco, Yeah, 241 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,919 don't leave me here to stop or falling the Jeff hands. 242 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 6: Maybe you can make it back along. 243 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 4: You're nuts now, I couldn't do that. 244 00:13:58,759 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 3: Just don't leave me to start, please, please, huh shook 245 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,519 me first, so the head marker, please. 246 00:14:10,399 --> 00:14:13,919 Speaker 4: I knew he was right. I couldn't leave him plase marker, 247 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,039 not that way, and I couldn't. 248 00:14:16,759 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 6: Stay maka well. 249 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 4: I took the forty five from the holster at my belt. 250 00:14:22,759 --> 00:14:25,000 When I heard the dry click of the hammer being 251 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,919 drawn back, I broke out in a sweat. My hands 252 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:37,399 started to get wet. Marca, I counted one, two, and. 253 00:14:37,519 --> 00:14:39,519 Speaker 9: The looks of it, we are right in time. 254 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,039 Speaker 4: Lynn Tow and the natives went to work swiftly knocking 255 00:14:49,039 --> 00:14:52,200 down a second, smaller tree against the mahogany. They scaled 256 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,120 it like cats to the base of the branch where 257 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,120 Harry was hanging, tossed a loop of rattan across the 258 00:14:57,159 --> 00:15:00,480 branch and told a torrent. Then they lift Harry and 259 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,000 passed him from hand to hand and lowered him gently 260 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:05,399 to the ground. And all the time I just stood 261 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,399 there next to missus Terry, feeling the blood pounding in 262 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:13,559 my head. And I put the pistol back into my 263 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:15,159 holster and. 264 00:15:15,759 --> 00:15:16,639 Speaker 7: That other bandage. 265 00:15:16,679 --> 00:15:19,559 Speaker 2: Please here, here you are, Miss Terry. 266 00:15:19,679 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 7: That's a good fellow. Thank you so much. How is 267 00:15:24,039 --> 00:15:26,360 your head now, Captain Stevens much better face? 268 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:28,519 Speaker 4: I still don't understand. 269 00:15:29,039 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 7: How did you hear so the Japanese act gut hit 270 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,399 your plane almost immediately after you left us. We came 271 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,679 along with the jungle in case this should be need 272 00:15:36,679 --> 00:15:37,279 of us. 273 00:15:37,679 --> 00:15:41,559 Speaker 4: Lady, no one ever needed you more. 274 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,879 Speaker 7: You say, Colonel sir Waker, escape dear here for the kitty. 275 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:50,240 H Now I think that bandage will do. 276 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,039 Speaker 2: Do you get back, Miss Terry? 277 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:52,519 Speaker 5: Yes? 278 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:58,919 Speaker 2: Lynn Lynn say leave now? Do not stay back to village? 279 00:15:59,039 --> 00:16:02,279 Speaker 7: Oh yes, great, but that poses a problem. As I 280 00:16:02,399 --> 00:16:04,639 told you earlier. Our radio is out of use. 281 00:16:04,879 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 4: There's no way of contacting headquarters and telling them to 282 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:07,799 send a plane for. 283 00:16:07,799 --> 00:16:11,159 Speaker 7: Us, exactly, Lieutenant Marco, Well, do. 284 00:16:11,159 --> 00:16:12,799 Speaker 4: You think we can make it back through enemy lines 285 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:13,240 on foot? 286 00:16:14,039 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 7: Possibly take five or six days anyway, But it. 287 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:21,039 Speaker 4: Could be done, couldn't it. I mean we could sneak through. 288 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 9: Couldn't we by. 289 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 7: Passed the JAT So I don't can't do? 290 00:16:24,879 --> 00:16:27,039 Speaker 2: Brind Car help, Thank. 291 00:16:26,879 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 7: Your capitalized Lynn Tao, my husband, the late repend Oscar Terry. 292 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 2: A god fearing man, thank you. 293 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 7: He would approve heartily. 294 00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:49,919 Speaker 4: Lynn Tao knew plenty of short cuts, and we followed him, 295 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:54,440 skirting Jap patrols all the way. There was something uncanny 296 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,759 about the way he led us over miles of jungles. 297 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,639 We kept our packs light because we had a pretty 298 00:16:59,639 --> 00:17:04,079 long high take ahead. But just the same, I kept 299 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:07,319 that little box with me. I never knew when it 300 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,279 might come in handy. Then we came to a small stream. 301 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 2: Our Moscow to stream here take off shore. 302 00:17:15,519 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 4: Well wait a minute, then, why bother? We'll be wading 303 00:17:18,039 --> 00:17:20,519 through a lot of water, and why take our shoes 304 00:17:20,559 --> 00:17:21,000 off and on? 305 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 2: But do Ashlyn say if she get wet feet? 306 00:17:25,559 --> 00:17:30,079 Speaker 8: Wet or time many saw come on feet well, not 307 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,799 be easy for you to walk much distance to Obama. 308 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 4: We crossed several more brooks, and we kept taking our 309 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,960 shoes off than not on and off. The jungle along 310 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,240 the banks grew thinner, and so did we. The sun 311 00:17:47,279 --> 00:17:51,119 beat down harder, the water washed, stand up around our knees, 312 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:57,799 the shoes off and not on and off. We'd splash 313 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:02,680 him and then stumping, and then start walking again. A 314 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:07,599 couple of days of this, you're pretty beat except for 315 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:08,160 iron Man. 316 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:09,839 Speaker 2: N Ah, feel. 317 00:18:09,559 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 6: Good, Linden. Then the sun had to hold up a while. 318 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,599 Speaker 2: We'll rest here near scream. 319 00:18:16,039 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 4: Hey, this is an ideal spot for a picnic. Fifty 320 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:23,880 million insects can't be rough. Got your first, you little foreigner. 321 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 6: Marcaa got the water left my canteens dry? 322 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, here. 323 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,039 Speaker 6: It's so you got. It's okay, Go ahead, dragon, lend 324 00:18:32,039 --> 00:18:35,240 the swallow water we could when do say, do not worry. 325 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 2: Watch I will show what to do. So you know. 326 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 6: Hey, wait a minute, what are you taking? The hold 327 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:41,440 in the sand. 328 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:47,839 Speaker 8: Pot first dick small hall in sand near stream ways 329 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:54,039 leave in bomb i geese and water come to shant 330 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:57,440 and leave it not be muddy can bring. 331 00:18:57,519 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 4: Hey, that's the greatest. The leaves act like a filler. 332 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 2: Of our water is clear. Uh, drink it with your hand. 333 00:19:05,319 --> 00:19:06,039 Will not hurt you. 334 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 4: Now this lind Tao had a dozen cute little tricks 335 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:14,519 like that, he'd have been a riot and vodell well. 336 00:19:14,559 --> 00:19:17,119 The next morning we were back on the trail, pushing 337 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:20,279 our way through sharp blades of grass, and all of 338 00:19:20,319 --> 00:19:22,039 a sudden we heard the tinkle of an iron bell. 339 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,599 Speaker 6: Helen, what's that? I escape book? 340 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 8: Elephant coming thank to us villagr in jungle put iron 341 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,799 fell around neck to warm or thanks to our guns. 342 00:19:29,839 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 6: We've got guns. Let's shoot at. 343 00:19:31,079 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 2: Us on our shoot You have been left. Not go 344 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,640 too hide, only leave the elephant. 345 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 6: Anyway, Do not sooth still. 346 00:19:40,079 --> 00:19:41,079 Speaker 7: The size of them. 347 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 4: Look at the size of them. It's like being charged 348 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,480 at by a six story still. 349 00:19:46,079 --> 00:19:49,799 Speaker 2: Do not shoot yet, only if we must. 350 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,759 Speaker 4: Shot passed right by us here. 351 00:19:56,759 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 6: Maybe he didn't think we were worth noticing. 352 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,559 Speaker 4: You know, something to hurt One thing? I can't figure 353 00:20:01,559 --> 00:20:04,400 out about an elephant with a tail at both ends. 354 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,400 How does he know which end to sit on? 355 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 6: Funny man, come on, let's make time. 356 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 4: Lynn Taud did our seeing and our thinking for us. 357 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,079 He did everything but walked for us, and we got 358 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:19,160 sort of used to leaning on him. Nothing could happen 359 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:20,279 to iron man Lynn. 360 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:22,039 Speaker 2: Only it did. 361 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 6: Lynn Lynn. 362 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,079 Speaker 4: Harry, Harry, He's dead. That knife went right in his back. 363 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:32,799 Speaker 6: Where did it come from? 364 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 2: What? 365 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 4: They came out of the jungle, at least fifty of them, 366 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,440 half naked savages, carrying long stalks of bamboo that had 367 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,440 been sharpened to deadly points. Their leader was a giant, 368 00:20:48,319 --> 00:20:51,440 must have been about six foot seven. He held up 369 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:55,559 his hand, and the sudden silence scared us more than. 370 00:20:55,480 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 2: The noise we done thee What did he say? 371 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:01,759 Speaker 4: Did you understand him? 372 00:21:01,759 --> 00:21:02,039 Speaker 2: Harry? 373 00:21:02,079 --> 00:21:08,839 Speaker 6: I look, friend, France heavy frimt nuh. 374 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:13,839 Speaker 2: No, friend, Juan Dunlee, White devil. 375 00:21:16,079 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 6: White devils. 376 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 2: That was us. 377 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 4: The slashed off pieces of the vine ropes around the 378 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,480 tree and twisted them about us so we could just 379 00:21:24,559 --> 00:21:28,039 move our legs. Then they pushed us ahead of them 380 00:21:28,039 --> 00:21:31,400 through the great daylight of the jungle, through the dim 381 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,599 passages of winding leanas the climbing tropical plants. 382 00:21:35,799 --> 00:21:36,279 Speaker 2: The above us. 383 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 4: Stray bird shot the. 384 00:21:37,599 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 6: Color through the overhanging trees. 385 00:21:45,759 --> 00:21:48,559 Speaker 4: After about a mile, the path became a trail. The 386 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,519 Leannas were cut away. We tripped over some coconut husks 387 00:21:52,519 --> 00:21:55,440 by the side of a chardfire. We were coming into 388 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,519 the village. Then Harry saw them first, Marker Luk. 389 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:01,279 Speaker 6: Up there on the poles. 390 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 4: Human heads, a rower, skulls. 391 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,400 Speaker 6: Head hunters, Marca, there's a head hunters. 392 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,400 Speaker 2: Wolf, Guam Dunley Wolf. 393 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 4: Hey, look, chief Chief, you got it all wrong. Now, No, 394 00:22:15,039 --> 00:22:15,759 we're not devils. 395 00:22:15,839 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 2: We're friends. 396 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 7: Friends. 397 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:26,279 Speaker 10: It's American. You are right, it's no yours. Colonel Swaker, 398 00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:29,960 I am a great the friends of these ahead hunters, 399 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,119 so I want them out your coming. Told them you 400 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,240 are Quan Dunlee, what devils who come to bring a puaga? 401 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:42,400 And the question and stood them jeef, what the devils away? 402 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 2: Then Guam Dunley. 403 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:54,599 Speaker 4: Basha the young Titus and threw us in a straw 404 00:22:54,759 --> 00:22:58,119 thatched how they called the Basha. Through the makeshift door, 405 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,799 we could see the skulls on the pole, an endless 406 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,799 row of them under the hot sun, and up the 407 00:23:04,839 --> 00:23:08,839 poles streamed columns of jungle ants giving them an ancient burial. 408 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 6: Looks like the end of the line. Marko, Yeah, hey. 409 00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:16,599 Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Harry, that Chief speaks a little pigeon English. 410 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,960 He understands a little. Do you think we could reason 411 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:20,279 with him? 412 00:23:20,519 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 3: It doesn't look like a reasonable type. Besides, our friend 413 00:23:24,039 --> 00:23:27,640 Colonel Siwaka got to him first. The tribes convinced with dangerous. 414 00:23:28,079 --> 00:23:31,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, but as dangerous as a glass of buttermilk, lot 415 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,559 money bucket that Waka outside talking to the curt. 416 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 2: We got company. 417 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 9: I do the U are comfort? Captain? 418 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:44,279 Speaker 4: Why don't you climb a tree? A little monkey watch. 419 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 9: A tongue. 420 00:23:46,759 --> 00:23:49,319 Speaker 10: Was the most affortunate for me. I found a way 421 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,880 here to a friend a camp. Sorry, I don't like 422 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,119 your friends. My friends do not to work you either. 423 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,359 I think you are devil Americans. We'll bring evil to 424 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:07,240 the people. Sleep well, tomorrow you will join the heads 425 00:24:07,599 --> 00:24:08,359 on the poles. 426 00:24:17,519 --> 00:24:20,759 Speaker 4: In the morning, they brought us out. I guess we 427 00:24:20,759 --> 00:24:23,400 were pretty important because the big chief himself came over 428 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,640 to tie us to the poles. Then I got an idea. 429 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,920 I sleeped my hand in my pocket and grabbed a coin, 430 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:30,759 just held it tight. 431 00:24:31,039 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 2: Kwan dunlee. Tie you now, hey, Jeeve, look at this. 432 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:42,039 Speaker 4: What are you doing carrying dimes around in your ear? Well? 433 00:24:42,079 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 6: What do you know? 434 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:47,759 Speaker 4: Another in your other ear? And here's one in your nose. 435 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,160 Say you're a pretty sly carriacter. Aren't you a regular 436 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,440 walking back of Englandbarka, What are you working to? Just 437 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,160 a couple of magic tricks. If I can get away 438 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,960 with them, I'll tell you they love me, Mudgie. That's right, 439 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,200 Toba magic. Now if you get me that knapsack you 440 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:12,039 grab for me, I'll do more. See knapsack bag from back, Sammie, remember, 441 00:25:12,559 --> 00:25:13,759 will do Toba. 442 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 9: You will not listen to band but off a head now. 443 00:25:17,319 --> 00:25:19,559 Speaker 4: Hate you look at this, Look at this, now you 444 00:25:19,599 --> 00:25:26,039 see it? Now you don't resto coins disappear? Oh get 445 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,119 knapsack or you'll disappear. Sabbie. 446 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 2: Good sharp run by Hua boy. 447 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 4: That coin trick got him in the che pushed Sowaka's side. 448 00:25:41,559 --> 00:25:43,839 Send one of his rover boys to get my knapsacked. 449 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,759 They brought it to me and I took out the 450 00:25:46,759 --> 00:25:50,920 little bottle. I always knew it would come in handy sometime. 451 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,960 Then the chief held up his hand again. Both h 452 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:01,039 and I went into my act. Ruh, what an audience 453 00:26:01,759 --> 00:26:06,039 and what a performance. I'll watch closely, ladies and gentlemen. 454 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:10,079 The hand is quicker than the eye. Rest to change. Oh, 455 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,119 I take this little glass of water, just an ordinary 456 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,279 glass of water. If you will observe closely and resto 457 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,319 it turns color. 458 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 6: You're doing great, I tell you. 459 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:24,839 Speaker 2: Cut off of the hats. 460 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 4: Still you tell them cheef go away, little man, you 461 00:26:30,759 --> 00:26:33,240 bother me. Now for the next bit of magic, ladies 462 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:41,000 and gentlemen. I pulled every trick in the book out 463 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,559 of that little box, dow cigarettes from the chiefs here, 464 00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:49,160 pulled flowers out of empty pots, yanked a dozen colored 465 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,279 scarves out of a single white handkerchief. And then I 466 00:26:53,319 --> 00:26:57,880 broke a stick in half and put it together. Boy 467 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:02,480 did they love it. And now by my final bit 468 00:27:02,519 --> 00:27:04,240 of hocus pocus, ladies and gentlemen. 469 00:27:04,599 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 6: Why was he tried walk and have them forget to 470 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:07,759 put them together? 471 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 4: I got something better as I was saying, you're coming after, 472 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:21,039 Maybe this will stop him. Look what sign from God's 473 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:30,720 look stopped him? All right? I pulled a bee blower 474 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,039 out of the box blue Hawk, and out came a 475 00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:38,799 tiny doll dressed in a jack uniform, without his head, and. 476 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:40,839 Speaker 2: He floated to earth. 477 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,559 Speaker 4: A superstitious native stepped back, afraid to come any closer. 478 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:52,440 See see sign Japanese is Kwandan Lee. God say so 479 00:27:53,400 --> 00:28:00,839 Americans friends, friends, doll there on the ground. Japanese now 480 00:28:01,559 --> 00:28:07,599 signed from Gods, follow great White father and fight Japanese chief. 481 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,039 Speaker 2: You tell him I'll do you to God. 482 00:28:12,799 --> 00:28:15,200 Speaker 4: He told them all right, big trouble. We had a 483 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,799 keeping them from tearing Sawaka apart. We wanted them alive 484 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:27,680 to take back to OSS headquarters in Bamo. Well that's 485 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,039 the story. The next day the headhunters let us back 486 00:28:31,039 --> 00:28:34,160 through the jungle with our prisoner. There's only one thing 487 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,519 I'm sorry about. Too bad variety couldn't have caught my act. 488 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,720 I tell you they loved me. 489 00:28:40,759 --> 00:28:49,079 Speaker 3: In Burma, Captain Harry Stevens and Lieutenant John Marco safely 490 00:28:49,119 --> 00:28:52,799 delivered Colonel Slowaka to os S headquarters in Bambo, where 491 00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:56,240 he gave valuable information on Japanese war industry and finance. 492 00:28:57,559 --> 00:29:01,680 And so, once again, the report of ANOTHERSS agent closes with. 493 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,039 Speaker 2: The words mission accomplished. 494 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,079 Speaker 3: Listen again next week for another true adventure from the 495 00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:08,880 files of the OSS on. 496 00:29:11,359 --> 00:29:13,119 Speaker 2: Clap and Dagger. 497 00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:37,519 Speaker 11: Starred in today's Cloak and Dagger Adventure as Marco was 498 00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:44,400 Jerry Lester, with Larry Haynes as Harry. Colonel Siwaka, Daniel Lockoe, Missus, Terry, 499 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,880 Irene Hubbard, the Colonel Raymond Edward Johnson. Others were Carl Weber, 500 00:29:49,279 --> 00:29:52,640 Arnold Robertson and Jerry Jarrett. The script was written by 501 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,559 Wonterford Wolf and Jack Gordon. The music was under the 502 00:29:55,559 --> 00:29:59,680 direction of Murray Ross. Today's True Oss Adventure was based 503 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,880 on the book Cloakandagger by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain. 504 00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:06,359 This has been a lowis Gicon production in association with 505 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,480 Alfred Hollander. This was under the direction and supervision of 506 00:30:09,519 --> 00:30:14,720 Sherman Marx Programs. Get your programs here, mystery fans. There's 507 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,920 an exciting evening waiting for you tonight on NBC. First, 508 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,440 some listener will have a chance to win one thousand 509 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,319 dollars for solving the case on one thousand dollars reward. 510 00:30:25,839 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 2: Welcome back. 511 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: A great story, so many great twist and turns in 512 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,359 this adventure, and I like, just as with the episode 513 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,079 with the cartoon is you get an illustration of how 514 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,839 people in the OSS came from a lot of civilian 515 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:48,119 backgrounds that came in handy in ways that you wouldn't expect. Now, 516 00:30:48,119 --> 00:30:51,759 it's worth noting that our star. Jerry Lester was kind 517 00:30:51,759 --> 00:30:54,960 of a big deal in nineteen fifty. This was his 518 00:30:55,240 --> 00:31:00,000 first radio dramatic role, but he did a lot of comedy. 519 00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:04,000 He was a featured comic on the Craft Music Hall 520 00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:06,680 in the early forties, and then he got his own 521 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,759 show for Pebsident in nineteen forty three. And he was 522 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:17,359 also a pioneer on television. He hosted Broadway Open House 523 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:22,279 in nineteen fifty and nineteen fifty one, which is often 524 00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:27,319 cited as a precursor to the Tonight Show. He began 525 00:31:27,519 --> 00:31:33,240 alternating with Moury Ancesterdam before becoming the Soul host later 526 00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:36,559 on in the season. Steve Allen, who was the first 527 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,599 Tonight Show host, said that the big problem for Broadway 528 00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:45,880 Open House was that it was still really early in 529 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,000 the age of television. There were a lot of mid 530 00:31:49,079 --> 00:31:52,279 size cities that didn't have TV, and you also had 531 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:55,480 sponsors who really didn't think that you could show a 532 00:31:55,519 --> 00:31:58,319 program at eleven o'clock, but there were some people who 533 00:31:58,359 --> 00:32:03,559 watched it. George Harlan cited it as a key early influence. 534 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,480 In addition to this, Lester also was the host of 535 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,519 Cavalcade of Stars. Now it seems to me with Kloaken 536 00:32:11,599 --> 00:32:16,480 Dagger having this big TV comedian and the real interest 537 00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:20,599 in television, this would have been a great opportunity for 538 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,960 NBC to play up the appearance. But all I could 539 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,319 find on Lester's appearance was this item from the back 540 00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:34,240 of a newspaper where someone stated that he'd been told, 541 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,839 like it was some top secret gossip that Lester was 542 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,720 going to make his first radio dramatic performance, which nicely 543 00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:46,519 confirmed that there wasn't some other radio dramatic performance that 544 00:32:46,559 --> 00:32:50,319 we'd missed more or among the many many lost episodes 545 00:32:50,359 --> 00:32:52,960 that are out there. So it seems like a bit 546 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:58,359 of a missed opportunity for NBC, although the fact that 547 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,480 NBC didn't really promote Cloak and Dagger or do any 548 00:33:02,519 --> 00:33:05,799 of that publicity work for it is part of the 549 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:11,559 reason why the series was obscure and ended up fading 550 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:17,599 to obscurity for decades afterwards. I'd really be curious what 551 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,839 sparked Leicester's interest or how this ended up working out, Like, 552 00:33:23,039 --> 00:33:26,079 was Lester a friend of somebody on the program? Now, 553 00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:31,119 of course Leicester star did fade after the nineteen fifties. 554 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,400 He did some theater. He ended up being forced into 555 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,839 retirement due to Alzheimer's in nineteen seventy five. He could 556 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:45,440 not memorize his monologues. His younger brother, Buddy might be 557 00:33:45,559 --> 00:33:49,759 more better remembered today. He did a lot of the 558 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,079 movies with Jerry Lewis, and he was also in Barney Miller, 559 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:58,599 among many many other projects as a really solid character 560 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,680 actor in many roles, particularly comedic rolls. All right, listener, 561 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,880 comments and feedback. Now we start on Spotify, where Norse 562 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:15,800 jeweler Donnie Jowler writes regarding the episode direct line to Bombers, 563 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,440 I feel bad now for not giving this show a shot. 564 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:24,880 It has the storytelling of the Silent Man with the 565 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,760 honest brutality of tales of the Texas Rangers, the strange 566 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,800 and dangerous places of dangerous assignment, with some music from 567 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,960 Johnny Dollar. Now I'm going to go back and listen 568 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,880 to episode one. Thanks for bringing these to us, Adam, Well, 569 00:34:42,039 --> 00:34:44,679 thank you so much, and I hope you enjoy them. 570 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,800 And of course coming in at the sixth episode of 571 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,920 Cloak and Dagger, not a whole lot behind, but it 572 00:34:53,079 --> 00:34:57,320 really is an underrated and under talked about series, and 573 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,159 I'm really pleased that we're able to give it some 574 00:35:01,199 --> 00:35:05,800 broader exposure as part of our Great Adventurers podcast and 575 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:10,880 getting that launched. And then we turned to a listener 576 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,559 comments on the episode from YouTube, where a listener starts 577 00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:19,440 by quoting what I said during this episode. That's why 578 00:35:19,519 --> 00:35:23,320 I'd never make it as a spy. Sounds like something 579 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:27,639 a spy would say. Oh, no, you've found me out. 580 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:29,519 Speaker 2: Now. 581 00:35:29,639 --> 00:35:32,519 Speaker 1: I would say that that was funny, but of course 582 00:35:32,559 --> 00:35:36,639 I'm not a spy, but that is also what you 583 00:35:36,679 --> 00:35:40,440 would expect to spy to say. I just I don't 584 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,960 think I can win, so I will just let the 585 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:49,880 audience determine it. I will say that large man hosting 586 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:54,760 an old time radio podcast. If that's my cover, then 587 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,119 I must work for an organization out of get smart. 588 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,599 On a more serious knowing something of the limitations of 589 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:08,039 strategic bombing this point, I have to wonder how much 590 00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:11,599 of this episode is actually real. I don't believe that 591 00:36:11,679 --> 00:36:15,760 they could call in bombers on a specific bakery. At best, 592 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,599 the barmbers could target the general area, but in that 593 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:24,880 case the agent isn't necessarily any safer by running. Well, 594 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,079 it's a good question. I do think that these are 595 00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:33,679 based on true events. However, from going through the episode 596 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:39,400 The Eyes of Buddha, I noticed that there were quite 597 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:44,280 a few points in that story which were composites of 598 00:36:44,519 --> 00:36:49,760 other events. I would assume that they wanted to cover 599 00:36:50,039 --> 00:36:54,880 as much as they could within the number of episodes 600 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,239 that were approved, so there could be some composite events, 601 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:03,480 and there could be some situations that are greatly simplified. 602 00:37:04,119 --> 00:37:09,239 Keeping in mind as well that not necessarily all operational 603 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:14,840 details of what happened during the war would be declassified, 604 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,639 so there are limitations in that direction as well. And 605 00:37:18,679 --> 00:37:23,880 then a listener tegan comments that was great. Thank you 606 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,400 love the thumbnail too, well, I'm glad that you enjoyed it. 607 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,199 Spend a lot of time trying to get those just 608 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,079 right for our listeners, and particularly on YouTube, where with 609 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:41,519 old time radio the visuals matter, even if that's what 610 00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:45,480 you're posting on YouTube. All right, well, now it is 611 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,519 time to think our Patreon supporter of the day, and 612 00:37:49,599 --> 00:37:55,119 I want to go ahead and think Monica, Patreon supporter 613 00:37:55,360 --> 00:38:01,800 since March of twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at 614 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,079 the Master Detective level of fifteen dollars or more per month. 615 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,159 Thanks so much for your support, Monica, and that will 616 00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:09,440 do it. 617 00:38:09,519 --> 00:38:10,119 Speaker 2: For today. 618 00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:14,760 Speaker 1: If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your 619 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,480 favorite podcast software. We will be back next Saturday with 620 00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:23,559 another episode of Cloak and Dagger. 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