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
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snack Wagon at snackwagon dot net. Today, we're gonna bring
you an episode of This Is Your FBI. And I
actually enjoy this series, but in general, it's a series
that I would tend to classify as much more of
a crime series than a detective series, oftentimes spending seventy
five percent of the listen time following the criminals around
as a plot as opposed to being more focused on
what the FBI is doing. Now, there are episodes that
are exceptions to this, but it lands much more on
that crime drama sort of side. As a general rule
for the series, but I enjoyed the series. It was
produced in Kuwah operation with the FBI, and it ran
for eight years. During that time they established a Christmas
tradition with their annual Christmas program which they would reperform
each year. There are several versions of this story in circulation.
I chose the one with the best sound quality. Now
Here from December twenty second, nineteen fifty is the Return
of Saint Nick.
Speaker 2: The Equitable Life Insurance Society presents this is Your FBI.
This is Your FBI, the official broadcast from the files
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presenter transcribed as a
public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the
United States, and the Equitable Society is representative in your community.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society has nearly eight thousand trained
representatives from coast to coast, serving over four million members. Tonight,
one of our Equitable Society representatives has a brief but
important message on social security.
Speaker 3: The recent changes in the Social Security law mean ten
million new people are now covered for the first time.
Others have had their benefits greatly increased. Considering these changes,
this Christmas season is a particularly good time to take
a fresh look at your future, to examine just where
you stand. To help you do this job easily, the
Equitable Society has revised its famous fact finding chart for
fathers and mothers. Let me advise you to listen carefully
when in about fourteen minutes mister Keating will tell you
more about this Equitable.
Speaker 2: Chart tonight, FBI file number two nine eight. It's subject
the Christmas season. Its title the Return of Saint Nick.
Speaker 4: The United States is a young country in the family
of nations, but already it has its share of national holidays,
holidays that belong to these forty eight states. Those holidays
are spaced from February to November, and of every one
of those days, it can be said that they belong
to the people of United States exclusively. But there is
one legal holiday observed in this country that does not
belong to us exclusively anymore than it belongs to any nation.
It too celebrates a birthday, a birthday which has come
to mean much in the hearts of millions of people.
Speaker 5: A birthday we call Christmas.
Speaker 4: Tonight's program, based on the holiday theme, has, by your requests,
become almost a tradition in our series. It opens in
an FBI field office located in a large eastern city.
It is two days before Christmas and Special Agent Jim
Taylor has just entered the office of Agent and Charge Sheridan.
Speaker 5: Morning Jim, Good morning, sir. I got my report here
on the Henderson case. Oh fine, just leave it on
my desk, will you. Well you're officially on leave, aren't you, Jim, Yes,
sir as of this morning, but I wanted to hand
this in for a lift. You going out of town
for the holiday, that's right, sir, flying home this afternoon. God,
how long since you've been home on Christmas? Three years? Well,
have a nice trip, Jim. Thank you, sir, and a
very merry Christmas. Same to your.
Speaker 6: Mister.
Speaker 5: Yes, what is it? Where's the FBI right down there
at the end of the horn.
Speaker 7: Well, thank you.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, what do you want with the FBI? Son?
Speaker 7: We've got some trouble and I thought they.
Speaker 8: Could help us.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm a special agent. Do you think I get help?
Speaker 7: Are you a genie?
Speaker 5: That's right? What kind of trouble do you have.
Speaker 7: Santa Claus is missing.
Speaker 5: That is trouble.
Speaker 7: His name is mister Norton, and we've got to find them.
We've looked all over.
Speaker 5: Who looked over all the.
Speaker 7: Soda fellas at the settlement house? We won every place.
Speaker 5: All of you old fellas. Hold on your son.
Speaker 7: I'll be ten next month.
Speaker 5: I see, can you help us? Mister Well, I don't know,
but I'll tell you what we'll do. First, Let's go
downstairs and get an ice cream soda and you can
tell me the whole story.
Speaker 7: This is the settlement house, mister Taylor. Nice talking building here,
and were going this store?
Speaker 5: Go ahead.
Speaker 7: Mister Williams's office is in there. He's a nice man.
Speaker 5: I'm sure he is the store here, Yes, but first
we must not Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 7: Who are mister Williams?
Speaker 5: Hello, Eddie, this is mister Taylor.
Speaker 9: How do you do it?
Speaker 5: Mister Taylor? I'm interesting.
Speaker 7: Mister Taylor is a g man, he is, Yes, had
got him to help us find mister Norton.
Speaker 5: Oh, I see, I've got a run now.
Speaker 7: Choir practice starts in ten minutes.
Speaker 5: All right, Eddie, you go ahead. I'll explain everything to
mister Taylor. I'll see you later, ready, mister Taylor. I'm
sorry you were bothered by Eddie. Mister Taylor, Oh, it's
not bothered at all. Mister Williams that he made me
feel genuinely concerned. I'm sure he did. We're all very
concerned about mister Norton. Well, if there's anything at all
I can do, dono officially, of course, I'd be very
happy to. That's very nice of you. What happened to
this mister Norton?
Speaker 10: Who is he?
Speaker 11: Bob Norton has worked here at the Settlement House longer
than anyone can read.
Speaker 5: I've been here fifteen years, and he was here when
I came. I see how old would you say?
Speaker 11: Yes, I'd guess around sixty or sixty five. And his
job nothing in particular. He did odd jobs around the
house and returned for his room and board in a
few dollars a month. The biggest job he had was
being Santa Claus every year at the Christmas party. Every
child in the house was crazy about him, and he
loved every one of them, and.
Speaker 5: Returned and he said he was missing. Is that true?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 5: I have no idea where he could have gone. What
made him leave? That's the odd part of it. No
one seems to know.
Speaker 11: Yesterday sending one of the boys with a note to
me saying he was leaving, immediately went to his room
and he was gone. I'm afraid it's not going to
be much of a Christmas for the children without pop
or mister Williams.
Speaker 5: Do you mind if I take a look around his room? Well,
not at all. Maybe I can find something there that
were ladies to Santa Claus is hiding good mister Williams.
Mister Williams, may I see you for a moment. Oh
certainly keeps singing? Boys? Could you find anything in mister
Norton's rooms? Stealing all that thing? Rooms cleaned up? Tell
me what do you know about mister Norton? What did
he do in his day off? Who his friends?
Speaker 11: And he never took a day off that I can remember.
The only pleasure he got out of life, besides serving.
Speaker 5: The kids was reading. He always had three or four
books from the library down the street. I'll have a
hunch mister Norton isn't going to be too difficult to find.
And why do you say that, Well, from what you've
told me, he's a man of about sixty with no
outside interests. The only thing he likes or reading in children.
That kind of a man doesn't usually run very far. Oh,
pardon all.
Speaker 9: Right, boys, you can rest a while.
Speaker 5: Sorry, mister Taylor, please go on all I was about
to say that I think he's probably still here in
the neighbors, Taylor, mister Taylor, all already.
Speaker 7: Excuse me?
Speaker 5: What is it, Eddie, I've.
Speaker 7: Been working on the case.
Speaker 5: Good for you.
Speaker 7: I spoke to a boy who saw Pop just before
he left.
Speaker 5: Well, it's fine, Eddie. What did he say?
Speaker 7: He told me that he was playing with Pop yesterday
when two ladies came into the gym.
Speaker 5: Two ladies.
Speaker 7: Yes, Pop saw me and he went and hit in
a closet until they went away.
Speaker 5: When was the city just before milk? Just before milk,
Well that's at four o'clock. They all get milk and cookies. Well,
thank you, Eddie, you've been a big help.
Speaker 7: You're welcome.
Speaker 5: I'll stay here a minute, Eddie, I've got another job
for you.
Speaker 10: Gee.
Speaker 5: Thanks Storias. Do you know these two women who came
here yesterday? One of them was a missus Chester.
Speaker 11: She's on the board of Governor's She brought a wealthy
friend of hers to try to interest her in contributing.
Speaker 5: To the house. I said, do you know this friend's name? No,
I don't, but I can find it out for missus Chester.
I appreciate you doing that, Eddie. You ready for your assignment?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, anything all right? I want you to go
to the library down the street and see if mister
Norton is there. Yes, and if he's not there, you
wait around for him. I think he might come in
for some new books. Mister Sheridan, May I see you
a minute? Well, certainly, Jim, come on in. I thought
you'd be on your way home by night, so did I.
Oh what happened? Well, when I left your office this morning,
a young boy stopped me in the hall and ask
me for some help. Yeah, what kind of help? All
he belongs to the Murray Street Settlement House, and it
seems that they're Santa claus As dissipated. He wanted us
to find him. I went back with him and I
talked to the head of the house. Well, what's the story. Well,
this mister Norton has worked at the settlement house for
about thirty years, and then yesterday he suddenly quit. Why
nobody seems to know, sir, except that he saw two
women come in, and he hid in the closet until
they left, and he packed his belongings and disappeared. I see,
I know this isn't our case, servant. Well, I'd like
to ask a favor. What is it We have no
picture of this man, Sir, I'd like to have an
artist go over to the settlement house, talk to the
kids and make up a composite picture of mister Norton.
Well what do you want that for. Well, I have
a hunch that mister Norton's still in the neighborhood. I'd
like to circulate the picture and see if we can't
get him back to the settlement house and trying to
be Santa Claus again this year. Well, now, what about
your trip home? Jim? How I can wait today? I
don't mind. All right, go ahead, we'll find an artist.
More than that, you can use any facilities we've got.
Thank you very much, Sheridan speaking.
Speaker 9: Is mister Taylor there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just the moment. It's few Jim. Oh, thank you, sir.
Speaker 9: Hello, hello mister Taylor.
Speaker 5: Oh, hello, mister Williams.
Speaker 9: I've got that information for you.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's fine.
Speaker 9: The woman with Missus Chester yesterday was a missus Norman Montgomery.
She lives at three to ten North Jackson Avenue.
Speaker 5: Missus Norman Montgomery, three ten North Jackson. Thank you very much,
mister Williams.
Speaker 9: She must have been the one Pop was afraid of.
Speaker 5: Oh why do you say that.
Speaker 9: Missus Chester's been on friendly terms with Pop for fifteen years?
Speaker 5: No, I see, Oh, mister Williams, I'm sending an artist over.
I'd appreciate you letting him talk to all of the
children so that he can make up a composite picture.
Mister Norton for us.
Speaker 9: We'll do anything we can to help mister Taylor.
Speaker 5: Fine, he should be there in about half an hour.
Speaker 9: Oh wait a minute, Eddie wants to talking.
Speaker 5: About he is Taylor. Hello, Eddie, what did you find out?
Speaker 9: Nothing?
Speaker 7: I want to a library, like you said, but.
Speaker 9: Pop never came.
Speaker 5: Well, you go back there, Eddie and keep watching. Don't
give up so easily.
Speaker 7: All right, mister Taylor, I'll come back right now.
Speaker 5: Not a boy. And Eddie, you tell all of your
friends up there that if it's at all possible for
the FBI to find Santa Claus, we'll have him there
tomorrow night for that party. Just a moment, please, Missus Montgomery. Yes,
my name is Taylor. I'm from the FBI. You have
my credentials.
Speaker 8: Man, What can I do for you, mister Data.
Speaker 5: I'd like to come in and talk to you, If
you don't.
Speaker 10: Mind, I come here.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 8: What is it you want?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm checking up on something and I'd like to
ask you a few questions.
Speaker 8: What sort of questions?
Speaker 5: Well, the first one would be were you at the
Murray Street Settlement House yesterday?
Speaker 8: Oh? Yes, I was with a Missus Chester. What has
that to do with you?
Speaker 5: Well, has nothing to do with me, Missus Montgomery. But
it might have something to do with a man who disappeared.
Speaker 8: What are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Well, this man who disappeared seemed to be afraid of
being seen by you, according to what I can gather. Well,
that's merely a theory, Missus Mntgummy.
Speaker 8: Why would he be afraid of me?
Speaker 5: And that's what we don't know?
Speaker 8: Who is this man?
Speaker 5: This is a composit picture made by one of the
artists in our office. Here you are. Do you recognize him?
Speaker 8: Yes? I do. I haven't seen or talked with him.
In the thirty years. But I know him?
Speaker 5: Oh is he?
Speaker 8: He's my brother, Kenneth.
Speaker 5: Why would your own brother try to avoid you?
Speaker 8: He had a good reason?
Speaker 5: What's that missus mcgummy?
Speaker 8: Kenneth is a common thief.
Speaker 2: We will return in just a minute due tonight's exciting case.
From the official files of your FBI.
Speaker 3: Now a short announcement from the Equitable Life Assurance Society
on its famous fact Finding Chart for Fathers and Mothers.
Speaker 2: This year, there has been an unprecedented demand for this
fact finding chart. Our revised nineteen fifty edition is practically exhausted,
so better make a note to ask your Equitable Society
representative for your copy right away. This is the last
time you will be reminded to do so on this program.
Remember this nineteen to fifty edition of the chart has
been revised to take into account the recent changes in
the Social Security Act.
Speaker 3: These changes mean that the social Security benefits of thirty
five million Americans have been increased fifty to one hundred percent,
and the names of an additional ten million of our
citizens have been added to the Social Security roles. In
either case, the Equitable's Fact Finding Chart for Fathers and
Mothers is just what the doctor ordered.
Speaker 2: When you get this chart, you pretend for a few
minutes that the breadwinner of your family has died before
his time. The family's regular monthly income is cut off,
but the children still need shoes, a roof over their heads,
nourishing food, and how much is all that going to cost?
Speaker 3: The fact finding chart for fathers and mothers will give
you a reliable and accurate answer.
Speaker 2: With their new Social Security benefits, how many additional dollars
will they need every week until the youngest child finishes
high school?
Speaker 5: In five minutes?
Speaker 3: The fact finding chart for fathers and mothers gives you
an answer that you can trust, guide you every step
of the way with simple, easy to understand pictures.
Speaker 2: Once you have the facts before you, you can plan intelligently.
Chances are that, with your present life insurance and your
new Social Security benefits, only a small amount of additional
life insurance will mean complete security. Your equitable representative will
be glad to work out a sound an economical program
for in any event. The first step is to ask
him for a copy of the revised fact finding chart
for fathers and mothers. No charge, of course, and no obligation,
So get in touch with your equitable representative soon or
write care of the station to the equitable life assur
in society.
Speaker 10: That's e q U I T A b l E.
Speaker 2: The equitable life as your in society of the United States.
And now back to the FBI file. The return of
Saint Nick.
Speaker 4: Hat is a vicious emotion which feeds upon itself and
becomes greater as time goes on. It utterly destroys every
person that possesses because it ruins their judgment by robbing
them of their ability to see both sides of any question. Ultimately,
it must dwarf the mind, and to such a degree
that only a paramount shock can restore any degree of
metal balance. As you can see from tonight's case, from
the files of your FBI, hate can make two members
of the same family stop talking for thirty years, for
a period of time that is almost half the allotted
time of man on earth. That kind of hatred can
consume a person, an industry.
Speaker 9: Or a nation.
Speaker 4: Or when a nation hates that way, the lone possible
outlet is war. No one person can prevent a war
between nations, but every one of you can make this
a much finer holiday season for yourself by resolving to
live your life with full dignity as a human being
and full respect for the rights of every other human
being on the face of the earth. To Night's file
continues in the apartment of Missus Montgomery.
Speaker 8: Mister Taylor, I assume that your business with me is concluded.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm afraid it is, Missus Montgomery, and I'm sorry
because you're the one person I hope could help us
find your brother.
Speaker 8: Where do you want to find him for?
Speaker 5: Do you arrest him?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 5: Indeed, now, until his disappearance, he worked at the Murray
Street Settlement House, and the children there love him. It's
very important to them that he'd be found so that
he can play Santa Claus at their Christmas point.
Speaker 8: Well, I haven't seen him for thirty years. I have
no idea where he might be, and frankly, I don't care.
Speaker 5: Missus Montgomery, Why do you believe your brother is a thief?
Would you mind telling me?
Speaker 8: Well, if you'll promise to keep it confidential, I naturally
want no publicity.
Speaker 5: I assure you your story will not be publicized very well.
Speaker 8: More than thirty years ago, shortly after my father's death,
Kenneth forged my name to a check for ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: How did you find out that he did it?
Speaker 8: He's perfectly obvious. He was an irresponsible young man, and
shortly after the forgeries cuddenly had a lot of money.
Speaker 5: Anyone asked him where he got it, Yes.
Speaker 8: He said he made it is a result of an investment.
Of course, that was a lie.
Speaker 5: Did you discover the fortugy yourself, Missus Montgomery, No.
Speaker 8: I didn't, But of mister Bryant, who was the executor
of my father's estate and an old friend of the family's,
found out about it, and he came and.
Speaker 5: Told me you never prosecuted the matter.
Speaker 8: Oh, mister Bryant convinced me that I shouldn't risk ruining
our family's name.
Speaker 5: Missus Montgomery, did ever occur to you that your brother
might have been telling you the truth?
Speaker 8: He couldn't have.
Speaker 5: Well, if you don't mind my saying so, I think
that anyone who has his record with children deserves more
of a break than that. Do you, bunny chance, still
have that forge check?
Speaker 10: Yes? I have it.
Speaker 5: And would you have any samples of your brother's handwriting
of that period?
Speaker 8: Yes? And kept all of the papers in the case
in a special file.
Speaker 5: Do you have that file handing?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 5: I wonder if I might borrow it, But what purpose?
I'd like to see if a hunch I have about
your brother's innocence is correct.
Speaker 8: Hello, mister Taylor, Oh.
Speaker 5: Hello, ready have a chat? Well, thank you, Eddie. What
are you doing wearing a mystage?
Speaker 7: I bought a disguiskip, mister Taylor, so I could stay
at the library and watch out for mister Norton without
him recognizing you.
Speaker 5: Idea. Oh tell me, do you see mister Norton?
Speaker 7: Yes, I did, he did well. He didn't show up
at all last night. I stayed until the library closed,
but you told me to stay on it. So I
went back this morning and he came to the library.
Speaker 5: About ten o'clock, stuck me.
Speaker 7: I tried to talk to him, but he said he
didn't know me. He did, yeah, so I took off
the red wig I was wearing, but he still said
he didn't know me, and think you do that? And
then he turned around and walked out of the library.
I trailed him, just like I saw a detective.
Speaker 10: Doing the movies.
Speaker 5: Where'd you go?
Speaker 7: I wrote down the address, mister Taylor. Here it is
seventy one Vern Avenue.
Speaker 5: That's not far from the settlement house, is it.
Speaker 7: No, it's only about two blocks.
Speaker 5: Good work, pardon.
Speaker 8: From handwriting, mister Tailor.
Speaker 5: Oh thanks very much.
Speaker 8: What's that, mister Taylor?
Speaker 5: I had some papers analyzed by our handwriting expertise.
Speaker 7: Are you going to go to see partner.
Speaker 5: In a little while? First, I've got another call to make.
Look you go back over the settlement House. I'll see
you there later on Good morning, Missus Montgomery. Good morningchem surely,
thank you. I have some news about your brother.
Speaker 8: What kind of news?
Speaker 5: Well? I took your file of papers down to the
handwriting analysis department at our office.
Speaker 8: How did you do that?
Speaker 5: Because I wanted them to study the signature on that
forged check and then to compare it with samples of
your brother's handwriting.
Speaker 8: I don't understand why you had them do all that, well.
Speaker 5: Missus Montgomery, when this crime was committed, modern scientific handwriting
analysis was not used in cases of this kind. So
today it's possible for experts to examine handwriting and to
make a sound judgment based on their study. All those
experts have just written a report stating that your brother
did not forge that check.
Speaker 8: I can't believe it.
Speaker 5: Nevertheless, it's true. I know it isn't very polite to
speak ill of the dead, but according to the report,
the executor of the estate, mister Bryant, is the man
who forged that check. That's right.
Speaker 8: I don't know what to say.
Speaker 5: I think that whatever you do have to say ought
to be said to your brother.
Speaker 8: But he's disappeared.
Speaker 5: It was found this afternoon in a rooming house on
Vernon Avenue.
Speaker 8: Mister Taylor, I'm not a young woman anymore, and about
all I have left is my pride. Will you Kenneth
to come to see me tonight?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm sorry, missus Montgomery, but I think your brother
is in pride himself. After all, he ran away when
he was innocent. No, I suggested, if you want to
see him, you'll meet us. Well, if everything goes well,
we'll be at the settlement house at eight o'clock tonight.
Who's there, misterton that's right, I'd like to talk to you, sir.
Speaker 10: Come in.
Speaker 5: Thank you, mister Norton. I'm from the FBI. There are
my credentials.
Speaker 10: What do you want here?
Speaker 5: I came up to ask you to come back to
the settlement house.
Speaker 12: I'm sorry, but I don't think that that's any.
Speaker 5: Of your business, quite right?
Speaker 10: So it isn't.
Speaker 5: May I ask you a question, what is it? Why
did you leave? Oh?
Speaker 12: Well, I just got tired of listening to all those
kids yelling and screaming in my ears.
Speaker 5: I find it pretty difficult to believe, sir, that anyone
who spent thirty years with children as you have would
suddenly get to dislike them that one.
Speaker 10: Well, maybe that's not the reason.
Speaker 12: Maybe I've got reasons of my own that I don't
want to talk about.
Speaker 5: Could it possibly be because of your sister who told
you that? Well, I'm sorry if I seem to have
pride into your affairs, mister Norton, but I've been to
see your sister.
Speaker 10: What for?
Speaker 5: Well, I went there because I was trying to find you.
She told me about that check for ten thousand dollars.
She did, yes, And with the aid of the FBI laboratory,
we showed your sister that you didn't forge her name.
Mister Bryant was the guilty one. What did you say?
I said, mister Bryant was the one who forged that check.
How do you know that handwriting analysis proved it. You
told this to my sister. Yes, sir, she believe you, Yes,
so she did. She'd like to see you, she'd like
to try to make amends. I asked her to come
to the settlement as tonight. I don't want to see
mister Nortonton. It's Christmas Eve. This is no time to
feel that way.
Speaker 13: She's coming to the Settlement house.
Speaker 10: I I won't go.
Speaker 5: Back, and I look, mister Norton, you're not going to
let all of those kids down.
Speaker 10: I just told you that.
Speaker 5: On your coat and I hurry. We can get there
for the beginning of the party.
Speaker 13: Well, okay, started the snow just in time. Kids will
be it happy. You know what makes you seem more
like Christmas when it snows?
Speaker 5: Sure does?
Speaker 10: Eh? Here we are.
Speaker 5: You go ahead and this one.
Speaker 10: Thank you. M a little late.
Speaker 12: I suppose the party has already started. I think, so
I better hurry upstairs and get into my sandy close.
Speaker 5: Send mister William's office. He told me to bring it right.
Speaker 10: Oh fine, fine, you.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, and sir, I'll wait for you out here.
Speaker 10: Well, thank you, hello, ken you.
Speaker 8: Grace mister Taylor kind enough to invite me to the party.
Speaker 13: Yes, sir, I know, I.
Speaker 8: Know you haven't changed much. Kennon, m.
Speaker 10: Kenn Grace. I'm sorry, sh They're they're not done.
Speaker 8: Is I've falsely accused you were not.
Speaker 10: Let's spaghett it, Grace, It's all in the past.
Speaker 8: Can you ever forgive me?
Speaker 5: I already have.
Speaker 6: Oo.
Speaker 13: No, no, no, no, this is no time for crying.
Speaker 10: Race.
Speaker 13: He's like, yeah, let me try your eyes right.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 10: Help me on with this costume, will you.
Speaker 8: That's a Santa Class suit.
Speaker 13: This is my annual job around here.
Speaker 8: Wonderful.
Speaker 10: I got to really hurry too.
Speaker 13: Parties already started saying, will you hand me that Wigan beard?
Speaker 8: Surely here you are again.
Speaker 12: Yeah, the boys are starting to see I better.
Speaker 13: Be getting out there. Well, will you join me at
the party?
Speaker 10: Grace?
Speaker 8: Of course.
Speaker 5: The boys are waiting for you, mister Norton.
Speaker 6: I know, Harry.
Speaker 5: Christmas, sir, very Christmas, mister Taylor.
Speaker 4: Soon we will all begin a new year, a year
that can bring us happiness, prosperity, and a rich, full life.
But those goals cannot be attained without work, Without hard
work and long concentration. There are few bits of advice
that are applicable to everyone, but there can be no
doubt that for each of us life will be richer
and fuller if we follow one.
Speaker 5: Set rule, if we live every day during the.
Speaker 4: Coming year with the love and kindness in our hearts
that we have on Christmas Eve, For in that way
lies peace on a goodwill toward man.
Speaker 2: Now a quick message from our Equitable Society representative.
Speaker 3: On behalf of nearly eight thousand Equitable Society representatives, I
wish you all a merry Christmas. Next week, phone or
drop a note to your nearest Equitable man. He'll be
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Speaker 5: The author was Jerry D.
Speaker 2: Lewis your narrator was William Woodson, and Special Agent Taylor
was played by Stacy Harris. Others in the cast were
Victor Rodman, Jeffrey Silver, Peggy Weber, Rowland Winters, and Carlton Young.
This Is Your FBI is a Jerry Divine production. This
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Speaker 1: Next Welcome back. A very heartwarming episode. I also think
that the stated moral message of the episode was stated
very bluntly, but also effectively and briefly, and I think
that there is a timeliness and a timelessness about the
message about the impact of hate on families and nations.
I also thought that Special Agent Taylor, played by Stacy Harris,
does a really good job of bringing about the reconciliation
by getting those two to swallow their pride on Christmas,
Peggy Weber appeared, which is why mister Norton's sister sounded
a lot like Joe Friday's mother. Roland Winters, who appeared
in this was a recurring guest actor on This Is
Your FBI, but he is probably best known as the
last actor to start as Charlie Chan in the Charlie
Chan film series. If there was one thing that was
kind of weird to me, it was the ad campaign.
I know that at the Equador Bowl was the long
term sponsor of the series, but a what if the
Breadwinner dies works? She doesn't seem like a great offer
at Christmas time. Although it should be said that past generations,
particularly those that have been through a depression in a
world war, may have been a little less comfortable dealing
with the eventuality of death.
Speaker 10: Still, to me, for a.
Speaker 1: Holiday program, it seems like this is one of those
situations where you just do better to send best holiday
wishes and save your sales pitch for next week. All right, well,
listener comments and fadeback now, and we start with an
email from Nicholas regarding our recent armcore of Horstone of
the Desk Wall, and Nicholas writes.
Speaker 10: High Adam.
Speaker 1: In your rebroadcast of Horstones The Unheated Warning Murder Case,
one character accuses another character of acting like they're in
a ten twenty thirty melodrama. The phrase immediately aroused my curiosity,
so I looked it up. Turns out it refers to
the ticket price of this kind of theater where you
could go see a low quality melodramatic movie or stage
play in the early twentieth century, one with mustache twirling
villains in the like. It costs ten twenty or thirty cents.
Just thought your listeners might like to know. Well, thanks
so much. I appreciate the comment, Nicholas, and I do
know that there are some listeners who would like to
know it, and other listeners who would apply the ten
twenty thirty label to episodes of the Hummertz mystery programs.
I don't generally read comments on older episodes, but I
found this one somewhat encouraging. It's from Mechanics sixty six
' eight two. Write it on YouTube, Adam. I caught
the encore of this episode on Audible episode four four
three six eight. Thanks for that. I've never heard of
it before, and it got me to watch the first
four movies, which I really enjoyed. Good comedy and good mystery.
Polin Lloy had real chemistry. Well looking for this on
YouTube so I could leave this comment. I see you
played other thin Man episodes during earlier seasons and am
looking forward to checking them out. Keep up the good work.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you.
Speaker 1: So much, and I really do hope that when we
share radio adaptations of movies it does get people interested
to go and check out the movies as well, because
there are some really interesting ones and it's fun to
be able to compare the movie and the radio versions.
Then we have a few comments from off the listener survey.
A listener writing from Merritt Island, Florida, rites, I enjoy
letting my mom participate in defining the story rather than
having the TV do it. And then Dave writes, Adam,
congratulations on the anniversary. The podcast has introduced me to
some incredibly interesting programs I never knew about, such as
Rocky Jordan, well also giving me a source to listen
to Johnny Dollar and other favorites. I've appreciated your guest
appearances on Atlantic City Radio with me. Wishing you a
wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year. Well, thank
you so much, Dave, and it was definitely fun to
appear there and then have a comment from Esperanzia, who writes,
I love Lieutenant Dana from the Man from Homicide. We
need officers like that today maybe crime would discrease. I
love all the mystery, detective and crime shows. Well, thank
you so much, appreciate the comment, Esperanza. Now it's time
to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
want to go ahead and think Carrie. Carrey has been
one of our Patreon supporters since November twenty eighteen, currently
supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven
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We will be back in three weeks with Matthew Slade
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my beatwear.
Speaker 5: I'm suddenly proud of the hobby. Oh, mister Hockley, exactly,
how deserning of you, but you'd better explain it to
me anyway.
Speaker 6: It gives me profound pleasure. This is an exquisite game
I have created, mister Clover. You are now a part
of it. I have made these certain people want desperately
to kill me. I shall now make you want to
stop them from killing me.
Speaker 5: And what do you do during all this?
Speaker 6: Nothing? Precisely nothing. I have set marvelous passions in motion.
It's like a play, and I am dying to know
what happens at the final curtain. Does it interest you, policemen?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 6: I shall make it more interesting. A proposal, my policeman.
If I am not murdered and lying in the blood
of my death at the end of this week, say
I shall pay off with fifty thousand dollars to your
favorite charity. Will you save my life, mister Clover?
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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