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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're

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going to bring you this week's episode of The Saint.

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But first I do want to encourage you. If you're

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to Patreon dot Great Detectives n Now, I'm sure that

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when I announced we were going to play The Saint

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again that many were delighted with the idea of hearing

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more of Vincent Price, and indeed we will. But The

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Saint did not begin with Vincent Price in the title role.

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The first Saint radio series was actually broadcast over Radio

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Athlone in Ireland in nineteen forty and then there would

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be two separate Saint radio series, one that aired from

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January through March and starred Edgar Barrier, and then a

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second one that aired during the summer and starred Brian Hearn.

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None of those episodes are in existence. What we do

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have in existence is the audition for the Saint radio series.

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Now there is some conflict as to the date, with

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some placing the audition in nineteen forty four and some

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placing it in nineteen forty. I leaned towards nineteen forty

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four because it aligns a bit more with the overall chronology,

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although it's certainly possible I suppose that an audition was

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recorded in nineteen forty and they just put it aside

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for a few years. In this particular episode, you're going

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to hear Dennis Green as the Saint.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Dennis Green was a British born actor who over radio

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did a lot of British character roles. He was in

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quite a few episodes of the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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He also appeared in some British located Lux Radio Theater episodes.

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As far as I can tell, this is the only

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radio production he ever stored in. So let's go ahead

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and take a lesson to this program, likely from nineteen

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forty four. Here is The Saint and the Miracle tea party.

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Speaker 3: Listen for the Saint. The Saint, the hero of one

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hundred thrilling yards of breathless adventure and mystery. The Robinhood

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of modern crime the twentieth century is gayest buccaneer, already

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immortalized in twenty five best selling books, half a dozen

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popular motion pictures, and countless magazine stories. The Saint by

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Leslie charteris brought to you now in a new medium,

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the radio, and the author, mister Leslie Charters himself will

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appear on this program personally introducing his famous character.

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Speaker 4: Have you read the latest?

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Speaker 3: Saint is revolutionized the sat peak of adventure writing. Saint

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is one friends at every corner of the globe. The

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Saint who made such men as P. G.

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Speaker 4: Wodehouse. Right to the.

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Speaker 5: Author, I hope you're going to write dozens more Saints stories.

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Speaker 4: They're simply caking.

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Speaker 3: Stories of thrilling adventure that made naturalist William Beebe say,

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if I.

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Speaker 6: Were marooned at the bottom of the sea in my bethisphere,

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I choose the Saint stories for company.

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Speaker 3: And humorist Will Cuppy christened the Saint the Prince of Adventurers.

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The Saint's exploits have been translated into every European language.

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Critics have placed him in the tradition of Sherlock, Holmes

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and Raffles, But actually he's like neither. He is unique,

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and so I bring you the only man who can

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do him justice, the author who first brought him to life. Oh,

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mister charteris. But wait before or Leslie Charter speaks, let

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me tell you that he isn't the Gray West good

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author you may have pictured. In spite of all the

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exciting things he's done, He's still only thirty three, and

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yet he knows what he's writing about. For fourteen years,

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he's been traveling and adventuring all over the world, and

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more than half the Saint's exploits are founded on things

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he has seen himself. But meet mister Leslie Charters for yourself,

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good evening, Mitter charteris.

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Speaker 4: Tell us how you see the Saint's character? Well, that

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is rather a tall order.

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Speaker 7: Let's say that he has a sense of humor. He

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never takes anything too seriously, not even himself. Of course,

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he has his own idealistic motives for pertinently on goodly

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in the snoot. But he really thinks it's quite a

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lot of fun too.

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Speaker 4: And you let the public share the fun with him.

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I hope they do.

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Speaker 7: After all, the world is full of villains who are

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to be jumped on, and I suppose most people would

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really like to take a share in the jumping, but

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since most of them aren't quite so quick on the

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doors they'd like to be, they don't mind letting the

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Saint do it for them.

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Speaker 3: I know just what you mean. I've often felt that

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way myself. So which of these adventures are you bringing

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us tonight?

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Speaker 4: The Miracle Tea Party? The Miracle Tea Party?

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Speaker 7: Yes it sounds screwy, doesn't it, but it explains itself

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as we go along.

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Speaker 4: Well, who else is in it? Beside the Saint? There's

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Patricia Home, of course, she's the Saint's beautiful companion in crime.

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Speaker 7: You could put it that way, but anyway, she's been

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in most of the Saint's adventures.

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Speaker 2: Then there's fun Ach.

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Speaker 3: Oh you mean Inspector John Henry for an act of

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the Detective Bureau. Yes, he's quite an old favorite in

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the Saints series, isn't he. The Saints certainly has given

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him a lot of gray hairs, though.

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Speaker 7: They have had a few battles, but they really think

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quite a lot of each other.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 7: On this occasion, Phonac's indigestion was what really started the

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whole thing.

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Speaker 4: Is indigestion? Yes, or he was in all kinds of trouble.

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Speaker 7: The New York Police Commissioner was running him rag about

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some espionage business, and of course the paints and his

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tummy weren't helping him up. Pet I suppose the story

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really began when the Commissioner was sitting in his office

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waiting for Inspector John Henry Fernach to.

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Speaker 4: Come up on the carpet.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Inspector Fernach is outside, Commissioner.

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Speaker 4: Him in.

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Speaker 2: You sent for me, Commissioner.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm still waiting for your report on that espionage

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business out at the airplane factory.

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Speaker 2: And my men are doing their best, and you better

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get some men can do better.

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Speaker 6: And I promised the FBI months ago we cracked this case.

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What you're laying down on the job for Nick and

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when action I wanted fast, yes, sir. And another thing,

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why haven't you rounded up this man, Simon Templar Fellow

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they called the Saint.

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Speaker 2: You can't arrest a man without evidence, Commissioner, and get some.

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Speaker 6: Everybody knows the man's a crook, one of the most

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notorious crooks in the country.

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Speaker 2: We've never been able to prove it. Commissioner.

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Speaker 6: In a minute, you'll be telling me you've fallen for

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this stuff about him being the modern Robin Hood.

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Speaker 2: The things he does generally seem to turn out all right.

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He's even helped me a lot of time.

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Speaker 6: Oh, fernack, you must be getting soft in the head.

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What's the matter with you? Are you sick or something?

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Speaker 2: When as a matter of affects her?

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Speaker 8: I am, I'm suffering from indigestion.

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Speaker 6: Indigestion. Why don't you get something for it? Why don't

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you get some miracle tea?

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Speaker 2: Is that the stuff they advertise in the radio?

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Speaker 6: Yes, why don't you buy some?

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Speaker 2: I win, sir, I'd just stop in at the drug

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store on my way home. Yes, sir, good eating. What

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can I do for you? And give me some.

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Speaker 4: Give me a package of miracle tea.

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Speaker 2: One package of miracle tea, yes, sir. Hey you are, sir,

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And isn't this something else?

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Speaker 8: What do you mean something else? What are you looking

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at me like that for? Come on, give me that

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stuff and take your money.

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Speaker 2: Hey, hey, wait, hey, mister, come back here. I made

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a mistake.

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Speaker 4: Oh he's gone.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh, mister Osmond, mister Osbud quick.

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Speaker 5: What's the trouble out there?

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Speaker 2: What terrible mistakes? A customer came in and I made

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a terrible mistake.

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Speaker 9: Oh well, goes on down the street. Hey, hey, you stop?

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Speaker 4: Oh well, well, well, if it isn't my old friend

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John Henry Thannak.

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Speaker 2: The saint, what did you do that for?

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Speaker 4: I'm ashamed of you, Henry, rolling in the gutter at

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your age.

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Speaker 2: Well you hit me. I'm walking down the street a

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lot and you.

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Speaker 4: Hit me, So don't be an ass, Henry. I was

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just passing by when I saw a bloke in the

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distance waking you over the beam with a piece of

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lead pipe. I ran after it and he got away. Yes,

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I thought of asking him to come and have a

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drink on it, but he ran too fast. Was he

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a friend of yours?

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Speaker 2: I don't know what it's all about.

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Speaker 8: I just came out of that drug store back there,

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and I heard footsteps behind me, and I, oh, lord

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my head.

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Speaker 4: You better go home, Henry, and rest that dented dome. Taxi,

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Oh taxi, Oh, be careful of him driver. He's very fragile. Sorry,

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I can't go with you, Henry, but I'm late already.

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I've got a date with someone much more beautiful than you.

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Speaker 8: I suppose I ought to thank you, but I'm still

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not sure that you didn't suck me. Simon Templer fourteen

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forty four, Prospect Place.

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Speaker 4: So long, Henry, call me anytime you want a bodyguard.

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Speaker 9: Hey, wait, Henry, you dropped your package.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, I'll just have to keep this little package

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with me until the morning.

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Speaker 10: Hello, Simon, you're late.

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Speaker 4: I ran into a little excitement on the way, Darling.

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Speaker 10: What's in the box you're carrying?

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Speaker 11: Orchids?

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Speaker 4: Pat give me back that box. It's not mine.

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Speaker 10: Tea a package of tea, miracle tea for indigestion. Indigestion,

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ha ha, so your sins are catching.

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Speaker 4: Up with you yet. Now don't open it. It belongs

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to where.

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Speaker 11: Did you get all this money?

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Speaker 4: What money?

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Speaker 10: The money that's in this package of tea. It's full

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of thousand dollar bills.

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Speaker 4: A look one, two, three, four, five, five thousand dollars.

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Miracle tea. What an excellent name for.

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Speaker 10: It, Simon, where do you get this tea?

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Speaker 4: Believe it or not? Inspector Fernack dropped it and I

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picked it up.

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Speaker 10: Inspector Fernie.

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Speaker 4: A few moments ago I found him being beaten up

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by some plug Ugly I rescued the poor old buzzard

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and poured him into a taxi. Then I found this

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package lying on the sidewalk.

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Speaker 10: This money, Simon, Do you think it's real?

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Speaker 4: No doubt of it.

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Speaker 10: Maybe you've bred poor old Fernack's life.

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Speaker 4: Savings when he has a bank account, Darling. Police inspectors

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don't carry the worldly wealth around in packets of.

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Speaker 10: Tea graft Simon.

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Speaker 4: Maybe he's taking grad John Henry. No, he's so honest

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it runs out of his ears. Well, let's see. John

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Henry had a pain in his tumb tumb and stopped

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into Osbitt's drug store on the way home. My hunch

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is that he was handed this packet by mistake. My

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further hunch is that right now there must be considerable

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agitation going on in mister Osbert's drug store.

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Speaker 2: Mister, please, sir, how was I don't know it was

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a man?

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Speaker 4: I'm over here, you fool.

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Speaker 12: But how was I to know it was Inspector Ferneck

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at the police department.

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Speaker 2: He came in so quietly, he lowered his voice, just

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like one of our own men.

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Speaker 5: I said, come here.

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Speaker 2: I ran after him. I almost had the package back,

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so when this other fellow came along and intent fool, Please, mister.

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Speaker 12: Rosbity, It was a mistake. This other fellow was twice

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my size, and it killed me.

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Speaker 5: That my friend might have saved me the trouble.

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Speaker 2: Come here, no, no, please.

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Speaker 11: No, darling, I wish you'd explain.

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Speaker 10: Where are we going.

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Speaker 4: Osbit's drug store in search of further miracles?

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Speaker 11: There's the drug store right over there.

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Speaker 4: Come in with me, darling. What fun.

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Speaker 2: A good eating? Sir? What can I do for you?

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Speaker 4: Is mister Osbit around? Uh?

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Speaker 2: What's it about?

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Speaker 4: What's about this package of tea? I'd I'd like to

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return it. A friend of mine bought it, but decided

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he wouldn't risk taking it, So I said, Fernac, O

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power my waist, a perfectly good half dollar. I'll take

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it back and change it for you.

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Speaker 2: Did you say your friend's name was Fernack?

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Speaker 4: Yes, you probably know him, great detective and all that

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sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure we can change this package for you.

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Speaker 12: Say if now, If you wait right here, sir, I'll

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get mister rosb Simon.

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Speaker 10: His eyes popped out of his head when you mentioned.

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Speaker 4: It worked, my sweet Do you notice how he grabbed

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the package and scuttle up those backstairs.

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Speaker 11: Osbert must be back there you stay here.

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Speaker 4: Darling in the store. Well, I see what goes on.

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Speaker 5: Oh, mister Robin, what are you bursting in for? Your

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job is down behind the store.

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Speaker 2: It's Furnack's packager. A man just brought it in the

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store's to exchange.

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Speaker 5: My next package.

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Speaker 6: Give it to me.

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Speaker 2: Ah, you're crazy.

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Speaker 5: There's no money in here, but he said, well the polace.

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Speaker 2: Listen. Who's there?

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Speaker 4: Hello? Little people? Whope, I'm not interrupting. Oh, don't bother

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searching that box, mister Osbit. I removed the Dora May

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and sealed it up again. Who are you?

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Speaker 2: I know who he is. I've heard about that whissom

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the Saint.

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Speaker 5: That's who he is, the Saint.

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Speaker 4: So you see, I want to learn about your business,

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comrade Osbit. I don't know what your racket is yet.

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Obviously it's something big. If you can give away five

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grand with a four bit packet of tea.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, you do. Take your hand away from that pocket, Hosbit,

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miss me, Oh boy, very bad manners. But if you

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want to play rough.

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Speaker 2: Next, please let me alone. I didn't do either.

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Speaker 10: Simon, Simon, are you all right?

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Speaker 4: All right? I'm having a beautiful time hospital pull the

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gun so I had to put them both to sleep.

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Come on downing, let's go downstairs again and look after.

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Speaker 2: The shop.

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Speaker 13: That may have ten cents worth of cough drops, please

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and hurry it up.

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Speaker 4: Ten cents worth, yes, sir, here you are here here,

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not all that, only ten cents worth, I say, special

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bargain price today, sir, three pounds for a dime.

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Speaker 2: I like some razor blades.

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Speaker 4: Now, why don't you try this excellent electric raiser, But

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I don't want an electric razer exactly the same price

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as the blades. We are selling electric raisers for a

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dime today, So here you are, and I.

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Speaker 2: Don't want an electric razer. I'll have a dollar bottle of.

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Speaker 4: Perry perfume here you are, miss it's reduced to a

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quarter today, and please accept these bath salts.

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Speaker 11: Really, it's very kind of you don't mention it.

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Speaker 4: It's mister Osbert's birthday today and he's in the mood.

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Speaker 10: Simon, you're giving the whole store away. It may be

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loads of fun, darling, but where is it getting it?

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Speaker 4: Verify yet? But I've really been hanging around here in

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the hopes at some minute no.

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Speaker 2: Another customer.

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Speaker 10: What a specimen?

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Speaker 4: I wonder how much he had charged to haunt her

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house out of the way, darling, Yes, sir, what will

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it be? Raizor blades, shaving cream, hot water bottle?

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen you before.

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Speaker 4: Then you should admire the view.

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Speaker 2: Where's that?

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Speaker 4: USSI?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Oh, dear old oss is lying down for a while.

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Got a headache or something. See have you tried our

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passion flower lipstick?

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Speaker 2: Cut that carmedy?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, give bar to this prescription and find that when

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my my medicine will be ready.

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Speaker 4: Come back at six o'clock this evening. I think you're

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your medicine all they're ready for you. Then shakes o' clock. Okay,

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give you this piece of paper. He call it a prescription.

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Speaker 10: After all, this is a drug store.

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Speaker 4: Look at it, Patty. See a doctor writ out of

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prescription like that. It's a drawing floor plan of a building.

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Speaker 10: Now I suppose we have to go back to Burglary.

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Speaker 4: No, my pet, I think we run into something bigger

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than Burglars.

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Speaker 11: What, Simon, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I think I'll go upstairs again and investigate how sleeping

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beauty is. Come on, Patricia, roll.

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Speaker 2: Over, USSI Let's see what you've got in your pockets.

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Speaker 4: Ah, here's a wallet.

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Speaker 10: What's inside? Simon?

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Speaker 4: Oh, very interesting. Mister Osbitt has a driving license and

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a credit card, both made out in the name of

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Baron and NESQ five seventy seven Park Avenue. I wonder

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if Ossi has been leading a double life. Anything interesting

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in the desk?

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Speaker 10: We look like a lot of radio commercials about miracle tea.

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Speaker 4: It's him. Well, this doesn't look very sinister. Let's take

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him along anyway.

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Speaker 15: Your babies are waking up, Simon, had enough exercise for today.

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Speaker 4: Come on, darling, let's go. I think we've earned a drink.

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Speaker 15: Make mine a miracle tea in the soda, Simon, we've

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had dinner. Why aren't we doing something about Baron and

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ESCU instead of sitting at home listening to the radio.

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Speaker 4: Well, aren't you satisfied, darling? We are hot on the trailer.

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One of the most ingenious rackets I've ever heard of.

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Money flows like water, plans are handed over a drugstore counter,

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and packets of tea gets spiked with a thousand dollar bills.

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Speaker 10: What you really mean is that this thing is still

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got to buffalo.

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Speaker 4: On the contrary, My deductive genius is just getting into

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high gear. You know, I'm convinced that there's some connection

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between these Miracle Tea broadcasts and the racket we're onto.

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That's why I've been studying all these radio commercials you

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found in Osbert's office, just been waiting for the program

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to come on the air. And I think it's due

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right now.

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Speaker 13: Good evening, everybody. Huh, why not try Miracle Tea, the

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amazing health beverage which has brought relief to so many sufferers.

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Let me read you a few testimonials. Missus GK of

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Brooklyn rights for years.

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Speaker 15: I don't see what this radio program has to do

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with OSBA's drugstore and the money and the plans.

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Speaker 4: Don't you listen?

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Speaker 2: And mister J. B.

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Speaker 13: Philadelphia writes, Miracle Ta has indeed performed miracles for me.

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Miss LG.

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Speaker 4: Of Trenton writes, Pat, I was right. I got it.

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The code signal. It's one of the neatest I ever

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came across.

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Speaker 10: Code signal.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's so gorgeously simple. I almost missed it. The

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one thing I couldn't figure out was how the agents

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of this ring and you went to visit Ospits drug store. Well,

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this is how it's done. The initials of the operative

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of the big Boss wants to get in touch with her,

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given over the radio. Through the testimony, exactly, no detective

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on earth could trace the connection between a radio broadcast

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and the particular person who listens to it.

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Speaker 2: Years.

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Speaker 10: After all, anybody can go into a drug store and

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buy a patent medicine without attracting attention.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and then the package contains the wages of work

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well done, the one Fernach got hold of, or instructions

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for another job.

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Speaker 10: Darling, You're wonderful, don't you ever amaze yourself constantly?

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Speaker 4: Give me the phone. I'm going to organize a little

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tea party of my own.

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Speaker 2: Inspector Fernack speaking Hello.

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Speaker 4: John, Henry, And how is the little tom tum this evening?

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Speaker 2: Simon?

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Speaker 8: Haven't you anything better than do than they call me

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up at this time a night and make funny remarks?

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Speaker 4: Seriously, Henry, if you're really interested in cleaning up this

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espionage business, just rush one of your squads to Osbit's

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drug store, a place where you bought your miracle tea.

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Speaker 2: Hey, are you kidding me so?

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Speaker 4: Once? I'm not, Henry, unless I'm very much mistaken. A

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few other guys are going to be their shopping for

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Miracle Tea tonight. You'd better pick up everybody who buys

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it and hold him for questioning. If I thought that

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you never have. Don't spoil your record, Henry. Just do

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as I say and I'll get in touch with you later.

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I may have the big shot for you then.

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Speaker 11: But who is the big shot of this ring?

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Speaker 4: And I'm not certain, but I'll bet though that Baron

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and Esco could tell us something. I think. Just run

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over and ask him what was the address? Five seventy

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seven Park Avenue.

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Speaker 10: If you're not back in an hour, I'll meet you

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there with an ambulance.

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Speaker 2: I'm very sorry, so, but the Baron is not at home?

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Speaker 4: No, no, who's playing that type adder down the hall?

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, so but the baron is not at home?

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Speaker 4: Or you repeat yourself, Clarence, Oh sorry, I had to

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cut you, but you really were getting monotonous. Now to

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find the dear Baron.

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Speaker 5: Hello station deal PK give me mister Vernon, the announcer

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of the Military Tea program. Please, Hello Vernon, you're at

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the testimonials for the ten o'clock broadcast.

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Speaker 4: Are you ready?

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Speaker 5: Missus b C of Los Angeles. Since drinking your tea,

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I have become hold on.

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Speaker 4: Hold on a moment, Vernon, Good evening, Baron. Put your

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hand over that mouthpiece.

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Speaker 2: What are you doing here?

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Speaker 4: Don't move to feel this gun in your back. Baron

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talks faster than you can. I'll get back on that

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phone and repeat exactly what I tell you.

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Speaker 5: Hello, Hello, Vernon, tell him.

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Speaker 4: Tell him you're changing the copy completely.

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Speaker 5: Vernon, I'm I'm changing the copy completely.

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Speaker 4: Tell him to make it read like this. There are

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many testimonials in our files and they all praise Miracle Tea.

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Speaker 5: Hello, make the ten o'clock commercial read. There are many

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testimonials in our files.

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Speaker 4: And they all praise medical t Stop reaching for that desk,

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draw Baron, It makes me nervous. Now say all of

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the everybody, why not buy Miracle tea tonight?

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Speaker 5: Go and say it, eh, all of you everybody, why

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not buy Miracle tea tonight?

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Speaker 16: No?

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Speaker 4: Tell him that's all. H that's all Vernon, All right,

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now you can turn around.

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Speaker 5: What is the meaning of this?

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Speaker 4: I should say about fifteen years for you, Baron? Or

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would you prefer me to call you osbit osbitten? I

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recognized your voice the instant I heard it, in spite

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of your false whiskers. Besides, I took the liberty of

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looking through your wallet while you were taking a siestra

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in the shop. Very smart, aunt you, mister Templar, I

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get along. You've been running one of the most efficient

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espionage rackets in the country, haven't you. Are you crazy

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crazy enough to recognize plans of an airplane factory disguised

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as a prescription? Well, what are you going to do

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about Well, I'm going to leave that to Inspector Furnac

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his maneral ready at your drug store. They've probably picked

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up Miss GK, Mister l G, and missus b C already,

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And in a few minutes, when your ten o'clock program

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goes on the air, there'll be a whole flock of

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the speptics rolling in to join the tea party.

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Speaker 5: I have an uncanny memory for people who interfere with me,

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Simon Templer, Well, why do.

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Speaker 4: You're thinking it over in Alcatraz? Don't forget to tell

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the other boys to look out for me. Tell them

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about the Saint.

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Speaker 3: Well that certainly had me on the edge of my chair,

476
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mister Charters, but it seems that Simon did all the

477
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work and Inspector Furnak got all the credit.

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Speaker 7: You know, in a business like the Saints, you can't

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advertise too much. Besides, he doesn't own a private jail.

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Speaker 4: No, of course. Well, now, what are you going to

481
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tell us about next week? Well, there was a man

482
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who was snatching loot out of sunken ships. Sounds interesting.

483
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I call that story Saint. Overboard, there was a guy

484
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named Vogel.

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Speaker 7: Who was pretending to finance a certain Professor Yule, the

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inventor of an extra deep sea diving suit. Remember that

487
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exciting moment when Simon was.

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Speaker 4: On Vogel's yacht and Professor Yule was going down to

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make a sense.

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Speaker 13: Five hundred and seventy five feet splendid professor, can you

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hear me down there?

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Speaker 12: Yes, mister Vogel, I'm on the bottom. Everything is working splendidly.

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Give me another twenty feet of cable. I'm going to

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try to walk a bit. Something's gone wrong with the

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oxygen supply, Twick, bring me up.

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Speaker 4: The winch is jammed. Hello, Hello down there, gofess.

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Speaker 2: So what can we do?

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Speaker 11: Saint?

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Speaker 4: Get away from that winch? Folk or this gun might

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go off now watch me start it. Look not behind you.

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Speaker 3: I'm afraid we'll have to wait until next week to

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hear this new story, entitled Saint Overboard, another thrilling adventure

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in This program by Leslie charteris a program in which

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the author himself, each week sets the scene for a

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new story of the Saint. The part of the Saint

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is played by the noted English actor of stage, screen

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and radio, Dennis Green. And so until next week, listen

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What a Saint.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back? An amusing piece. Overall, I think that it's

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a fun episode. It maybe a little too comedic of

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This episode features Patricia Holme, who if you listen to

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the Vincent Price series or if you watch the television

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program with Roger Moore, you won't find her in there,

514
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but she was Simon Templar's love interest and confidant through

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the early years of the character. She began to fade

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away from the series during the forties, with her last

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featuring in a short story in nineteen forty eight. She

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is not included in any of the Vincent Price episodes

519
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or Tom Conway, who would succeed Price, but we do

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get to hear her here and Press clippings from the

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time show that the character was featured at least in

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the summer nineteen forty five series with Louise Arthur in

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that role. Now we don't have any full Saint episodes, however,

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thanks to the Mystery Playhouse and their of explaining what

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they're going to play next for American servicemen on that program.

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We do have a clip from the Edgar Barrier run

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on the Saint, and we'll turn it over to Peter

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Laurie to introduce that segment.

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Speaker 17: Now for our next production, it's doing much less exciting. Oh,

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only seventeen shots, a lot of crooked outsmarting together for

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the paltry two hundred thousand dollars. Two murderers and Sermon

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00:30:34,559 --> 00:30:38,640
Temper better known as the Saint. Allow me to the

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green room for the preview. All right, this move content, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, horror.

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Speaker 4: You really should have told me sooner.

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Speaker 5: So do what A police headquarters have been moved to

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a long island.

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Speaker 4: Mentioned like this.

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Speaker 5: It's quite a shock to a hardway in text player

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like me.

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Speaker 4: You better start getting his shots.

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00:31:05,319 --> 00:31:07,759
Speaker 18: Oh, mister Nelson looks like he's expecting.

543
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Speaker 19: Me, So I wish you wouldn't see popping over that rock, though, Hollis,

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if he is tickled this way, sir, I cozy little dumb,

545
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isn't it, Hollis? My name is not Horace, he judge striker,

546
00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:32,960
mister Nason. In fact, sir, here you might as well

547
00:31:33,079 --> 00:31:36,839
out the door, Evan, I shut down with the temper.

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Speaker 2: So you're the painous gentleman known as the paint are you?

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Speaker 18: Sometimes My friends called that, mister Temple. We have taste

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here with a serious matter, a very serious matter.

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Speaker 5: So it seemed so serious, in fact, that I have

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been obliged to.

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Speaker 2: Adopt rather extraordinary measures, you.

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Speaker 18: Like sending around the phony pick to pick me up for.

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Speaker 2: You knew he was a phony, My dear that had

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a twin.

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Speaker 14: He didn't really think that others over there could successfully

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impersonate an officer.

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Speaker 2: Of the law, did you?

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Speaker 10: Why?

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Speaker 4: I shall we get down the business very well?

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Speaker 20: You have in your profession a certain diary containing statements

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and the suggestions which I hardly.

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Speaker 18: Need say are for the unproved.

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Speaker 14: That is the statement that, when you held a fine

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job in Washington, dreamed up the high tour oil swindle

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and got away with it.

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Speaker 4: No fabrication from the beginning to end, and that you

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and your.

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Speaker 14: Associates now control about ninety percent of the black market gasoline.

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Speaker 4: In the country.

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Speaker 2: Lives life, every one.

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Speaker 20: Of them at that's why thank you for having the

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fact remains that their publication might seriously damage the character

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and the financial spending of certain resputable members of the.

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Speaker 4: Community, especially including you.

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Speaker 20: I it is for that reason, and that reason alone,

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that I am prepared to ascertain what value you placed

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on this vodum.

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Speaker 18: What's the offer?

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Speaker 2: Shall we say?

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Speaker 4: Tenth how dollars?

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Speaker 20: May I ask you what you find so funny about

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ten thousand dollars or nothing?

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Speaker 4: Nothing on the ordinary Cycum center.

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Speaker 18: If you must admit that in this state it is

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a little ridiculous and there, what would you suggest? Two

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hundred thousand dollars? That splay that? Did you say you

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00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,279
heard me appen? Two hundred thousand dollars?

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Speaker 5: You're insane, though I'm not.

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Speaker 14: I'll tell you what I'm going to do, Jack, I'm

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going to set up a foundation. If I'm on Templar

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Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Wounded war set or you

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will have a capital of one million dollars. Your share

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will be exactly one fifth.

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Speaker 18: Do I make myself here.

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Speaker 5: Why haven't you changed your tune before you ever get

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out of this house.

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Speaker 4: Don't try to get your gun, Hollist.

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Speaker 18: I always carry a fair and I'm an excellent stock essionally,

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if you remember that, I've always had something at that tea.

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Now take your gun out very slowly by the muzzle problem.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: So you thought me right, and now you'll be good

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enough to unlock the door. Open it. You'll hear from

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me again, like said another.

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Speaker 18: In fact, I should expect to have your check by

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Saturday morning. Nice jud welcome back.

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Speaker 1: This particular episode I recognize because I've read the plot

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and I've seen some TV episodes. This was the Simon

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Templar Foundation, which was the very first episode of the

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Edgar Barrier Saint series that aired on January sixth, nineteen

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00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,639
forty five. And I think if you needed a reason

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00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,519
for why the pilot failed, I think it may come

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down to the oldest show biz EA's explanation, which is

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that they he decided to go another direction. Edgar Barrier,

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even from this brief clip, played the Saint a lot harder,

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and I think that may have been what American radio

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executives thought audiences were looking for, and of course Barrier

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was more of a major, established radio talent, so that

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probably helped them decide to go with Barrier. In addition,

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some people have described Charters as sounding a bit uncomfortable

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during the interview segment, and I won't say he was

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particularly polished, and I can't imagine he was too disappointed.

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They decided to do a version of the show where

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he isn't happening to be on radio every week, although

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according to one news article, Charteris wrote all the scripts

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for the summer NINETEAM forty five radio programs, which, as

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I said, are lost.

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Speaker 6: Well, now we.

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Speaker 1: Turn to listener comments and feedback with a comment regarding

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danger with Granger, and this one comes from Spotify Mechanic

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sixty six rights. I was immediately suspicious of Paula when

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she didn't show the slightest bit of emotion about her

635
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:30,199
dead cat. Most people would be distraught. Well, I appreciate

636
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,559
the comment, and I think that it's a fair point.

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In real life, I think that would definitely be a

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reason to be suspicious. Although I've seen several mystery movies

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and heard a few mystery radio programs where the death

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00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,159
of the cat is just treated as a plot point,

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even if the owner is in no way complicit in

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the crime, because in the grand scheme of things, it's

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considered not a big deal as there's an actual murderer

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and people's life at risk, even perhaps the owner of

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the cat. But I also think what is often called

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pet culture has really changed in the last few decades,

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and entertainment marks that in the way that there are

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certain ideas, in certain ways that pets are treated, not

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crueltly and not assumed to be cruel that often get

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our hackles up. And this is reflective of a cultural

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shift where I think pets have become more valued and

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have a higher status in society. And I think our

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relationship to pets can also be colored by our disconnection

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from each other, and so many human ties that were

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so key in ages past have been so fraid that

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we appreciate animals even more for being trustworthy, loving creatures

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in a world where sometimes it seems like our fellow

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human beings are apathetic at best and hostile at worse.

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I didn't mean to go quite that philosophical, but I did,

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and not deleting it. Okay, well, let's go ahead and

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thank ur Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Charlie,

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Patreon supporter since July twenty twenty, currently supporting the podcast

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at the Shawmas level of four dollars or more per month.

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Thanks so much for your support, Charlie, and now we'll

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do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please

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follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure

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to rate and review the podcast where you download it from.

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We'll be back next Monday with another episode of the same.

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But join us back here tomorrow for the big story Where.

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Speaker 16: That's right, mister housman, my name's Jamie Goodwin. But what's

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the difference. Ain't nobody gonna believe me? Ain't nobody care?

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Speaker 4: But what proof do you have proof?

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Speaker 2: What's that proof? I say?

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Speaker 11: Who I am?

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Speaker 16: I got papers from the Merchant Marine jury say that's

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off a tenny forty years hard labor.

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Speaker 2: That's your proof?

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Speaker 5: And you're not off at tenny. You're Jamie Goodwin.

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Speaker 4: Oh mister you're gone away?

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Speaker 16: Who cares if a backwards boy like me live or die?

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Speaker 2: Going away and leave me.

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Speaker 1: Be I If you'll be with us then in the meantime,

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send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot it,

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This is your host, Adam Grahant.

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Speaker 2: I'm shut and all