Tag: World War 2

Counterspy: Cherchez La Femme (A0072)

Today’s Adventure:

David Harding looks into the suicide of a prominent wealthy man tied to the war effort.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 13, 1945

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Mandel Kramer as Peters

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Counterspy: The Case of the Illegal Radio Station (A0070)

Today’s Adventure:

A military officer is murdered on a train. David Harding suspects enemy involvement, and enlists the help of refugees to track down a suspected foreign agent.

Original Radio Broadcast: March 1, 1943

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding

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Counterspy: Industrial Spy Ring (A0068)

Today’s Adventure:

A Nazi agent murders his wife and sets David Harding on the trail of an espionage ring.

Original Radio Broadcast: December 14, 1942

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding

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Counterspy: The Case of the Gasoline Barge (A0066)

Today’s Adventure:

David Harding suspects the Axis is behind a ring making counterfeit gas coupons.

Original Radio Broadcast: November 2, 1945

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding

Popular Science article on the government censoring weather reports.

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Counterspy: The Case of the Loganberry Point Spy (A0064)

Today’s Adventure: A widow in a small town calls David Harding claiming to have caught a German spy.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 14, 1942

Originating in New York

Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Craig McDonnell

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Lux Radio Theater: Cloak and Dagger (A0058)

Today’s Adventure:

A scientist joins the OSS in 1944 to find out about the progress of the German atomic program and to make contact with a Hungarian scientist being forced to work with them.

Original Radio Broadcast: May 3, 1948

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Ronald Reagan as Alvah Jesper; Jeff Chandler; Herb Butterfield; William Johnstone; Norman Field; Regina Wallace; Robert Griffin; Marjorie Haskelle; Ben Wright; June Whitley; Jay Novello; Jack Petruzzi; Edward Marr; Charles La Torre

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Screen Guild Theater: 13 Rue Madeline (A0056)

 

Today’s Adventure:

There’s a German spy in the latest OSS training class. Rather than capturing him, OSS leadership decides to use him to mislead the Germans about the planned second front.

Original Radio Broadcast: November 25, 1948

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Humphrey Bogart; Leon Ames; John Beal; William Lundigan; Frances Robinson,

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Lux Radio Theater: O.S.S. (A0054)

Today’s Adventure:

A team of OSS agents go undercover in occupied France during World War II to enact a campaign of sabotage.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 18, 1946

Starring: Alan Ladd; Veronica Lake; Gale Gordon; Joseph Kearns; Richard Benedict; Robert Coute; Rolfe Sedan; Truda Marson;  Charles Seel; Ed Emerson; George Neise; George Sorel; Henry Roland; Howard Jeffrey; Jay Novello; Noreen Gammill

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Cloak and Dagger: Windfall (A0044)

Today’s Adventure:

An ex-pat gambler in Switzerland gets a top secret film both sides want and tries to sell to the highest bidder.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 22, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne; Bill Quinn; Jan Miner; Grant Richards; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Charles Irving; Stefan Snobble; Boris Aplon; Paul Arnold; Jerry Jarrett

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Cloak and Dagger: The Wine of Freedom (A0042)

Today’s Adventure:

An American OSS agent poses as a wine merchant in Germany to organize the country’s anti-Hitler elements into an effective resitance.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 15, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Mel Ferrer; Herbert Berghoff; Frances Robinson; Ralph Bell; Raymond Edward Johnson; Will McCure; Ian Martin; Karl Weber

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Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route (A0040)

Today’s Adventure:

In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Grant Richards; Arnold Moss; Luis Van Rooten

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Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route

Today’s Adventure:

In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring: Grant Richards; Arnold Moss; Luis Van Rooten

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Cloak and Dagger: Over Ground Railroad (A0032)

Today’s Adventure:

An OSS agent goes into France to team up with a formidable wealthy French woman to set up an escape route for downed Allied flyers.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 8, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne; Bryna Raeburn; Lily Valenti; Jack Gordon; Ralph Bell

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Cloak and Dagger: The Black Radio (A0028)

Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent parachutes into Germany to team up with a local operative to run an underground broadcast to undermine the Nazi propoganda.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 27, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring: Larry Haines, Lily Darvas, Berry Kroeger, Arnold Moss, Stefan Schnabel, Bob Wile, Jerry Jarrett,

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Cloak and Dagger: Roof of the World (A0024)

Today’s Adventure:

A husband and wife team of geologists are recruited by the IRS to journey into Tibet to seek the favor of the Dalai Lama. They find themselves in competition with two Nazi officers.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 13, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Louise Barclay; Grant Richards; Raymond Edward Johnson; Stefan Schnabel; Berry Kroeger; Janice Gilbert; Karl Weber; Ralph Bell; Jerry Jarrett

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