30 minute detective/adventure show
“Your man when you can't go to the cops. Confidentiality a speciality."
Barry Craig had a somewhat troubled broadcast history, especially for being fairly successful. It aired a total of 190 episodes (unfortunately not many survived, we only have 31) from 1951 to 1955. The show would have separate versions of the episodes depending on which coast it was airing, it moved from time slot to time slot, production moved from New York (1951 to 1954) to Hollywood (1955), and to top it off, it changed its name from “Barry Crane” to “Barrie Craig”, to “Barry Craig”. In a completely arbitrary decision, we're going with the final spelling of the program: “Barry Craig”. The show was more of a mid-season replacement than a headliner show, but was certainly good enough to last a few years.
William Gargan, well-known for his portrayal of television and radio detective Martin Kane, was the voice Barry Craig, while Ralph Bell portrayed his associate, Lt. Travis Rogers. The settings of the episodes were in New York, Craig's office was on Madison Avenue. As the promos went, he was "Your man when you can't go to the cops. Confidentiality a specialty." Like Sam Spade, Craig narrated his stories. Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Craig had a laid-back personality, somewhat cutting against the popular "hard-boiled detective" stereotype. Others in the cast included Parley Baer and Betty Lou Gerson.While Gargan received many accolades as an actor, perhaps he didn't need to explore his trade that much, he was one of the few (possibly the only) radio detective who had been an actual private investigator. As a real detective he did the typical jobs, not usually made into radio of television shows, including guarding payrolls, tailing suspects, stakeouts, and protection. He had even been shot on the job trying to collect owed money.
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All of our Old Time Radio Programs are in MP3 format. You can play them on your computer, you can transfer them to MP3 players (like the IPod), but, by and large, you cannot play them on stereos, walkmen, or car radios.
The sound quality of Old Time Radio Programs can vary greatly. Some episodes are excellent, others you have to turn up the volume a little and ignore the static. All of the episodes can be listened to and enjoyed. You can listen to our free samples to get a feel for how the programs sound.
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Episode List
Barrie-Craig_510507 Case Of The Philanth.mp3
Barrie-Craig_511017 The Judge and the Ch.mp3
Barrie-Craig_511024 Case of the Protecti.mp3
Barrie-Craig_511031 Case of the Corpse o.mp3
Barrie-Craig_511107 Case of the Borrowed.mp3
Barrie-Craig_511114 Dead on Arrival.mp3
Barrie-Craig_511121 Murder in Wax.mp3
Barrie-Craig_511205 Paper Bullet.mp3
Barrie-Craig_520213 Cupie Doll.mp3
Barrie-Craig_520220 The Motive For Murde.mp3
Barrie-Craig_521015 Dead Loss.mp3
Barrie-Craig_5303xx The Impostor.mp3
Barrie-Craig_530503 WalkingTheDog.mp3
Barrie-Craig_531003 Alias Clark Smith.mp3
Barrie-Craig_540406 Johnny Phenox.mp3
Barrie-Craig_540713 Murder by Error.mp3
Barrie-Craig_540817 MidSummer Lunacy.mp3
Barrie-Craig_540824 Blood Money.mp3
Barrie-Craig_540831 Hay Is For Homicide.mp3
Barrie-Craig_540907 Ghosts Don't Die In .mp3
Barrie-Craig_541121 Moe and Larry.mp3
Barrie-Craig_541219 Bull Fiddle.mp3
Barrie-Craig_550209 Missing Hotel Room.mp3
Barrie-Craig_550309 Corpse On The Town.mp3
Barrie-Craig_Dead on Arrival.mp3
Barrie-Craig_Death Buys A Broom.mp3
Barrie-Craig_For Love of Murder.mp3
Barrie-Craig_Protection Racket.mp3
Barrie-Craig_The Tough Guy.mp3
