Starter of this subject: Lou Wagner
Last post in this subject: 11/25/2000
Messages in this subject: 1
| Lou Wagner | 11/25/2000 1 replies |
| I am seventy-six years old. My favorite weekly radio show..after I did my school work, was the Eno Crime Clues. It's sponser was Eno Effervescent Salts. The main characters were Spencer Dean and Dan Cassidy. They were police detectives. There shows were very realistic. They had one show where I thought the murder actually happened....ala Orson Welles- War of the Worlds. Does anyone else remember this show? It was in the late 30's, early 40's. Thank you old radio listeners. |
| Jack French | 11/25/2000 0 replies |
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A lot of us recall this show by its original name: Eno Crime Club. It debuted in Febrary 1931 on CBS as a 15 minute show. Then it went to a half hour one in 1932. In 1933 it swtiched to the NBC Blue Network and in September 1934 changed its name to Eno Crime Clues. Probably this occurred because they had run out of murder mystery novels to dramatize. Under the new show title, listeners were invited to "match wits with the manhunter." It went off the air in June 1936.
At different times, Edwards Reese and Clyde North played the lead, Spencer Dean, Manhunter. His partner, Danny Cassidy, was first portrayed by Walter Glass and later Jack MacBryde. A third character in the show, Jane Elliot, was the voice of Helen Choate. The show originated from New York City so other Manhattan actors filled in the rest of the cast: Ray Collins, Georgis Backus, and Adele Ronson (who was also "Wilma" on Buck Rogers). There are about 10 shows still in circulation tody, all from the 1933-34 era |