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LET GEORGE DO IT Volume 1 - 101 Episodes - DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

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OLD TIME RADIO - 101 Shows - Total Playtime: 49:43:11

Let George Do It was a radio drama series produced by Owen and Pauline Vinson from 1946 to 1954. It starred Bob Bailey as detective-for-hire George Valentine (with Olan Soule stepping into the role in 1954).
Clients came to Valentine's office after reading a newspaper carrying his classified ad:
Personal notice: Danger's my stock in trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me. George Valentine.
The few earliest episodes were more sitcom than private eye shows, with a studio audience providing scattered laughter at the not-so-funny scripts. Soon the audience was banished, and George went from stumbling comedic hero to tough guy private eye, while the music became suspenseful.
Valentine's secretary was Claire Brooks, aka Brooksie (Frances Robinson, Virginia Gregg, Lillian Buyeff). As Valentine made his rounds in search of the bad guys, he usually encountered Brooksie's kid brother, Sonny (Eddie Firestone), Lieutenant Riley (Wally Maher) and elevator man Caleb (Joseph Kearns). For the first few shows, Sonny was George's assistant, but he was soon relegated to an occasional character.
Sponsored by Standard Oil, the program was broadcast on the West Coast Mutual Broadcasting System from October 18, 1946 to September 27, 1954, first on Friday evenings and then on Mondays. In its last season, transcriptions were aired in New York, Wednesdays at 9:30pm, from January 20, 1954 to January 12, 1955.
John Hiestand was the program's announcer. Don Clark directed the scripts by David Victor and Jackson Gillis. The background music was supplied by Eddie Dunstedter, initially with a full orchestra. When television supplanted radio as the country's primary home entertainment, radio budgets got skimpier and skimpier and Dunstedter's orchestra was replaced by an organ.

EPISODES LIST:

460400 000 Audition 1
460400 000 Audition 2
460514 000 The First Client (Audition)
460920 001 First Show
461004 003 Kleptomaniac
461011 004 The Picnic
461018 005 Cousin Jeff and the Pigs
461025 006 The Brookdale Orphanage
461108 008 The Robber
461115 009 Snookums
461129 011 The Investment
471003 055 FortyTwo on a Rope
480405 082 The Smugglers
480412 083 Am I My Brother's Keeper
480419 084 The Bewildered Bird Watcher akaThe Penthouse Roof
480426 085 The Wolf Pack
480503 086 Under The River akaThe Tunnel Project
480510 087 The Spirit World
480531 090 Friendship Club akaIsland in the Lake
480607 091 Have Some Excitement
480614 092 A Piece Of Publicity akaHired for a Bodyguard
480621 093 Problem Child akaThe Unfit Mother
480628 094 Mr. Korawski American akaThe Racket
480705 095 Murder Me Twice akaThe Man Who Was Murdered Twice
480712 096 A Close Call
480719 097 A Deadman Who Was a Murderer
480726 098 The Seven Murder
480802 099 The Money Maker
480809 100 Perfect Speciman
480816 101 The Ghost on Bliss Terrace
480823 102 The Corpse That Took a Powder
480830 103 A Minor Case of Murder
480906 104 The Impatient Redhead
480913 105 The Father Who Had Nothing to Say
480920 106 The Hearse Was Painted Pink
480927 107 The Little Man Who Was Everywhere
481018 110 Death Wears a Gay Sports Jacket
481025 111 The Seven Dead Years
481101 112 The Flowers That Smelled of Murder
481108 113 Murder Its A Gift
481122 115 Who Is Sylvia
481129 116 Stand In for Murder
481206 117 The Malignant Heart
481227 120 Death in Fancy Dress
490103 121 Murder and One to Go
490110 122 The Corpse on a Caper
490117 123 The Payoff Is Murder
490124 124 Till Death Do Us Part
490131 125 Mayhem by Experts
490207 126 One Against A City
490214 127 Destination Dead End
490221 128 Journey into Hate
490228 129 Your Money or Your Life
490307 130 The Roundabout Murder
490314 131 The Motive Is Murder
490321 132 Four Sided Triangle
490328 133 The Host of Casa Diablo
490418 136 The Elusive Hundred Grand
490425 137 The Lady in Distress
490502 138 Out of Mind
490509 139 Vultures on the Wing
490516 140 Come and Get Me
490523 141 Stranger Than Fiction
490530 142 A Matter of Doubt
490530 143 Death in Blue Jeans
490613 144 Serenade to the Southern Star
490620 145 The Next to the Last Guest
490725 150 Laura's House
490801 151 Perfect Alibi
490808 152 One Chance at the World
490815 153 The Problem of Joe Martin
490822 154 Empress of Fishfalls
490829 155 End of Summer
490905 156 Everything Is Nice
490912 157 Valley Sunset
490919 158 The Coward
490926 159 The Man Under the Elm Trees
491017 162 Double Death
491024 163 The Rose Petal Staircase
491031 164 Every Shot Counts
491107 165 The Dark Chain
491114 166 Run Until Dead
491121 167 Sweet Poison
491128 168 No Riders
491205 169 Too Near the Sky
491212 170 Partner in Panama
491219 171 Follow That Train
491226 172 Snow Blind
500102 173 Needle In The Haystack
500109 174 The Silent Waterfall
500116 175 Juniper Lane
500123 176 The Floaters
500130 177 The Ugly Duckling
500206 178 The Old Style
500213 179 Go Jump in the Lake
500320 184 The Ghost of Ireland Betty (repeated on 540927)
500327 185 The Tears of Sorrow
500403 186 The Brothers McIntosh
500410 187 Portrait by Priscilla
500417 188 Mixup In La Cruza
500424 189 Death Begins at 45
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