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Cloak and Dagger (radio series)

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US radio adventure series (1950)

Cloak and Dagger is an NBC radio series, a foreign intrigue adventure adapted from the book Cloak and Dagger by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain. Ford also was host of the series. Cloak and Dagger was broadcast from May 7 to October 22, 1950, as part of "a mystery block with several other shows of far inferior quality". The program was sustaining for all 22 episodes.

Personnel

The cast that included Raymond Edward Johnson, Everett Sloane and Jackson Beck. Robert Warren and Karl Weber were the announcers. Scriptwriter Wyllis Cooper directed the series with research support provided by Percy Hoskins, British journalist, crime reporter and author. The producers were Alfred Hollander and Louis G. Cowan, with Sherman Marks as director. Jack Gordon and Winifred Wolfe were the writers, and John Gart provided music.

Episodes

Stories on Cloak and Dagger "came right out of Washington files" of the Office of Strategic Services. A 1950 newspaper article commented, "The stories dramatized each week are true, and yet as fantastic as any fiction writer might be able to dream up." The program was the first network series based on fully authenticated case histories of OSS espionage.

References

  1. ^ "Radio-Television". Altoona Tribune. Altoona Tribune. August 1, 1950. p. 13. Retrieved April 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. Terrace, Vincent (2 September 2015). Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows. McFarland. pp. 77–78. ISBN 978-1-4766-0528-9. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  3. Terrace, Vincent (8 June 2015). Radio Program Openings and Closings, 1931-1972. McFarland. pp. 52–53. ISBN 978-1-4766-1223-2. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  4. ^ Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  5. ^ Cox, Jim (June 14, 2015). Radio Crime Fighters: More Than 300 Programs from the Golden Age. McFarland. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-1-4766-1227-0. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  6. "WFLA to Air Three New Whodunits". The Tampa Tribune. May 7, 1950. p. 33. Retrieved July 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

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