# Counterspy: Statue of Death (A0094)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 6 Jun 2026, 36 min.

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Today's Adventure: When a respected Mexican businessman suddenly reappears at the home of the woman he loves, it is only because a mysterious religious statue he once gave away may now be carrying a deadly secret. As a pair of ruthless spies race to recover it, David Harding and the Counter Spies investigate the theft of radioactive material from a Tennessee atomic plant before it can be smuggled out of the country. Original Radio Broadcast: August 16, 1949 Originating in New York Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters.Also featuring Jesse Crawford (music). Produced by the Phillips H. Lord Productions. To subscribe to this podcast and, go to Great Adventures of Old Time Radio Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at Patreon Patreon Supporter of the Day: Nancy, Patreon supporter since March 2016. Support the show on a one-time basis at Support the Show Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey at Listener Survey Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at Instagram Follow us on Twitter Twitter/X

## Transcript

[0:05] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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[0:41] Speaker 1: nineteen forty nine, here is Statue of Death.
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[1:02] Speaker 2: counter Spy.
[1:12] Speaker 3: Washington, calling David Hunting counters by Washington calling David Hunting counters.
[1:17] Speaker 4: By harding counters by calling Washington.
[1:27] Speaker 5: United States Collar Spies, especially appointet to investigate and combat.
[1:33] Speaker 1: The enemies of our country.
[1:35] Speaker 4: Bullet Hole and Lebral.
[1:41] Speaker 2: The Night the case of the Statue of Death. Another
[1:45] Speaker 2: Counterspy report to the American people, brought to you each
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[2:24] Speaker 2: Remember why take less when Pepsi's best? And now to counterspy.
[2:38] Speaker 2: Over the hills of Tennessee, the late afternoon sun was
[2:41] Speaker 2: low on the horizon. A young chemist stood on the
[2:45] Speaker 2: grounds of the world's largest atomic plant, its grounds protected
[2:49] Speaker 2: by high fences, its gates guarded by the latest scientific devices.
[2:54] Speaker 2: As the young man walked along the grounds. Inside the
[2:57] Speaker 2: main gate, he bent over and picked up a little
[2:59] Speaker 2: great cat.
[3:00] Speaker 6: Hello, kiddy, how's melded house catching business? Pretty good?
[3:08] Speaker 1: H got that dog the gate?
[3:11] Speaker 6: Oh, Mildred, here he comes, easy, I don't jump down,
[3:15] Speaker 6: call take my head off.
[3:18] Speaker 7: Lust And now you're in for a fight.
[3:20] Speaker 8: Come on, leave that cut along there.
[3:26] Speaker 7: Let's see a cop. What's your name, Tommy, beautiful color
[3:33] Speaker 7: you are, Tommy, Yes, sir, good long.
[3:39] Speaker 6: Master's whistling for you, Tommy. That man outside the gate
[3:41] Speaker 6: he's going to scold you for running in here.
[3:44] Speaker 7: Go down, Tommy, Go.
[3:45] Speaker 8: Boy, Tuddy.
[4:01] Speaker 9: The more memory paper, Yeah, mister Morton, you're working on
[4:05] Speaker 9: that little statue of Saint Cecilia like you was Michael
[4:08] Speaker 9: Loewe and Mangelo.
[4:11] Speaker 10: I certainly didn't hire you because you had brains. Stubby,
[4:14] Speaker 10: it's Michaelangelo.
[4:17] Speaker 4: Here's your memory paper.
[4:19] Speaker 11: How's the statue?
[4:20] Speaker 8: Look?
[4:21] Speaker 11: It's okay if you like and teach you never guess.
[4:25] Speaker 10: There's a vial of uranium compound worth half a million
[4:29] Speaker 10: dollars hidden in the neck.
[4:31] Speaker 7: With half a million dollars.
[4:35] Speaker 4: I'd like to.
[4:35] Speaker 10: Kiss it, kissing it's all right, but keep this stuff
[4:39] Speaker 10: close to you long enough and you'll become radioactive and die.
[4:45] Speaker 10: Don't you ever touch this statuette without a pair of
[4:48] Speaker 10: these special gloves.
[4:49] Speaker 11: I won't even kiss him.
[4:51] Speaker 9: But mister Martinham found guys you're in touch with, will
[4:54] Speaker 9: they pay you up in their own door? Good old
[4:56] Speaker 9: United States, Green Banks Stubby.
[4:58] Speaker 10: You and I have lived in this Dayanke town, fifty
[5:01] Speaker 10: miles from the atomic plant for two years, planning and working.
[5:06] Speaker 10: Finally success. We're going to be paid plenty in the
[5:09] Speaker 10: United States.
[5:10] Speaker 11: Green Bank.
[5:11] Speaker 9: That was a slick Stunn, all right, getting this uranium
[5:13] Speaker 9: compound out of the gate and stuck in the dog's
[5:16] Speaker 9: long hair with adhesive tape.
[5:18] Speaker 11: The dog was so low and ran so fast.
[5:22] Speaker 9: Even the gey got counter at the gate didn't register. Boy,
[5:26] Speaker 9: I had done good when I hooked up with you,
[5:27] Speaker 9: mister Morton. You get more brains in all them bank
[5:30] Speaker 9: heisters and counterfeiters I ever worked with.
[5:33] Speaker 11: But now we got this stuff.
[5:35] Speaker 9: Mister Morton, how do we get the statue out of
[5:37] Speaker 9: the country.
[5:38] Speaker 11: You'll have a guess study or will anybody out? Yeah,
[5:42] Speaker 11: have to be some way, like nobody ever thought of him.
[5:46] Speaker 10: Remember every Sunday the past two months I drove over
[5:49] Speaker 10: to that mountain resort one hundred miles west.
[5:52] Speaker 11: So at the big hotel.
[5:55] Speaker 10: There's a certain guests I've been studying, wealthy Mexican gentleman
[6:01] Speaker 10: named Juan Satillo, about forty seven, good character and.
[6:06] Speaker 7: Very relitious.
[6:08] Speaker 11: Yeah, he's visiting over the resort.
[6:10] Speaker 10: But his home is in Acapulco, Mexico, the famous beach resort,
[6:16] Speaker 10: beach and an ideal place for us to catch a
[6:19] Speaker 10: ship Europe.
[6:20] Speaker 4: So maybe we could stay a while.
[6:22] Speaker 10: There's the uranium compound will be discovered any minute.
[6:27] Speaker 11: We've got to get it.
[6:28] Speaker 10: To Acapulco fast. That's where the Mexican gentleman, Senor.
[6:32] Speaker 11: Sattillo is going to help it.
[6:34] Speaker 7: I don't get you.
[6:35] Speaker 11: We're going over to visiting study.
[6:37] Speaker 4: Get the car.
[6:46] Speaker 10: Only about ten miles more to the hotel where Senor
[6:49] Speaker 10: Satillo is staying study. And what do we do then,
[6:51] Speaker 10: mister Morton, every evening about dusk he walks along the
[6:56] Speaker 10: shore of a little lake in the back of the hotel.
[6:59] Speaker 11: There are on the lake. I'm going to be rowing
[7:03] Speaker 11: in one of them. Oh look, I hate rowing.
[7:04] Speaker 10: Want to be with me study. I want something to happen.
[7:08] Speaker 10: So this statue of Saint Cecilia will mean a great
[7:12] Speaker 10: deal to him, so that he won't part with it
[7:14] Speaker 10: under any condition.
[7:15] Speaker 4: Look, mister Martin, you hired me to help you.
[7:17] Speaker 9: I've been with your two years, most of the time
[7:19] Speaker 9: with my mouth hanging open.
[7:20] Speaker 11: And what you do with onont you explain to me
[7:23] Speaker 11: about the boat and stuff.
[7:25] Speaker 10: Don't see the sailing study. No matter what happened, don't
[7:29] Speaker 10: come to me in the boat. That's what I want,
[7:32] Speaker 10: Senor sil walking on the lake shore. All right, that's
[7:54] Speaker 10: the time.
[8:00] Speaker 4: Oh okay, well.
[8:02] Speaker 11: Oh.
[8:25] Speaker 10: H m hm, listens a tale. I'm the man you
[8:31] Speaker 10: said from drowning last day.
[8:33] Speaker 7: Oh yes, Senor Martin, come in.
[8:39] Speaker 4: A tell.
[8:40] Speaker 11: I brought you a gift appreciation. Let me show it
[8:44] Speaker 11: to you.
[8:48] Speaker 10: No, it's beautiful, a statue of Saint Cecilia that belonged
[8:54] Speaker 10: to my mother before she died.
[8:56] Speaker 7: Please take no, no, Senor mort and I I could
[8:59] Speaker 7: not accept such a could you say my life? I
[9:03] Speaker 7: want you to have it, I insist I would juish it. Senor.
[9:10] Speaker 7: I realized how dear it must be to you. Are
[9:16] Speaker 7: you staying in the States And no, I am starting
[9:18] Speaker 7: to my home in a copol for Mexico tomorrow.
[9:21] Speaker 4: I am driving down.
[9:23] Speaker 11: I'll be happy to know, sir, that my statue of
[9:25] Speaker 11: Saint Cecilia will.
[9:26] Speaker 4: Be going with you.
[9:28] Speaker 7: Thank you, mister Martine. Why you stake on deals? An
[9:32] Speaker 7: English one would say, May God be with you.
[10:02] Speaker 4: Helena.
[10:03] Speaker 12: While I've been waiting here at the missional afternoon.
[10:13] Speaker 7: It is a long drive here from Tennessee, Elena, and
[10:17] Speaker 7: I have five hundred miles more to drive to my home.
[10:20] Speaker 8: One.
[10:20] Speaker 7: I hope perhaps this time he would stay. I promised
[10:26] Speaker 7: you that while I was in the States, I would
[10:28] Speaker 7: think about us and come to a decision. I love
[10:31] Speaker 7: you very much, one. I love you very much too, Elena.
[10:36] Speaker 7: But listen and try to understand. You know I'll do
[10:40] Speaker 7: whatever you say. Your father is a fine man, a
[10:43] Speaker 7: proud man, and you are all eslea I do in
[10:48] Speaker 7: my way. I am a proud man, and and I
[10:52] Speaker 7: know he does not want you to marry.
[10:54] Speaker 11: Me, but we will tell him.
[10:55] Speaker 7: My life does not belong to him anymore. It belongs
[10:57] Speaker 7: to you, Elena. I am much older than you. Your
[11:02] Speaker 7: father wants you to be the wife of a younger man.
[11:06] Speaker 7: And because I am older than you, I know something
[11:10] Speaker 7: you do now. If you defy your father, he will
[11:14] Speaker 7: die of bitter and shame, and you could never forgive
[11:19] Speaker 7: yourself or whe you're a fine man. There is no
[11:28] Speaker 7: other man, maew Elena. I have something in the car here,
[11:36] Speaker 7: something I want you to have. His statue of Celia
[11:42] Speaker 7: given to me by a man whose life I said
[11:45] Speaker 7: it was very dear to him. What better could I
[11:48] Speaker 7: do than give it to the one I love as
[11:51] Speaker 7: our parting. I would keep it at the head of
[11:56] Speaker 7: my bed always. I will never part with it. I
[12:00] Speaker 7: should pray every morning and night that she will watch
[12:03] Speaker 7: over you and protest you by any good bye, one,
[12:21] Speaker 7: good bye.
[12:24] Speaker 8: I love you for it.
[12:42] Speaker 7: Mhm mhm, m hmm.
[12:47] Speaker 4: That is a tar.
[12:47] Speaker 7: Huh what are you doing here in my patia?
[12:51] Speaker 11: Don't you recognize me? Then?
[12:54] Speaker 7: You're Mortin, the man whose life I saved.
[12:57] Speaker 13: Didn't you tell this is Stubby, a man who works
[13:02] Speaker 13: for How do you do mill that statuette of since
[13:07] Speaker 13: Cecilia I gave you in the state I need it back?
[13:11] Speaker 7: I do?
[13:12] Speaker 8: Where is it?
[13:13] Speaker 7: I'm sorry, but I can't tell you.
[13:15] Speaker 11: Why can't you tell you?
[13:17] Speaker 7: I cannot say that.
[13:19] Speaker 10: Maybe just gone will make you think a little differently, mister,
[13:26] Speaker 10: if you don't want to be shot right this minute,
[13:30] Speaker 10: walk up front to our car.
[13:40] Speaker 4: Oh no, can you hear me.
[13:48] Speaker 11: Again?
[13:48] Speaker 4: I ask you, where's that statuette?
[13:53] Speaker 8: I will not tell you?
[13:54] Speaker 4: Okay, study, yeah, you.
[14:00] Speaker 11: Know more than I can take it.
[14:11] Speaker 4: Listen to me.
[14:13] Speaker 11: The reason you won't say where that statue of Saint Cecilia.
[14:16] Speaker 8: Is is it?
[14:18] Speaker 10: Because you might hurt somebody if you did. Now we're
[14:23] Speaker 10: getting somewhere. Who is that person?
[14:26] Speaker 7: I would never tell, not if you beat me for
[14:29] Speaker 7: a hundred years.
[14:30] Speaker 10: Does that person have the statuette? Listen to til I
[14:37] Speaker 10: gave you that statuette so you would bring it down
[14:39] Speaker 10: here to Acapulco. I knew with your reputation no one
[14:44] Speaker 10: would suspect you. But hidden in that statue it's half
[14:49] Speaker 10: a million dollars worth of a certain uranium compound. What
[14:53] Speaker 10: the statue is not lead? If anyone has it who
[14:57] Speaker 10: doesn't know how to handle it, that person who will
[15:00] Speaker 10: become radioactive and die.
[15:04] Speaker 7: Joy you try to frighten me with lice you overhead.
[15:08] Speaker 11: Of the effects of the atom bomb. The radioactivity will
[15:12] Speaker 11: just cause death.
[15:13] Speaker 7: I will go and get the statue.
[15:14] Speaker 11: Tell me where it is and we'll get it.
[15:16] Speaker 14: No, no, Benja must promise not to follow me, all right?
[15:21] Speaker 14: I probably on your word upny, Yes, on my word
[15:24] Speaker 14: of I must drive five hundred miles.
[15:27] Speaker 4: I would start now, five hundred miles.
[15:29] Speaker 7: I'll get to my feet. I will be back in
[15:31] Speaker 7: three days.
[15:34] Speaker 4: On my aunt.
[15:34] Speaker 8: You better hurry.
[15:36] Speaker 4: Yes, I must Hurney.
[15:39] Speaker 8: I must.
[15:51] Speaker 2: Back to counterspy in a moment, but first hits the collar,
[15:55] Speaker 2: hit the spot.
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[16:00] Speaker 2: Why take less when Pepsi's been more and more among
[16:03] Speaker 2: fellows and girls, among mothers and dads. You hear that
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[16:17] Speaker 2: you two delicious drinks that's twice as much tangy taste,
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[16:32] Speaker 2: mine family is Hollo for America. They're all saying, why
[16:36] Speaker 2: take less when pepsi is bet?
[16:39] Speaker 4: Pepsi cola so delicious and its bottle makes to drinks.
[16:42] Speaker 2: It is certainly a cola for the purchaser who thinks
[16:45] Speaker 2: everybody's drinking.
[16:46] Speaker 8: Pepsi does compare it with the rest.
[16:48] Speaker 11: So much more and so much finer.
[16:50] Speaker 4: Why take less when pepsis.
[16:51] Speaker 2: Beest today tomorrow. Always get America's biggest cola value. Take
[16:56] Speaker 2: home a carton of six big big Pepsi bottles. Insist
[17:00] Speaker 2: don pepsi at the store, and say pepsi at the fountain,
[17:04] Speaker 2: Say pepsi at a fan, Say pepsi whenever you reach
[17:09] Speaker 2: for refreshment. Remember why take less when pepsi bed? And
[17:14] Speaker 2: now back to counterspy. In the dim main room of
[17:30] Speaker 2: a luxurious Mexican haucienda, two men tensely face each other.
[17:36] Speaker 15: Senor Sortio, I must ask you to leave my house.
[17:39] Speaker 7: At once, Senor appuiness, I beg of you to let
[17:42] Speaker 7: me see your daughter.
[17:43] Speaker 8: I will not.
[17:44] Speaker 7: You are right to be angry, but believe me, I
[17:48] Speaker 7: would not come without a good reason.
[17:50] Speaker 15: You are a man of honor.
[17:51] Speaker 7: Signor.
[17:52] Speaker 11: You told her an you would never see her again.
[17:55] Speaker 4: I am her father.
[17:57] Speaker 11: I forbid you to see.
[17:58] Speaker 7: Her now, Senor, with all respect, by Mossie Elena, and
[18:04] Speaker 7: I shall before I leave this house. Her life depends
[18:07] Speaker 7: on her life.
[18:09] Speaker 15: Do you say you must have great reason indeed to
[18:13] Speaker 15: come here now to use such words too? I am
[18:19] Speaker 15: sorry you could not have knowne none. I must remember
[18:26] Speaker 15: even now that you loved her deeply. That is the
[18:30] Speaker 15: door to her room.
[18:32] Speaker 7: Her room is she in?
[18:36] Speaker 15: The doctors do not understand it, but they say there
[18:40] Speaker 15: is no hope for her. No hope she is. She's dying.
[18:48] Speaker 15: Senor Statio, that is her room. You may go in.
[18:56] Speaker 8: H h kah.
[19:05] Speaker 15: H h.
[19:15] Speaker 7: Helena one, what are you wea here? Yess Elena? I
[19:25] Speaker 7: am let me touch you. I am sorry, Helena, so bitterly,
[19:33] Speaker 7: terribly sad. On the table here your statue of Saint Cecilia.
[19:40] Speaker 15: It has been near me all the time.
[19:43] Speaker 16: Right.
[19:45] Speaker 7: I don't know what to say. I am so happy
[19:48] Speaker 7: in your car, Elena. I'm going to take the statue
[19:52] Speaker 7: right away, very well. If you must for a moment,
[20:02] Speaker 7: hold it where I can see it, and you m h.
[20:11] Speaker 15: I'll be waiting for you.
[20:13] Speaker 7: What sometimes some who are I promise and my word
[20:20] Speaker 7: of honner. I must leave now, goodbye one, but.
[20:27] Speaker 15: I'll be waiting.
[20:36] Speaker 8: H m hm.
[20:50] Speaker 4: Huh say away what? Oh, Senor Martin, you had a statuette,
[20:56] Speaker 4: give it today?
[20:57] Speaker 10: You promise you would not follow me if I have
[20:58] Speaker 10: a million dollars at stake, stubby, Let you have it
[21:01] Speaker 10: so I can't talk.
[21:02] Speaker 12: Oh, yes, this is coming throughus in mister Harding Secretary. No,
[21:17] Speaker 12: mister Harding's not here. He flew out this morning. He's
[21:20] Speaker 12: already at the atomic plant in Tennessee.
[21:28] Speaker 3: Naturally, mister Harding, the theft of uranium compound from this
[21:31] Speaker 3: atomic plant doesn't matter for the compass binder. Well, doctor Corning,
[21:34] Speaker 3: what section of the plan do you believe it was
[21:36] Speaker 3: stolen from right from this laboratory section, mister Harding. It's
[21:39] Speaker 3: highly radioactive, isn't it. Unless precautions are taken, it can
[21:44] Speaker 3: be fatal. Partly, mister Harding bir yes, what, yes, yes, yes,
[21:52] Speaker 3: of course, Well that's awful, awful, Yes, I'll tell mister
[21:56] Speaker 3: Harting at once.
[21:57] Speaker 4: What is the doctor?
[21:59] Speaker 3: One of our young chemist, cell would Parks, that just
[22:01] Speaker 3: shot himself over his house home, and he left a
[22:03] Speaker 3: suicide note addressed to you.
[22:06] Speaker 4: Let's get over there as fast as we can.
[22:07] Speaker 8: Doctor.
[22:08] Speaker 4: I want to read that note.
[22:16] Speaker 17: I am killing myself because I committed trees and blackmailed
[22:20] Speaker 17: by a man whose identity I never learned, but I
[22:23] Speaker 17: followed his orders. I stole the uranium from the laboratory.
[22:28] Speaker 17: Out in the yard, I picked up the yard cat.
[22:31] Speaker 17: The man was on the outside of the gate with
[22:33] Speaker 17: a Collie shepherd dog. He let the dog run in
[22:37] Speaker 17: through the gate and there was a fight of all
[22:40] Speaker 17: the fiendishlyles schemes. I petted the dog, but as I
[22:44] Speaker 17: did so, I hid the vial under the collie's stomach
[22:46] Speaker 17: with adhesive tape. The dog's owner whistled, the dog ran
[22:50] Speaker 17: out of the gate. Looks unnatural. The guard paid no attention.
[22:55] Speaker 17: What a trick to Now I cannot live on as
[22:58] Speaker 17: a trader. My children, forgive me? What a name for
[23:06] Speaker 17: young Zellno, it could have given us just one clue
[23:09] Speaker 17: to the identity of the man. Maybe he did Peters
[23:11] Speaker 17: without realizing it. In this part of the country, people
[23:14] Speaker 17: prefer hounds, and not many have Collie shepherd dogs. I
[23:18] Speaker 17: want you to locate every Collie shepherd dog within one
[23:20] Speaker 17: hundred miles of this plant were outside the town. Peters,
[23:33] Speaker 17: you can drop the sirn Now, go ahead and tell me.
[23:37] Speaker 17: We've located one hundred and nineteen college shepherd dogs within
[23:40] Speaker 17: one hundred miles of the atomic plant. The owner's all
[23:43] Speaker 17: students fiction. The only odd situation is this family were
[23:45] Speaker 17: going to visit Six weeks ago. A man named mort
[23:49] Speaker 17: said he was going to Mexico and gave them his dog.
[23:52] Speaker 17: That's worth investigating. I'm glad you brought along the Geiger
[23:55] Speaker 17: counter too. With so much uranium compound taped to the
[23:57] Speaker 17: body of the dog, even though it was only on
[23:59] Speaker 17: him for a few minute, it may have made him radioactive.
[24:02] Speaker 17: And there are some trucks I had, Peter Sounder, siren
[24:04] Speaker 17: time country, Easy, easy, boy, this isn't gonna hurt all
[24:22] Speaker 17: set with the counter.
[24:23] Speaker 8: Day.
[24:23] Speaker 4: Move a dog over this way, father, Peter, Boy, come on,
[24:29] Speaker 4: let's try the Geiger counter. Oh that's normal. Swing a
[24:38] Speaker 4: dog over a little, father, Come on boy, here you
[24:40] Speaker 4: doing good? Boy?
[24:47] Speaker 17: He sure is radioactive. This is the dog, without any question, Peters,
[24:52] Speaker 17: look at that needle. This dog will never live. Sorry,
[24:57] Speaker 17: old boy. Look at his eyes. I think he knows
[25:02] Speaker 17: the too, Peter. As you say, the woman who has
[25:04] Speaker 17: this dog now says that the man who gave it
[25:05] Speaker 17: to her mentioned flying to Mexico. Yes, I'll check any
[25:09] Speaker 17: plane reservations made recently from around here to Mexico and
[25:12] Speaker 17: contact the Mexican police. The thieves are going to want
[25:14] Speaker 17: to get that Gurini into some foreign country.
[25:16] Speaker 4: Just as soon as they can.
[25:35] Speaker 9: To mister Morton, I'm sure glad to see that boat study.
[25:39] Speaker 9: I'll be glad to get out of rockapool coat too.
[25:43] Speaker 10: Not too happy about our disguise, as though, whereas the
[25:47] Speaker 10: best we could do. You got the tickets ice one
[25:49] Speaker 10: study for Europe.
[25:51] Speaker 4: And a half a million books per your fame.
[25:53] Speaker 8: Hey, well, we aren't going.
[25:56] Speaker 10: To Europe for that little tob That's only the lighter
[25:58] Speaker 10: to take passengers out of the ship.
[26:00] Speaker 9: He's anchored way out. Don't let that suitcase get out
[26:03] Speaker 9: of your hands. Feather have a line. We have to
[26:06] Speaker 9: show our tickets.
[26:15] Speaker 7: You know, I got a laugh.
[26:16] Speaker 4: Watching right in my hands. Enough you rained him come shopping.
[26:22] Speaker 4: Here's the guy taking the pickets. Tickets, please please show
[26:27] Speaker 4: your tickets.
[26:28] Speaker 18: There you are you two gentlemen, brs, two gentlemen. I
[26:31] Speaker 18: want to port it for that banks And okay, very well, that.
[26:39] Speaker 8: The moment we're delaying a lie.
[26:41] Speaker 4: Let's keep going. Stand where you are A gun and
[26:45] Speaker 4: another one right behind your boy. Walk through that door?
[26:52] Speaker 4: What is it? And I say, counter five Peters, I've
[26:55] Speaker 4: got the covered. See they have guns.
[26:58] Speaker 16: We're one each. But the honey, I protest that treatment.
[27:02] Speaker 16: If I am wrong, I'll apologize. Peter in the table,
[27:10] Speaker 16: WO bring the gager counter closer.
[27:13] Speaker 17: Yeah, no, let's see paper, books, shirts, ties, toilet. Martin
[27:27] Speaker 17: wants this wrapped in flannel.
[27:29] Speaker 11: Just h thatt your wet.
[27:34] Speaker 8: Hear that.
[27:36] Speaker 4: The gager counter tells us that whatever is in this
[27:38] Speaker 4: plannel is radioactive. Open up, Peters, let's see.
[27:41] Speaker 11: But I well.
[27:45] Speaker 4: That's your weather thinks? Is cee you? Martin? Is this
[27:48] Speaker 4: where you hit the uranium compound you stole from the
[27:50] Speaker 4: Atomic plan.
[27:51] Speaker 11: I don't know what you're talking about.
[27:52] Speaker 4: You blackmailed a man, and you're helping you get it
[27:54] Speaker 4: up with your own Cali dog.
[27:56] Speaker 11: You're out of your mind.
[27:57] Speaker 4: I never owned a dog in my life. Just the moment,
[27:59] Speaker 4: I have another way to make a test. Come not
[28:02] Speaker 4: tell me my wife. He's jumping all over.
[28:06] Speaker 11: It doesn't mean anything.
[28:07] Speaker 4: The dog hasn't forgotten. You had all the people here.
[28:10] Speaker 4: He picked you right out. You killed him. Now he's
[28:13] Speaker 4: putting a finger on you.
[28:30] Speaker 2: When your friends drop in, be generous, but he's thrifty too.
[28:33] Speaker 2: Serve plenty of delicious pepsicola. Pepsi's big twelve hour bottle
[28:38] Speaker 2: gives you not just one sparkling glassful, but two. Get
[28:41] Speaker 2: a cart in the six and serve twelve delicious drinks. Yes,
[28:45] Speaker 2: pepsi is America's biggest cole of value. You get twice
[28:48] Speaker 2: the tangy taste, twice the refreshment, twice the pepsi, So
[28:52] Speaker 2: why take less when pepsi is dead. Whenever you reach
[28:56] Speaker 2: for a refreshment, remember pepsicklah spot twofold glasses, battle, lot lots.
[29:02] Speaker 4: More value, lot lots more value, lots more death.
[29:06] Speaker 8: Py take that when.
[29:07] Speaker 2: Testy said, Tune and every Tuesday and Thursday, same time,
[29:11] Speaker 2: same station to counter spy. Listen on Thursday for the
[29:15] Speaker 2: exciting counter spy case of the Desert explosions.
[29:19] Speaker 17: The man eating birds of prey that were used to
[29:21] Speaker 17: execute a betrayer, the worldwide smuggler who used geometry and
[29:26] Speaker 17: action to test salesmen of information, and the three pennies
[29:31] Speaker 17: worth of sulfur that were used to trick the killer
[29:33] Speaker 17: the Law Couldn't touch. Be sure to be listening on Thursday,
[29:37] Speaker 17: day after Tomorrow to Case of the Desert Explosions on Counterspy.
[29:50] Speaker 17: The night's counter Spy program originated in New York and
[29:53] Speaker 17: featured Don McLaughlin and Mandel Kramer, with music by Jesse Crawford.
[29:58] Speaker 17: Counter Spy is a Philip Floyd production for Pepsi Cola.
[30:02] Speaker 17: Enjoy some Pepsi ice Cold tonight, Welcome back.
[30:19] Speaker 1: Well, this was an interesting case as far as it went,
[30:24] Speaker 1: but a bit of a bummer. I felt so bad
[30:27] Speaker 1: for Senior Setillo, as he really did seem to be
[30:31] Speaker 1: a stand up guy in every way, and Elena, and
[30:35] Speaker 1: of course the poor Tommy the Holy Shepherd. The sad
[30:40] Speaker 1: thing is that Morton and Stubby probably will have a
[30:44] Speaker 1: more pleasant fate than any of them. In terms of
[30:48] Speaker 1: the episodes statement about dog ownership in Tennessee in nineteen
[30:54] Speaker 1: forty nine, it was pretty accurate. This was based the location,
[31:01] Speaker 1: likely inspired by an actual facility that was in East Tennessee,
[31:06] Speaker 1: and hounds far more popular than other dogs, although coley
[31:13] Speaker 1: shepherd is probably much more a colloquial term before a
[31:17] Speaker 1: lot of our language about various breeds became more standardized.
[31:24] Speaker 1: All right, Well, listener comments and feedback now, and we
[31:27] Speaker 1: have an email from Ken who riots was traveling so
[31:31] Speaker 1: couldn't send this sooner. The Counterspy episode The Case of
[31:34] Speaker 1: the Poison Peddler is the latest examples of shows taking
[31:39] Speaker 1: on issues in the forties and fifties that still exists today.
[31:44] Speaker 1: That particular episode takes on individuals in the community recruiting
[31:48] Speaker 1: and warping the minds of young people with hatred towards others,
[31:52] Speaker 1: something we see happening today. Previous episodes of Counterspy, The
[31:56] Speaker 1: Silent Men, The Man Called X, and Dangers a Sign
[32:00] Speaker 1: and also have had our heroes taking on issues of
[32:02] Speaker 1: that time period that either still exist or have raised
[32:05] Speaker 1: their head again in modern times. You should consider pointing
[32:08] Speaker 1: that out in your commentaries in the future. In addition
[32:12] Speaker 1: to these being good stories, I enjoy contrasting the way
[32:16] Speaker 1: life existed seventy to eighty years ago with the different
[32:19] Speaker 1: and in my opinion, better use of language, and how
[32:22] Speaker 1: the issues of the time have changed or not. Thank
[32:25] Speaker 1: you for providing us this entertainment, Ken Well, thank you
[32:29] Speaker 1: so much, Kin, and I guess I would also mention
[32:34] Speaker 1: a couple of the programs that The Adventures of Superman
[32:39] Speaker 1: with their series on intolerance going on for about two
[32:44] Speaker 1: hundred and three hundred episodes, and then you actually had
[32:48] Speaker 1: another Phillips Lord series that we played that's not particularly
[32:53] Speaker 1: well remembered, particularly when compared to Counterspy, District Attorney, and Gangbusters,
[33:02] Speaker 1: but he had a series called Treasury Agent, and actually
[33:06] Speaker 1: the first episode it's something like that now. It included
[33:12] Speaker 1: an original racist song that was written for the episode
[33:18] Speaker 1: that got stuck in my head, so that was a challenge,
[33:21] Speaker 1: but he was trying to address the issues. I do
[33:24] Speaker 1: think it's always a fine line in terms of my commentary,
[33:29] Speaker 1: because where I will try to explain something is where
[33:36] Speaker 1: it might be unclear to some listeners, like this is
[33:40] Speaker 1: actually relevant to our times, but it's a bit more obscure,
[33:45] Speaker 1: so I need to bring this out a bit and
[33:48] Speaker 1: research and come up with the contexts. But sometimes an
[33:53] Speaker 1: old time radio program is speaking to events in our
[34:01] Speaker 1: time and it is plain, and in those cases I
[34:05] Speaker 1: tend to really lean in more towards a less is
[34:11] Speaker 1: more approach, because there is a danger where you can
[34:16] Speaker 1: become really on the nose and can almost militate against
[34:22] Speaker 1: the point by aggressively pointing out and being like get it,
[34:27] Speaker 1: get it, which I think can end up alienating people
[34:31] Speaker 1: and make them feeling like you're using the show as
[34:36] Speaker 1: a platform to express your own opinion. So I tend
[34:41] Speaker 1: to think it's best just to let the programs speak
[34:44] Speaker 1: for themselves on those sort of points. But I do
[34:47] Speaker 1: appreciate your comment. Thank you so much. Can I really
[34:51] Speaker 1: appreciate it? Well, now it's time to think. Our Patreon supporter.
[34:55] Speaker 8: Of the day.
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[35:02] Speaker 1: currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of
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[35:11] Speaker 1: for today. We will be back next Saturday with another
[35:16] Speaker 1: episode of Counterspot. But join us back here on the
[35:21] Speaker 1: Great Detectives of Old Time Radio on Monday for the
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