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Phyl Coe

Heard
1936
Episodes
12

The Phyl Coe Mysteries was a syndicated radio series that came out in 1936, with the lead character's name designed to reflect the sponsor, Philco Radio Tubes. PHYL (short for Phyllis) COE is described as the "beautiful girl detective". She was a private investigator who was smart, aggressive, and a "take-charge" lady. In one episode where a magician is shot on stage, Phyl, who is attending the performance, with her boy friend, leaps to the stage, barks orders to theatre personnel, and solves the crime before the cops even get there. In other mysteries, she identifies the thief of a famous painting, solves the mystery involving a new death-ray gun, and solves a murder aboard an aeroplane.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. 14m40s The Case of the Dead Magician

    · No. 1 · 15 min

  2. 14m40s The Case of the Missing Masterpiece

    · No. 2 · 15 min

  3. 13m40s Mystery of the Death Ray Tube

    · No. 3 · 14 min

  4. 14m44s Murder in the Sky

    · No. 4 · 15 min

  5. 14m21s Murder on the High Seas

    · No. 5 · 14 min

  6. 14m51s The Double X Mystery

    · No. 6 · 15 min

  7. 14m37s Last Will and Testament

    · No. 7 · 15 min

  8. 14m35s The Case of the Stolen Sable

    · No. 8 · 15 min

  9. 14m19s The Case of the Murdered Senator

    · No. 9 · 14 min

  10. 14m31s The Case of the Laughing Ghost

    · No. 10 · 15 min

  11. 14m10s The Case of the Fallen Star

    · No. 11 · 14 min

  12. 14m01s The Jagged Rock Mystery

    · No. 12 · 14 min

Where it comes from 2

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Phyl Coe

    Old Time Radio · 10 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  2. Phyl Coe Page 2

    Old Time Radio · 2 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

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