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Secret Agent K-7 Returns
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- 1939
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SECRET AGENT K-7 RETURNS
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Before there was James Bond, before The Man Called X, and before Steve Mitchell took on a single Dangerous Assignment , there was Agent K-7. Secret Agent K-7 began on the radio in 1932 and made the leap into movies with Special Agent K-7. The original K-7 radio series is lost, but in 1939, a new transcribed syndicated series launched called, Secret Agent K-7 Returns. Secret Agent K-7 Returns was a series of seventy-eight fifteen minute spy stories. Secret Agent K-7 didn’t take part in most adventures. Rather, he introduced the stories of what other agents did. In early episodes, Secret Agent K-7 offered the stories as cautionary tales as what aggressor powers were doing to undermine piece. K-7’s role in the story was to explain how the preceding story had been a cautionary tale about what spies were doing to undermine world peace. He would also speak out against the dangers that spies posed to peace, and sought to discourage people from becoming involved in espionage with the same fervor as 1980s anti-drug campaigns. In later episodes, K-7 took a more active role, handing out assignments to the three agents who starred in the program and occasionally showing up to help with the capture of a bad guy. Perhaps, my biggest complaint with K-7 is that the voice acting was totally miscast. K-7 was supposed an international man of mystery and intrigue. Yet, the actor sounded more like a kindly high school principal. Beyond K-7, the series featured three…
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Secret Agent K-7 Returns
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Secret Agent K-7 Returns (Page 2)
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Secret Agent K-7 Returns (Page 3)
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Secret Agent K-7 Returns (Page 4)
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Secret Agent K-7 Returns(page 7)
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Secret Agent K-7 returns (Page 5)
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Secret Agent K-7 Returns(Page 6)
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