Adam Graham
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259 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard yesterday
Adam Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hard to imagine what 1962's show sounded like.
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Judging from the 1959 product.
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Well, thanks for the comment, Jeff.
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And I think you're right that the show quality declined.
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And you can't just say that it was the show length.
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That was part of it.
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I think you had a couple of things that were going on.
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The big thing is the writing.
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And this is a point about the Johnny Dollar serials, is that they don't get enough credit.
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But throughout the serial run, you had most of the scripts being written by E. Jack Newman as John Dawson, or by Les Crutchfield.
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Now, we talked about how Crutchfield was a mainstay of one of the greatest radio shows of all time and greatest radio television franchises of all time, Gunsmoke.
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E. Jack Newman was one of the best mystery writers on radio.
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He won an Edgar Award for Best Written Radio Play in 1953, and he won another Edgar Award in the 70s.
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He'd also get a Writers Guild of America Award going to 1990.
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So these two were incredibly talented writers.
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some of the best in the business.
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They were joined by Robert Reif, who, of course, had a long history, most notably on Dangerous Assignment, but was getting serious about starting a career in academia.
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and became this key part of the LA literary community.
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Probably the least experienced person to write for the series was Tony Barrett, who was a veteran radio actor, but hadn't really done any writing, but really wanted to transition his career into that sort of behind-the-mic and behind-the-camera approach.
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But Barrett's serials were solid, and he had good, solid writing instincts, which would serve him well on many series, including being the creator of the Mod Squad.
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