Adam Graham

Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

This is your host, Adam Graham.

In a moment, we're going to bring you our 5,000th episode special.

But first, I want to encourage you, if you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software.

Finding a special to celebrate 5,000 episodes is a bit of a challenge, particularly with those that we played in the past, but I hope today's episode rises to that standard.

We're going to the Lux Radio Theater.

Original air date, February 14th, 1944, and the title is The Fallen Sparrow.

Welcome back.

Alas, we're missing the past interviews.

We're also missing the credits.

According to Radio Gold Index, in addition to the name players, this episode also featured Charles Seal, Charlotte Treadway, Ed Emerson, George Sorrell, Griff Barnett, Howard McNair, Jay Novello,

John McIntyre, Norman Field, and Rene Gussier.

Hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.

This is such a great episode.

As you get a story that blends this mystery element, and you do have that whole detective feature with the sort of...

personal what we would now call ptsd that kit is going through you're trying to unravel this web of intrigue while also trying to hold on to your own sanity and of course it's also interesting for what the object of this whole operation is

Typically, in a lot of World War II films, the stakes were big.

If it wasn't going to turn the whole outcome of the war, it was going to be such a major factor.

You know, you have Casablanca, and the center of that is how important it is that Victor Laszlo...

make it out of Casablanca for the Allies.