Butchers and Protection Racket
About This Broadcast
Diamond poses as a butcher to break up an extortion ring squeezing neighborhood shopkeepers.
This Richard Diamond, Private Detective broadcast aired on January 7, 1950. It is listed as episode 37 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Dick Powell, Virginia Gregg, Ed Begley, Wilms Herbert, and Nestor Paiva. Other credited names include Blake Edwards as director, Blake Edwards as writer, and Edward King as announcer.
The surviving recording runs about 29 minutes.
Dick Powell stars as the quick-witted private eye Richard Diamond, whose murder cases combine hard-boiled detective plotting with humor, romance, and Diamond's habit of ending adventures at the piano.
Listeners can expect mystery, crime, and drama, episodic drama in format, and humorous, lighthearted, and suspenseful in tone.
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Blake Edwards
Dick Powell
Virginia Gregg