A New York private-eye drama centered on Barrie Craig, a capable independent detective played by William Gargan, who takes on murder, fraud, and other criminal cases.

NBC private-eye drama starring William Gargan as Madison Avenue investigator Barrie Craig. The series was usually sustaining, with occasional sponsors, and shifted production from New York to Hollywood late in the run.

The run breaks into several distinct periods: NBC New York production (October 3, 1951 to 1954) on NBC Radio Network and NBC Hollywood production (1954 to June 30, 1955) on NBC Radio Network.

Names that turn up again and again in the surviving run include William Gargan (performer), Don Pardo (announcer), John Roeburt (writer), Himan Brown (director and performer), Louis Vittes (writer and performer), Arthur Jacobson (director), and Edward King (announcer and director).

Across its run, the surviving broadcasts are tied to NBC Radio Network.

The stories often return to private investigation and detective work, murder, homicide and suspicious death, fraud, theft, blackmail and deception, money, valuables and financial motive, marriage, family and domestic conflict, and show business, media and public spectacle.

The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes Postwar private-eye radio cycle, Sustaining network crime drama, Network production shift from New York to Hollywood, and Crime drama in the late network-radio era.

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