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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Slash Radio Detectives. We're one of our two thousand friends. This is the
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last episode to Let George Do It. It's definitely unique. The previous episode
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of Let George Do It we played on Monday, was from November seventeenth of
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nineteen fifty two. This one is from some twenty two months later, and
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it was originally broadcast September twenty seventh, nineteen fifty four. Now I will
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not attempt to list all ninety seven episodes that were aired between this program and
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and the previous one. The Digital Delhi Digital delhiftp dot com has the most
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complete log of Let George Do It, and most of those episode names are
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unknown. The only one they were able to confirm was from March the second
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of nineteen fifty three, and the title of that was the pink Hurst,
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which was of course a todd of another episode that was previously done of Let
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George Do It. It does seem to me probable that Bob Bailey left at
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some point, and they may even have begun airing some of the episodes that
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were set up for syndication in Canada on the Harry Goodman label. But point
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Olan Soul took over in the role of George Valentheim with an entirely different sponsor.
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Olan Soul is probably best known as the voice of Batman as an animated
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character. So if you grew up during the sixties and seventies and you watched
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The Batman Superman Hour in the late sixties, or the super Friends and the
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seventies into the early or he saw some of the Batman's Scooby doo A crossovers
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in the seventies, you were entertained by Olin Soul. In fact, the
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only super Friends franchises he didn't voice Batman in, or the legendary Superpower Show
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and Galactic Guardians from about eighty four and eighty five. And probably the one
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place I remember him most on television is from some of his appearances in Dragnet.
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If you've seen some of the nineteen fifties programs, he had a recurring
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role as Ray Pinker from the Crime Lab, and in the sixties the first
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couple of seasons he had a few appearances as Ray Murray, also from the
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Crime Lab, kind of a what Dennis at the Digital BELLI described as a
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welterweight top character but actually bantamweight. Excuse me, but his voice acting packed
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a punch. Well, let's go ahead and take a listen to it.
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It's time now for today's episode. I'll let George do it. The Ghost
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of Ireland. Betty First, no notice. Danger is my stock and trade.
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If the job's too tough for you to handle, you better job for
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adventure of George Valentine, the Ghost of Ireland. Betty dear mister Valentine.
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Valentine, huh, dear mister Valentine, I live in an enormous rambling house
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built like an Italian villa. That's funny. What else did she write?
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What was the best of it? Crying? It's crying, That's what it
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is. It's trying. I know it's crying. That's where is it?
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It's crying. I know it's crying. I know it's Oh Christine, for
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heaven says, who are you going in such a hurry? Say I'm sorry,
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but I just listen. Yes, my dear Christine, you've had such
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a long trip. I thought you were going to lie down and rest a
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while. Did you hear something, my dear, No, No, I
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didn't hear anything. Mister Valentine. Oh is he? Why were you writing
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him a letter, mister Daddy about the hall? Here's a lot of you
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didn't finish. Oh oh that, but I did finish another one. That
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one blotted. Yes, I've already written mister Valentine. He's he's just a
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friend of mine. Oh it's lonely here, and I thought perhaps he might
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like to call on me. Now, you run along and get your rest.
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There's nothing to be afraid of in the old place. You may hear
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a shutter banging once in a while, but that's all. That's absolutely all,
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all right, miss Daddy. Sorry, my imagination seems to I'm sorry.
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I've let's daddy, I got the letter you wrote to me, all
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right, but please please don't talk so loud. Mister Valentine. Is he
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a miss brupof course, Oh lovely old room. Christine is a sleeve.
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I don't want to disturb her. That's Christine O'Casey. Yes, she just
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got here, you know, from Canada. She's been there since before her
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aunt's death several months ago. Just sit down, thanks, miss Daddy.
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But I'm not sure we're staying. Oh but I have wrote. Yes,
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you wrote in your letter that you wanted a man investigated the Professor E.
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L. Gifford from Denver. Yes, that's right, Professor Gifford. You
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sounded as though you wanted us to well get something on her. Oh now
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you must understanding yet does I gather all you suspect about is Professor Gifford?
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Is it be liable to buy this house? Yes, yes, that's just
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it. You see, mister Eustace, the red estate man, has received
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this author from day. Yes, I know. I've already talked to mister
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Eustace, and I find he's also the executor of a state for one Miss
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Betty of Casey, who used to own the house. Yes, for Betty,
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the one who died. That's Christine's aunt. And I find you don't
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even have anything to do with the sale of this house. Miss Daddy,
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you don't even own it, any part of it? No, no,
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I don't. But I was Betty o Casey's companion for more than twenty years.
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Mister Valentine, Sure, I understand she actually pretty well taken care of,
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right, Only the house wanted the principal beneficiary Christine, a relative,
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and it's christine desire to sell. According to mister Eustace, that's why she's
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here to speed up a sale, any sale. Okay, But miss Daddy,
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what do you have against this professor? Why shouldn't he buy the house?
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Why should you want to hire me to interfere with any possible sale?
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The professor, he's not the right not the right type. The house is
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Christine. But what does she say having to talk to her about it?
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Christine isn't well, she's not sympathetic to the house. Wow, she's not
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sympathetic. She doesn't understand. She's young and cynical, and this isn't just
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a usual house. Mister Valentine, Well, I grant you it's pretty old,
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valuable maybe, but not so easy to get rid of. We looked
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all over for this house years ago. It was just what Ireland Betty wanted.
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It made her so healthy. In a minute, who Betty, you're
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casey Ireland Betty. Oh, I know it does make her sound rather like
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an apple woman, but it was nickname. Many people called her that,
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Ireland Betty maybe, but it sounds more than me like the name of a
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racehorse. Oh. She would have loved to hear you say that she owned
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some horses. One. She was so enthusiastic, so interested in in everything,
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and she was no more recently Irish than I am. But she called
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herself second cousin to a Leaprica. Sounds like quite a woman up pixy,
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miss Brooks. Not a woman not at all like her niece. A little
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modern realist, the unbeliever, unbeliever in Whackman's Daddy, lapcas Well, unbeliever
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in this house for onting, you'll have to be more specific. What is
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her about this placements daddy? That you don't want it sold? Because that
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is the idea, isn't it? You don't want anyone else living here?
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Why, mister Valentine, Ireland Betty and I became great believers in Well,
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she looked all over to find this house because this house was supposed to have
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I'm sorry, mister Valentine, then I've troubled you. You're too young yourself,
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and a good deal more honest than I thought you would be. Why
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now, wait a minute? Oh excuse me, sorry minute, how on
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earth did you get in? Here was the key? Natural name? Greetings,
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my dear miss Daddy. You haven't changed a bit. Where did you
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get her nickel of my hand? Oh? This it won't bye? Two
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tape measures? See if the space for a piano in the parlor besides my
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recording instruments. And excuse me, miss Daddy, but is this this is
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the guy? That guy? Professor Gibbon, Yesaline Brooks, how do you
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do? Mister Valentine was just leaving no what no, no, I wasn't
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by anymore. I was just going to say, I'd like to stick around
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for a while. Oh, mister v you couldn't help me hold one end
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of the tape measure. Mister Valentine, come along. I am sorry,
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I'm intruded in miss Daddy, but I was to meet Eustless here he gave
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me the key. Oh Ustless, Miss the do come along with Valentine,
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Bryan Us and an almost empty piece of real estate. Professor Gifford, what's
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your business? Professor my own happiness. Mister Valentine, what's your Now?
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What I meant was, what are you a professor of nothing? Ah?
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The sort of nothing that is something, the sort of something that is nothing
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until it is seen or heard by man, until man like myself, is
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willing to admit that he sees what he can't understand, what no one understand.
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Huh that makes as much sense as a scramble jigsaw puzzle. Oh,
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it's quite simple. I'm a student of psychic research, supernatural being. Oh
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brother, no, not the only fold blast, mister Valentine. Okay,
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I'm not laughing. You believe in gold, so did Ireland. Betty so
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does this, Yes, most of them all, So that's why you're buying
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it. Places infested with ghosts. Not every house has a ghost, you
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know anymore that it has good plumbing. But that's why Betty bought it originally.
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Can a ghost reported off and on? Past hundred years? Shall we
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rejoin the ladies? Yeah? Yeah, I'm getting scared. I almost had
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this house once before, Valentine, Ireland Betty rather had her cap set for
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me. She did not. Yes, I would have had it for nothing
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then if it hadn't been for her bodyguard here. Will you throw him out
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of here? Or do I have to no sense of hum has had Doughty?
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All right? Better because it's true Ireland. Betty pursued me like the
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beautiful banshee that she was. She came galloping at me. I said,
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never mind, mister Bell, and that's for humors. Daddy, quiet,
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listen, don't move anyone. That's what it sounds like. I never't know.
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Cry. Yes, that's what it is. Come on, got it
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at both of Yeah? Sure, sure it's crying, all right, but
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that's not my ghosts. That's his voice. It crippy, like my foe.
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You're all right now. I founder just lying there on the stone outside
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her ends window there in the suncond gardens us. Yes, that's right,
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whimpering, almost unconscious. She'd had a terrible fall. I was coming up
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by the side entrance. You see what makes you think she just had a
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fall? Christine? What happened? Can you tell me? Did you fall?
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No? No, I didn't the tennis? What was it? I
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don't know what happened with daddy. Oh, I'm here, George. She's
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just woozing it. Ray. Did you see the ghost? Christine? No?
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Professor for the love of mine. Oh no, I didn't. I
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didn't. I tell you there's no such thing as ghost. It's all your
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imaginations. I saw the ghost for myself the night Shurant died. Perhaps even
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she saw it over the lawn. By this summer, how are you talking
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about who saw what? When I wasn't here. You never told me ghost?
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Nothing to upset yourself over. And I'm sure is doughty unless she cares
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to lie, will admit the chi too saw What if I did? What
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if I did see it? It doesn't have anything to do with this.
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It doesn't. It got like nine times and all knocked down by a ghost.
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All right, now, come on, come on, somebody. And
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she just noticed where you were found Christine, the stone floor outside your aunt
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window, Christine, exactly where you were. That's where you're on where she
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died the night that he saw the ghost. Coincident. Sure, as you
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new Pream Recipe collection right away. Now back to George Valentine. This don't
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you hear this? Books? Where are you? Where did you go?
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Am? I just went back and beds beginning the mine with the men quiet
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wowing. I listen this. Huh there is my imagination at word? Oh
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night, down again? Put this on your farm. My farad's all right.
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Doctor said he'd be out later to take it. You've been pretty sick.
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I've in Canada, hadn't you? Yes, And I'm tired, and
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I'm my aunt had asthma? You know, did she? But that wasn't
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what she died of, was it? Well? Sort of, that's what
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the doctor wrote me. I wasn't here, you know. We've been having
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a fight and she had guests for the weekend, so I just got in
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my car and drove off. See that window there, French doors. There's
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no guardrail outside it. He thought she must have opened the doors trying to
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get more air. She was having one of her attacks. Wow, she
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fell to the stone below. They found in the next morning. Only now
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these people talk about a ghost. You don't suppose she opened the window and
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saw it out to herself? Stop it not you too? Why did you
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get hurt? Did you follow the window too? No? I was out
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there and I took them still. Really, that's all right right? Why
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don't you want to talk about it to the others? What is it about
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this house that upsets you. So everything aboutom this book I hated. I've
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always hated it. My aunt and I used to fight about it. She
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was so wonderful. What would she take up with those fads, those crazy
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people, those crazy superstitions, that awful professor Giffert to you by chasing after
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trying to impress all is talk about ectoplasm and manifestations, And you blame me,
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Christina. I don't believe in such things any more than you do.
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But I would blame you if you kept too much to yourself, if you
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attributed certain things to your own imagination just because you've been sick and then tired
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and upset. You mean, I mean what you heard when I was still
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in the kitchen. I mean why you've come back here, and what you
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may have seen, and what you suspect about these people about your aunt's death.
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I don't really know. Is this to Valentine going to stay here?
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Here's Christine? Where is he now? He'll be close, He'll be right
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here, won't he has? Of course, he's just just chatting with missus
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Dowdy. He's probably showing him around the place. Armatista, Suppose you tell
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me the truth about what you saw that night. Well, I, well,
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my room is third story. I've been reading in bed. There's been
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a good deal of talk at dinner about the the ghost being the proper time
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of year for appearance and all. Naturally I tried to be tolerant, but
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well, perhaps I did watch a little You see, it's supposed to appear
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just momentarily out back by the summer house, moving slowly and then sort of
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floating away. And did it. But for heaven's sake, it didn't.
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Actually I didn't hear anything, and certainly whatever it was had no substance.
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Nobody Actually the next morning I didn't say anything. Why should I effect of
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all the talk a trick of the imagination. Of course, you'd have been
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laughed at. You don't believe in ghosts. What I do is Eustace.
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I believe in the kind of ghost that can be tricked up by a human
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being. And maybe it's being tricked up again. George, I sneaked out
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on of Christine's shoes. The heel hears torn off. Yeah, that's where
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she fell. Stone be for the Suthern garden. But if you overhang there
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start George Luke shut out itself. Stone steps here have mud on the side,
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roses had been watered, and mud on Christine's shoes. But if she
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came down here, she would have been on the path. Hold, yeah,
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here we are. I could feel a footprint where she stepped off the
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path at the top of the steps. What's the one, all right?
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And that must have been how she tripped it down town her. Yeah,
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they can't hear us, Angel, but they willably go back. So well,
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it's uh pubbly place, all right. They'll run down maybe, but
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if the garden's out here, we're fixed up. I'm sure they shut her
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going quick, shut her. I am sure sure that's what it was we
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heard. I'm all right, you go on get up there and find out
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squiet. But George from Abby, it's so dark. I looked just like
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Christine must have been been. I'd never find anybody up there. There's nobody
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in this house, but ghost, didn't you know? Well, Angel,
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we're going to catch one before the ghost succeeds at murder. Well, yes,
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mister Valentine, I guess that's where I lost my heel, where I
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tripped on it. Yeah, you were coming along the path, Christine.
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He stepped off it tripped and rolled down the stone steps. Yes, you
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were out here walking with the summer house, but you didn't want anybody to
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know. See it was used to Who found you? What happened? You
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see him coming and run for the house. Yes, that's right, I
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ran. Only why did you step off the path? Well, there was
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a shovel or a rake or something lying across the path. Oh, I
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get it, it's not there now. I didn't look, mister Valentine.
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I did suspect something for a long time, but I didn't know what I
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was looking for. Oh why, or whether you could find anything back here
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that would show you how the ghost worked that night your aunt died. That's
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what I mean, whimpering crying ghosts, the thing with no substance that's supposed
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to appear and then float away. Aunt Betty told me where she expected to
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see it, mister Valentine. That rising to the bait. Already, mister
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Valentine, you're here here right in front of him, is daddy. I
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got to see you alone. Not I've got to Anything you have to say
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you can say right in front of her. Only say it's fast. It's
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about the ghost. I know it's about the ghost. Oh, it was
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only to impress and Gifford. You've got to realize that it wasn't to scare
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anybody. And that's what you're trying to say. I'm smart enough to figure
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that Ireland. Betty didn't fall from her window out of fright on seeing the
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ghost. She wasn't the type. So if it was you who played the
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ghost that night, lady, you know that's not what I'm trying to say.
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It was Iron and Betty. It was she herself who did it.
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Yes she did. Oh I know it sounds crazy, but she had too.
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She'd never been able to locate the ghost in the house, and she
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had bragged, and she didn't want Professor Gifford to be disappointed. That's why
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I didn't want him to get the house. He might have found out.
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Hey, now slow down. All your claiming as there isn't any ghost is
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that it there never has been one in this house. Only why then mister
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Valentine listened to me, He's better it was south here instead of being her
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room. You think she was mirding? Of course, I know she died
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before she ever got back to her room, and she was probably running just
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like Christine. Here was yes, he's the only if that's the case.
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Okay, okay, I'll take care of everything. Come on, Christine,
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head back to the house. See you later, Ms Daddy. Whole thing's
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pretty simple, I guess, isn't it. I don't understand at all any
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of it, don't you? You understand a good deal about the ghost the
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aunt that he told me? Sure, I was supposed to look. But
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nobody says they've ever heard it except you, the whimpering the crime? Christine?
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Were you here in the garden that night with your aunt? Is that
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when you thought you heard the crime? No? No, I've really heard
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it. Someone else? Were you hiding out here? Did you pretend to
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leave for Canada and then come back and hide and scare? Oh? Sure
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you don't believe in ghosts. You knew the little pixie'd be playing the part,
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so she was scared and ran just like you did down the path.
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Mister Valentine. Stop it. You don't understand. What's the matter. You're
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afraid to walk down this path? They go trip on something again, a
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rake that you might see when you're running. Only it's so dark I can't
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even see your hand in front of your face. No, it wasn't a
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rake. I don't know what it was. I know what it was,
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young lady. It wasn't anything, Yes it was. You're mixing me up,
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but I know there was, Christine, I said, some crimes are
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simple. They are after they've happened, because the guilty conscience does terrible,
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horrible things like stumbling over something. There isn't even there except a memory.
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But what was there when you made your old hand fall a rake, string,
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a wire? No, No, I didn't do it. I didn't
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then go on walk perfect accident, not so perfect a few months after it.
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When you get so scared, you get sick, so guilty, even
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try to kill someone else, nervous little old miss Dowdy because she's going to
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be suspicious. I didn't. I didn't push that shutter. Sure, go
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on, say it filled me in. I know it was you, all
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right, sister. You were the only one who thought Miss Dowdy was out
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walking with me. Nobody would have tried to kill Brooksy, but just by
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accident, Brooksy had told you that Dowdy and I were walking together. Stop
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stop it. I never believed it. They all did, but I never
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believed it. Crying, I don't hear anything, you can quick bring a
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woman crying. If it's not a real person, one of those others has
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to be the ghost. Go to the house. Yeah, yeah, you
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do hear something, don't you, Christine. You're the only one who does,
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the unbeliever, and yet the only one who's heard anything all evening or
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ever. But hasn't it occurred to you? There never was a ghost in
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that's what's known as getting a confession the hard way. Oh, the poor
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girl's an absolute greg poor girl. She killed her aunt n she Ireland petty
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second cousin to electric gun. There's the one I'd like to have known.
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Yeah, the Irish believe in anything, Oh, Brooksy, there is one
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to lie to them. You know when I told you to go back in
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the house there, when I ask you to make some noises to help me
31:48
get the story out of the girl, Well, I submit any noises?
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H oh? I mean first there was a police on the phone, and
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then then mister used to skip following me. I mean you didn't thanks,
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did did you? You didn't hear anything? Did you whimpering or cry?
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No? Angel, No, of course not. No, I didn't hear
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anything. It was just just a new girl's imagination. That's all. Tonight's
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Soleah as George, and tonight Lillian Byatt appeared as Brooksi. Let George Do
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It is written by David Victor and Jackson Gillis and directed by J. C.
33:13
Lewis. Also heard in Tonight's cast where Jean Bates as Christine, Lance
33:17
Rabanola's Dowdy, Benny Reuben as Gifford, and Howard Culver as ust Is.
33:21
The music was composed and presented by George Wright. Tonight's performance concludes this current
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series, we hope you have enjoyed it. Your announcer has been George Cowel,
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welcome back. Somewhat spoke in to Let George do It. I should
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note that this episode was previously broadcast, even though we didn't hear it on
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this particular series, just because the original episode with Bob Bailey is missing,
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but it was originally broadcast March the twentieth of nineteen fifty, and you can
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notice that by Jackson Gillis's name on the scrap. By this time, Jackson
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Gillis had moved on to television, which was definitely paying a lot more,
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but the producers have let George do it. You know, you still had
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the script, so reuse definitely a good option. And perhaps that's why so
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many of the traditional titles we're ones that we have in the logs were ones
35:16
that were used previously that we're used previously, like the pink Hurst, the
35:21
house that Jack built, the motif is Murder, and Laura's House all were
35:28
funds that are traditionally ascribed to these, you know, last ninety some episodes
35:34
that are missing, even though we don't have any logs to back it up.
35:37
And it makes sense because reusing scripts is economical. And we also heard
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a new Brooksie and Lillian Biath though the way that they meet it sound it
35:49
sounds like she was joining the cast to fill in for this last episode for
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whoever been playing Brooksie, and again we don't know it. This late part
35:59
of the Golden Age radio, particularly with this show is just not very well
36:02
documented at all. One other piece of trivia I had when the Digital Deli
36:09
was talking about the relative size of Olan Sulea was mentioned also in reference to
36:15
Bob Bailey, who, despite his great voice, just did not make you
36:21
know, was not seen as the physically imposing enough character to be able to
36:27
carry the act onto television. Kind of the opposite of the problem that William
36:31
Conrad ran into on gun Smoke, where he was thought to be too fat.
36:38
But a terrific voice from both actors that you know, you obviously didn't
36:43
think. Now, this guy's just a little to you know, you didn't
36:45
think anything from the voice. You know, Olan Soul of course, for
36:50
many years a voice of Batman, and it called to mind Kevin Conroy,
36:53
who is kind of the modern voice most associated with Batman from his years on
37:00
the Batman animated series as well as on the Justice League series. And he
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also, you know, it's funny, he has the exact same thing.
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It looks very you know, very skinny. You would not think, you
37:15
know, this is the guy who's an action hero. But he's got the
37:19
ability and he's got that voice quality that he's just able to really sell you
37:23
on Batman. So voice acting it really is. It's I think, a
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wonderful way where people are able to as actors to overcome some of the superficiality
37:37
that visual media often introduces. Well, now we turn to listener comments and
37:43
feedback, and I received one regarding episode zero eight nine three, Let Georgia
37:47
do at the dead of Night. I heard that, and Justin Rits,
37:51
I heard this on another old time radio podcast, but it had a different
37:54
name, A Key to Murder. Do you know this episode had any alternate
37:59
title or the episode mislabeled? Well, Justin, as far as I can
38:05
tell, it was mislabeled. Again, I do on shows where the digital
38:09
della FTP dot com where they have along, I kind of used that as
38:15
definitive because they do a lot of They do a lot of researches to two
38:19
personal operations, but when they research a show, they do their absolute best.
38:23
And yeah, the title we have for that is correct. Also,
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we received a couple of comments on our little sway into detective science fiction airing
38:38
an episode of X minus one but also really was a detective story in sci
38:45
fi setting. Joan emails and I enjoyed X minus one protective memetry mimicry very
38:51
interesting. I like slapstick comedy, so I could just imagine him walking into
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a tree or bouncing off one. I could just see it happening. I
38:59
like part about his rubbers stuck in the mud and his comment about them and
39:05
how much women will pay for mud bass while he was walking through it.
39:07
If he didn't watch it himself, he could be stuck in the mud along
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with his rubbers. This is really a comedy. Thank you for sharing this
39:15
with us. It is a gym and I played it a few times now.
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I believe I found a new series to listen to. If they're all
39:21
like this one, well, thanks so much for your comment. Jone.
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And it definitely had that comedic element going for it. It was not approp
39:31
It was not a episode that took itself seriously. I will say that not
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all episodes of X Minush one or its companion series to Max Dimension X all
39:45
that are as lighthearted as that. Certainly a lot of the it was.
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It's classic science fiction, so there's a lot of weird situations. But there
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was also at that time, you know, scerns about the future of humanity
40:02
and Zero Hour. Of course, is one of their very early scripts,
40:09
and there's not a whole lot of humor in that, but there are some
40:13
funny episodes and it's one that's definitely worth listening. And when I have the
40:19
opportunity on the premium side, because for the both the premium side and APP
40:23
I try to play episodes of our stars in programs that aren't detective shows,
40:34
so you can kind of see their the depths of their talent. And so
40:38
when I happen across an X minus one or Dimension X with one of our
40:45
actors in it, I definitely have a strong tendency and desire to want to
40:51
play that for you. Right, well, that will do it for today.
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We will be back tomorrow with Sherlock Holmes. This, of course,
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our last episode of Let George Do It. Really has been a wonderful series,
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a lot of variety, a lot of twist, a lot of turns.
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I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have, or even more
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than that. We will be back next Wednesday with the third and fourth part
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of next week's Johnny Doaller Mystery, which we'll have Bob Bailey back on Wednesday,
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and in the meantime, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, we'd
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really appreciate it if you'd rate the show on iTunes or about twenty six ratings
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Adam graham Son and off