Originally broadcast on CBS, 19 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1951–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 59
- Genre
- noir
William Gargan, who also played the better known television (and radio) detective Martin Kane, was the voice of New York eye Barrie Craig while Ralph Bell portrayed his associate, Lt. Craig's office was on Madison Avenue and his adventures were fairly standard PI fare.
1955 · 91954 · 171953 · 101952 · 9
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 19 of 45Listenable · 22 of 45Rough but complete · 4 of 45
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Barrie_Craig_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
29 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. Fatal Appointment · 16 Jan 1952
- 2. The Deadly Fight · 23 Jan 1952
- 3. A Very Odd Job · 30 Jan 1952
Two Dead Men
23 Jun 1955 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 June 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Sucker Bait
9 Jun 1955 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 June 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Visitor at Midnight
12 May 1955 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 12 May 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Never Murder a Mummy
5 May 1955 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 5 May 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Corpse on the Town
9 Mar 1955 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 March 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Sweet Larceny
2 Mar 1955 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 2 March 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Target
16 Feb 1955 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 February 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Nobody Lives There Anymore
9 Feb 1955 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 February 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
19 Jul 1953
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 19 Jul 1953.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 19 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 19 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 19 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1951–1955
Other series the network carried while Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was on the air.
Same seasons
noir on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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