MISS DETECTIVES COLLECTION

OLD TIME RADIO - 2 CD - 78 mp3 - Total Playtime: 25:11:20

A collection of female detectives in the old time radio. Here some of the shows:

Candy Matson was the private eye star of Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209, an NBC West Coast show which first aired in March 1949 and was created by Monty Masters. He cast his wife, Natalie Parks, in the title role of this sassy, sexy PI. Her understated love interest, Lt. Ray Mallard, was played by Henry Leff while her assistant and best pal, aptly named Rembrandt Watson, was the voice of Jack Thomas.

Every show opened with a ringing telephone and our lady PI answering it with "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209" and then the organ swung into the theme song, "Candy". Each job took Candy from her apartment on Telegraph Hill into some actual location in San Francisco. The writers, overseen by Monty, worked plenty of real Bay Area locations into every plot.

Candy was bright, tough, and fearless. She used her pistol infrequently, but was unintimidated by bad guys, regardless of circumstances. Threats, assaults, and even bullets would usually produce a caustic, but clever, response for this blonde sleuth. She and Mallard were frequently working the same case, but she usually solved it first.

OTR experts generally agree that this show was the finest of all the female PIs. Although the show ran until May 1951, it never attracted a sponsor (although the first season's final episode ended with the announcement that "Candy Matson Is San Francisco's Most Popular Program").

The Phyl Coe Mysteries was a syndicated radio series that came out in 1936, with the lead character's name designed to reflect the sponsor, Philco Radio Tubes. PHYL (short for Phyllis) COE is described as the "beautiful girl detective". She was a private investigator who was smart, aggressive, and a "take-charge" lady. In one episode where a magician is shot on stage, Phyl, who is attending the performance, with her boy friend, leaps to the stage, barks orders to theatre personnel, and solves the crime before the cops even get there. In other mysteries, she identifies the thief of a famous painting, solves the mystery involving a new death-ray gun, and solves a murder aboard an aeroplane.

Mercedes McCambridge star as lawyer in Defense Attorney in defending the defenseless. She was born in Joliet, Illinois, the daughter of Irish American Catholic parents Marie (née Mahaffry) and John Patrick McCambridge. She graduated from Mundelein College in Chicago before embarking on a career.
She began her career as a radio actor during the 1940s while also performing on Broadway. Her radio work in this period included her portrayal of Rosemary Levy on Abie's Irish Rose and various characters on the radio series I Love A Mystery in both its West Coast and East Coast incarnations (most notably as "Charity Martin" in The Thing That Cries in the Night, "Nasha" and "Laura" in Bury Your Dead, Arizona, "Sunny Richards" in both The Million Dollar Curse and The Temple of Vampires and "Jack 'Jacqueline' Dempsey Ross" in The Battle of the Century). She frequently did feature roles on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and was an original cast member on The Guiding Light, before the Bauers took over as the central characters. She also starred in her own show, The Defense Attorney as Martha Ellis Bryant. 

Kitty Keene, Inc. was the only soap opera to have a private eye in the leading role (unless you want to count radio's Perry Mason). This series ran for four years, beginning in September 1937. It was sponsored by Dreft and was on CBS for one year and Mutual for the remaining three. Like most soaps, it was a 15-minute serial.

Through the years, at least three actresses played KITTY KEENE: Beverly Younger, Gail Henshaw and Fran Carlon. Day Keene shared the script writing responsibilities with Wally Norman. Kitty was an "ex-Follies gal" who started her own detective business, although since this was a soap, it took her umpteen weeks to solve each crime.

In the four surviving episodes, Kitty sounds tough but tender, with no clue to her age. However by the fourth year on the air, her grown daughter had given birth so this may also be radio's only grandmother detective. No pushover even then, Kitty berates a grand jury who almost exonerated a rackets boss, and gets an indictment.

SHOWS LIST

DISC 1
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep07-Ann Wants To Be An Air Hostess
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep08-Aunt Hattie Stows Away
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep09-Jacks Brother Tries To Help
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep10-Doc Heads A Smuggling Ring
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep11-Just Before The Hurricane
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep12-The Hurricane Hits
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep13-Is Jack Working For The Secret Service
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep14-Jack Needs The Secret Radio Frequency
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep15-The Secret Runway In The Everglades
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep16-Ann Meets Up With Jack
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep17-Pete Takes Off
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep18-Ann Is Lost In The Everglades
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep19-Zeb Makes A Parachute Jump
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep20-Jack Wonders Who Was In The Parachute
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep21-Ann Hides In The Plane
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep22-Pete Suspects Doc
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep23-The Foreigner Who Walks With A Limp
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep24-Overhearing A Message
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep25-Ann Is Discovered
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep26-Ann And Jack Prisoners
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep27-The Piece Of Paper
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep28-Is Doc Really The Head Of The Smuggling Ring
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep29-Jack Lands The Plane
Ann of the Airlanes 1935 ep30-Carp In The Ocean
Candy Matson 49-04-04 (Audition) The Donna Dunham Case
Candy Matson 49-07-07 The Cable Car Case
Candy Matson 49-09-23 The Fort Ord Story
Candy Matson 49-09-30 The Devil in the Deep Freeze
Candy Matson 49-12-10 Jack Frost
Candy Matson 49-12-17 Valley of the Moon
Candy Matson 49-12-27 NC9-8012
Candy Matson 50-02-07 Eric Spaulding Concert
Candy Matson 50-06-20 Symphony of Death
Candy Matson 50-08-29 The Movie Company
Candy Matson 50-09-12 The Egyptian Amulet
Candy Matson 50-11-26 San Juan Bautista
Candy Matson 51-04-29 Candys Last Case
Candy Matson 52-09-21 (Audition) The Fortune Teller
Carolyn Day, Detective - Audition 01 of 06
Carolyn Day, Detective - Audition 02 of 06
Carolyn Day, Detective - Audition 03 of 06
Carolyn Day, Detective - Audition 04 of 06
Carolyn Day, Detective - Audition 05 of 06
Carolyn Day, Detective - Audition 06 of 06
Kitty Keene Inc 39-01-20 Jill & Kitty At Hospital
Kitty Keene Inc 39-04-05 Jill On Trial Tomorrow
Kitty Keene Inc 39-04-08 Kitty Speaks to Grand Jury
Kitty Keene Inc xx-xx-xx No Word From Kitty in NYC
Meet Miss Sherlock 460707 - Case Of The Deadman's Chest
Meet Miss Sherlock 460912 - Wilmer & the Widow
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-09-07 (01) The Dead Magician
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-09-14 (02) Missing Masterpiece
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-09-21 (03) Mystery Of The Death Ray Tube
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-09-28 (04) Murder In The Sky
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-10-05 (05) Death Boards The Sea Serpent
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-10-12 (06) Double X Mystery
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-10-19 (07) Last Will and Testament
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-10-26 (08) Stolen Sables
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-11-02 (09) Who Murdered Senator Floyd
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-11-09 (10) Laughing Ghost
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-11-16 (11) The Fallen Star
Phyl Coe Mysteries 37-11-23 (12) Jagged Rock Mystery

DISC 2
Defense Attorney 510417 00 Audition as The Defense Rests - Joe Moriano
Defense Attorney 510810 06 Marcus Moriano
Defense Attorney 510817 07 Peter Lynch
Defense Attorney 510824 xx Grady Daniels
Defense Attorney 510831 08 Mike Tully
Defense Attorney 510914 10 Hot Rod Accident (aka-Client - Jim Leonard)
Defense Attorney 520313 36 Thomas Richards
Defense Attorney 520410 40 Joshua Masters
Defense Attorney 520417 41 Client Joseph Morelano
Defense Attorney 520828 60 George Baughman
Defense Attorney 520911 62 Jim Nelson
Defense Attorney 520918 63 Thomas Kennedy and Jethro Lester
Defense Attorney 521009 66 Edith Larkin
Lady in Blue 51-05-05
Lady in Blue 51-05-12
Murder Clinic 42-09-22 (10) The Scrap Of Lace