Matthew Slade
"In my job the hours are odd so are the circumstances and the people that I meet. You can even call some of them 'dangerous.' My calling card reads Matthew Slade: Private Investigator."
Mathew Slade: Private Investigator was a featured, half-hour mystery presentation by The Pacifica Players of Pacifica Radio of Berkeley, California and the Pacifica Foundation of North Hollywood, California. It premiered as a Starlight Mystery Theater production on July 5, 1964 over Pacifica Radio affiliate stations. Initially announced for alternating Sundays, the program soon began airing in erratic installments from August through November of 1964.
Starring William Wintersole as Mathew Slade, the program was billed as a radio mystery revival series from the outset, presented in recognition of the hundreds of popular detective mysteries that had aired throughout The Golden Age of Radio. At least twelve of the Mathew Slade: Private Investigator installments from Starlight Mystery Theater were selected by The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) for transcription and rebroadcast to both the Armed Forces Network (AFN) in Europe in 1966 and The Far East Network (FEN) in 1968.
MATTHEW SLADE is a San Francisco investigator and his secretary, Lorretta Jones, is referred to by all as "Jonesy." Slade's local pal in the Homicide Bureau, Sgt. Sid Donelli, appears in nearly all episodes. Slade charges clients "$200 a day plus expenses", drives a Continental, and ends up in some rather exotic adventures. In one program, a model named Clover Shannon is killed by one of 12 members of an exclusive "Bachelor's Club". In another, Slade is tortured by a crazed German scientist, who has imprisoned Slade in his castle near Lake Tahoe.
The Mathew Slade: Private Investigator Canon
There appear to have been at least thirteen scripts in the original canon of Mathew Slade: Private Investigator, as follows (in alphabetical order):
* A Case of Murder
* A Sweet Scent of Mystery
* The Avarice Heir (MISSING)
* Bachelor's Club, The
* Day of the Phoenix Part 1
* Day of the Phoenix Part 2
* Day of the Phoenix Part 3 (MISSING)
* Find Julie Raydon
* The Incredible Dr Lintz
* Passage to Tangiers
* Pattern for A Frame
* The Secret Grey Man
* Who Killed My Pen Pal?
Starring William Wintersol as Matthew Slade
Also starring Sylvia Wheeler as Jonesy
and Norman Belkin as Donelli
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My copies of these are of varying quality, with many taken from AFRTS rebroadcasts.. If anyone has better (or especially, if you have the two missing episodes), please post them!
All eleven existing files in one RAR:
Bob
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No probs. Let me know what you think.
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In the words of my granddaughter:
"That's much more betterer."
Thanks.
Thanks Bob. I have removed the background hiss from 'A Case of Murder' & it sounds great. Shame about Phoenix 3. If I remember correctly some of these stories were taken from the books by Henry Kane. I'll do a bit of investigating and see if Phoenix was from one of his books,,, good to know how it concludes. Thanks
Can you upload the corrected copy of "A Case of Murder"? I'd love to upgrade my collection.