Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator

Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator

William Gargan as Barrie Craig
Genre	Detective drama
Running time	30 minutes
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Syndicates	NBC
Starring	William Gargan
Announcer	Don Pardo
Written by	Richard Leonard Peggy Blake
Directed by	Himan Brown Arthur Jacobson Andrew C. Love

Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a detective drama heard on NBC Radio from October 3, 1951 to June 30, 1955.[1]

Detective Barrie Craig (William Gargan[2]) worked alone from his Madison Avenue office.[1] Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Craig had a laid-back personality, somewhat cutting against the popular hard-boiled detective stereotype. Others in the cast included Ralph Bell, Elspeth Eric, Parker Fennelly, Santos Ortega, Arnold Moss, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg and Betty Lou Gerson.[1]

Don Pardo was the announcer.[3]

Gargan also starred in the role in an unsuccessful 1952 TV pilot[4] written and directed by Blake Edwards. It was presented on ABC's Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as "Death the Hard Way" (October 17, 1954).

John Roeburt was the head writer for the series.[5]

A few years earlier Gargan had played a similar character in Martin Kane, Private Eye.

References

1. Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2020-01-03.
2. Alicoate, Jack, Ed. (1952). The 1952 Radio Annual. Radio Daily Corp. p. 842.
3. III, Harris M. Lentz (2015). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014. McFarland. p. 267. ISBN 978-1476619613. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
4. "Air-casters" (PDF). Broadcasting. March 24, 1952. Retrieved 24 August 2014.^[permanent dead link‍]
5. "Roeburt: Man of Action". Variety. March 16, 1955. p. 26. Retrieved April 16, 2023.

External links

Streaming audio

• Radio Lovers: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
• 59 episodes of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator from Internet Archive

Logs

• Episodic log of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator from Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs Archived 2014-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Episodic log (and more) of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator from The Digital Deli Too
• Episodic log of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator from RadioGOLDINdex Archived 2014-08-26 at the Wayback Machine