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Cloak and Dagger (radio series)
US radio adventure series (1950) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cloak and Dagger is an NBC radio series, a foreign intrigue adventure adapted from the book Cloak and Dagger by Corey Ford[1] and Alistair McBain.[2] Ford also was host of the series.[3] Cloak and Dagger was broadcast from May 7 to October 22, 1950, as part of "a mystery block with several other shows of far inferior quality".[4] The program was sustaining for all 22 episodes.[5]
Personnel
The cast that included Raymond Edward Johnson, Everett Sloane and Jackson Beck. Robert Warren and Karl Weber were the announcers.[4] Scriptwriter Wyllis Cooper directed the series with research support provided by Percy Hoskins, British journalist, crime reporter and author.[citation needed] The producers were Alfred Hollander[5] and Louis G. Cowan, with Sherman Marks as director. Jack Gordon and Winifred Wolfe were the writers, and John Gart provided music.[4]
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Episodes
Stories on Cloak and Dagger "came right out of Washington files" of the Office of Strategic Services.[1] A 1950 newspaper article commented, "The stories dramatized each week are true, and yet as fantastic as any fiction writer might be able to dream up."[1] The program was the first network series based on fully authenticated case histories of OSS espionage.[6]
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