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Nick Carter Master Detective - Single Episodes

by: Old Time Radio Researchers Group

Publication date: 2020-01-03

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

NICK CARTER, MASTER DETECTIVE
Nick Carter first made an appearance in a pulp novel in 1886. His popularity lasted over 100 years until the last Nick Carter-Killmaster book was published in 1990. The master detective first ventured into radio on April 11, 1943 on the Mutual Broadcasting System as The Return of Nick Carter, a nod to his pulp fiction history. The title was changed to Nick Carter, Master Detective shortly thereafter.

Lon Clark starred as Mr. Carter throughout the run, with his assistant Patsy Bowen first voiced by Helen Choate for three years, then by Charlotte Manson for the rest of the series. The cast also included John Kane as reporter and friend, Scubby Wilson, Ed Latimer as Sgt. Mathison, Nick’s inside man at the police department, and Michael Fitzmaurice served as the announcer.

Interestingly, the head script writer Walter B. Gibson was the co-creator and writer of The Shadow pulp novels which were published by the same group that published the Nick Carter books. When Gibson asked for a raise in 1946 he was summarily fired, then picked up by Jock MacGregor, the producer and director of the master detective scripts. Other writers included Milton J. Kramer, David Kogan, and Alfred Bester, who won the first Hugo Award in 1953 for his novel The Demolished Man. Organ music was supplied by Hank Sylvern, Lew White and George Wright.

The series had a spinoff Chick Carter, Boy Detective, which featured Nick’s adopted son in his own adventures geared toward younger listeners. It aired from July 1943 to July 1945. Chick was played by Bill Lipton and Leon Janney, who later became a staple member of the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre.

Detective Carter solved his last radio mystery on September 25, 1955, but would live on through television, movies, and books.
NOTE: Updated with Version 2 files (03-Jan-2020).

From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes" Section below for more information on the OTRR.

Notes

OLD TIME RADIO RESEARCHERS GROUP

This is a production of the Old Time Radio Researchers (OTRR) Group located at Old Time Radio Researchers Website (www.otrr.org), Old Time Radio Researchers Facebook Group, and Old Time Radio Researchers Group.

It contains the most complete and accurate version of this series in the best sound possible at the time of creation. An updated version will be issued if more episodes or better sounding ones become available.

This is the Single Episodes Page. The Certified Set includes extras not found here. It is located at OTRR Certified Set. This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the original OTRR names to conform to archive.org naming requirements.

If you are interested in preserving Old Time Radio (OTR), you may wish to join the Old Time Radio Researchers Group at Facebook and Groups.io.

Relax, listen, and enjoy!

OTRR Definitions:

OTRR Maintained Set -- This set contains all known episodes in the best available audio condition with the most accurate dates and titles known to be in general circulation and based on current research at the time of release. Replaces OTRR Certified Accurate and OTRR Certified Complete.

OTRR Non-Maintained Set -- A collection of shows that has not gone through the OTRR Maintenance process.

Pre-2019 OTRR Definitions:

OTRR Certified Accurate -- A series that was "Certified Accurate" indicated that all the episodes were properly identified and labeled based on current information but that the series did not contain all known extant episodes.

OTRR Certified Complete -- A series that was "Certified Complete" achieved the highest level of certification available under the OTRR Certified Standards. This certification level implied that all the files in the series were "Certified Accurate" and also indicated that the series was as complete as possible and included all circulating episodes.

OTRR Non-Certified -- A collection of shows that has not gone through the OTRR Certification process.

Also, beginning in 2019, the version numbers of our OTRR releases changed format -- instead of v1.0 or v2.1, we are now using a version number that reflects the year and month the set was released. The format used is a two-digit year followed by a two-digit month. For example, "v1906" indicates a set that was released in June 2019, or "v1910" indicates a set released in October 2019.

NOTE: There are no passwords for any of our ZIP files. If you are prompted for a password, before downloading the file again, try unzipping the file into a shorter full folder path name -- for example, unzip to "C:\" instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\your_Windows_ID\some_other_folder\". Sorry, some of our releases contain long folder and file names, which sometimes manifests itself on the Windows platform as prompting for a password for the ZIP file. Or try renaming the ZIP file itself to a shorter name before unzipping.

Addeddate: 2015-08-01 21:52:55

External_metadata_update: 2019-03-31T00:24:57Z

Identifier: OTRR_Nick_Carter_Master_Detective_Singles

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Reviewer: Anonymous - - May 30, 2021
Subject: Fond Memories

I work with developmentally disabled adults in a group home setting. One evening, some years ago, a gentlemen I worked with at the time indicated that he wanted to go for a drive. The car radio was on and tuned to a program called "When Radio Was . . . ". As it happened, they were airing an episode of Nick Carter Master Detective.
While we were cruising along I noticed that he was leaning in toward the radio with a big smile on his face. Well, it wasn't long before we had to get a bookcase to hold a growing CD collection of old time radio shows that, I have to admit, I enjoyed hearing as much as he did. The gentleman left this world a while back, but I think of him often when I visit this site.

Reviewer: OTRRArchive - - January 5, 2020
Subject: Files Updated!

FYI:

Replaced files on this page from the Version 2 Release (03-Jan-2020).

For the full OTRR Release, see the OTRR Certified page:

OTRR Nick Carter, Master Detective

- Old Time Radio Researchers Group

Reviewer: foxyryan - - August 5, 2016
Subject: Love detectives

Love this will listen to everyone of these

Reviewer: ddsimpkins - - October 19, 2015
Subject: Well Done!

I plan to listen to all of these. Love this series! It is somewhat tiring to hear Nick tell they police to do what they should already know but I deal with it.

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