rand’s esoteric otr

Although some late era old time radio shows can sound a bit stale, with the stock music library cues and sound effects and scripts that seem to have been written on autopilot, I do have a fondness for “The FBI in Peace and War”.  If nothing else, the show had some good actors that try to inject some interesting personality into the parade of criminals heard each week.

In this post, we hear program 323 in the series as it was broadcast on AFRTS, “Out of Retirement”.  The story concerns a con-man that tries to con a con-man.

The show was digitized from an original AFRTS vinyl microgroove transcription.  The flip side features an episode of “Police Blotter” heard a few weeks back on the blog.  There’s no date on the matrix, so I’m unsure of the original CBS broadcast date.

Update:  In the comments, sharp-eyed listener Dean noticed that this episode is listed in the series log at otrsite.com with a broadcast date of 1957-03-03.

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