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Saturday Dec 06, 2008
Miss Pinkerton, Inc. - Audition
Saturday Dec 06, 2008
Saturday Dec 06, 2008
We've had a thread running on the old time radio mailing list about this show, so I thought I'd go ahead and put up my copy of it. "Miss Pinkerton, Inc" was a proposed series about Mary Vance, an aspiring law student who suddenly inherits her uncle's private detective agency, and is one of the few radio shows about female detectives. The program features Joan Blondell and Dick Powell and probably dates from 1941.
It would appear that the show never actually aired - it's too bad since the script is fun and there's great chemistry going on between Blondell and Powell. I have to wonder if the creators of "Moonlighting", the 80s television series with Cybyll Sheppard and Bruce Willis were inspired by it. It's unknown how this audition show came about and whether it was proposed as a full network or regional network series or something for syndication. The program was transferred from an original vinyl transcription pressed by Radio Recorders, matrix numbers RR 7499 and RR 7500D. A member of the old time radio mailing list has a copy of part two of the show with matrix number RR 7500 - on that disc there's a flubbed telephone sound effect. So there may be two different performances of the second half of the show in existence (or the engineers may have made a dub of the flubbed performance and inserted the corrected sound effect). By the way, Goldin lists a twenty minute "closed circuit advertiser's presentation" with this title dated 1942 but with a different plot. It's likely a second try at an audition for the series.Version: 20240320
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