ABOUT THE SHOW: ADVENTURE THRILLER

broadcast  history: 1944-45, transcribed syndication, intended for weekly play in 30m time-slots. cast: Elliott Lewis, David Ellis, and Russell Thorson all serving stints as Capt. Bart Friday, a San Francisco detective who roamed the world looking for dangerous adventure. Jack Edwards as Skip Turner, Friday's .Texas-talking sidekick. writer-producer: Carlton E. Morse.

It's no accident that Adventures by Morse bears a striking resemblance to / Love a Mystery: both were written and directed by Carlton E. Morse, who produced this syndication soon after his ILAM had been scrapped by NEC. The hero, Capt. Friday, sounded much like ILAM strongman Jack Packard; the sidekick, Skip Turner, was an ILAM Doc Long sound-alike. The stories bordered on the supernatural, though there was usually a near-rational explanation. Major stories of ten weeks alternated with shorter pieces of three chapters, accommodating the standard 13-week broadcasting contracts. The first show sent Friday and Turner to a graveyard in northern California, a fog-shrouded place where the dead walked, wolfmen prowled, and ghouls roamed at will. Later they went to Cambodia and confronted an ancient order of vampire priests inside a vast hollow mountain. The entire 5 2-week run exists on tape in splendid sound, giving a fine example of the kind of terror-chillers that Morse did better than anyone else. (1)