Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons-Complete
Detective Section

Catalog #

Detcd 39

Episodes in Collection

57

 

Episodes

8/25/05-found 4 or 5 shows that were duplicates. Found parts of shows misdated. Used Goldins Index as a guide to complete this. Otter was only partially relied upon.

   9/12/08- Added 2 and replaced several from Open Reel..

ABOUT THE SHOW: Mr. Keen was one of radio' s longest-running detective series, a prime-time mystery with serious soap opera trappings. Coming from the radio fiction factory of Frank and Anne Hummert, it employed all the stereotypes, heavy dialogue, and trite plotting of its daytime cousins.

FIRST BROADCAST: Oct. 12, 1937

LAST BROADCAST: Feb. 22-April 19, 1955

SPONSORS: Procter & Gamble, Whitehall Pharmacal; American Chicle, Chesterfield

CAST: Bennett Kilpack as Mr. Keen, a kind- sounding but much-feared master detective. Phil Clarke as Mr. Keen later in the run. Arthur Hughes also as Mr. Keen. Jim Kelly as Mike Clancy

ORCHESTRA AND ORGANIST: Al Rickey

THEME: Someday I'll Find You