Initially launched mainly because Barrie Crane, Confidential Investigator in NBC in 1951, the series quickly made a name change to Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator. It starred film and film veteran William Gargan as hard-boiled New York-based personal attention Barry Craig. Gargan have been playing Martin Kane, Personal Detective on both radio and Television. In the summertime of 1951, Gargan cleared the decks for his part as Barrie Craig. Gruff, blunt and sardonic but with an excellent love of life, Gargan was ideal for about Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, Collection 1 the genre and in the part of Barrie Craig. He was handsomely paid too – Gargan’s reported contract paid him $1 million for 5 years. The writers from the series had been radio’s greatest, including Frank Kane, Ernest Kinoy, Louie Vittes and John Roeburt. Directors included Edward Ruler, Himan Brown, Arthur Jacobson and Andrew C. Like. Barrie Craig officed on another floor of the Mercantile Building on Manhattan’s Madison Avenue and had taken on cases too tough for law enforcement. He was fiercely impartial, sardonic and doggedly persistent in his visit a killer. The assisting casts read such as a who’s who of New York’s finest tone of voice skill including: Santos Ortega, Elspeth Eric, Joan Alexander, Parker Fennelly, Arnold Moss and Luis Truck Rooten. Don Pardo and Ed King did the announcing. It liked a successful operate, enduring until 1954. 12/5/51 ‘The Paper Bullets’

12/12/51 ‘Death and the Crimson Cow’

1/16/52 ‘Fatal Session’

1/23/52 ‘The Deadly Fight’

2/6/52 ‘Diary of Loss of life’

2/13/52 ‘A Time to Kill’

2/20/52 ‘Purpose for Murder’

1/4/53 ‘The Crimson Queen’

6/14/53 ‘The Shed Lady’

9/22/53 ‘Kitchens Come with Knives’

10/13/53 ‘Fog More than Murder’

11/3/53 ‘The Lonely Corner’