+This story centered around the private investigations company of “Assignments Unlimited,” an organisation that investigated uncommon cases and who guaranteed successes at all time. The main character was Aubrey Mason, chief investigator played by Michael Todd. In essence this story reminds a lot of “Address Unknown”, with Henry Simon being replaced by Aubrey Mason. Instead of missing persons being sought, this time around it’s uncommon cases being investigated and solved. The first 17 episodes were written by Adrian Steed, who later became a well known face on South African Television as presenter and news reader. The remaining episodes were written by another very famous Springbok Radio personality, Douglas Laws. +One of the many shows that we have "imported" from South Africa, this old time radio great is one of the better ones. 33 Half Moon Street involved the cases taken on by a detective agency named Assignments Unlimited. Whose tagline was that they guaranteed success, all the time. Many old time radio listeners are a bit leery of purchasing shows from the BBC, or South Africa, feeling that they may be a bit hard to listen to because of the accents. There are a few shows out there that are a bit tough to listen to, but not this one! Very slight, and I mean almost non-existent accents. And, in the case of this old time radio thriller, very clear audio quality. Airing after the Golden Age Of Radio, 33 Half Moon Street,the great Michael Todd played the part of Investigator Aubrey Mason, whose slogan was "We do anything, anywhere, at anytime", and also went along guaranteeing success of every case. The name of the show is the address of the detective agency, 33 Half Moon Street. The cases were usually a bit uncommon, but all very good. 33 Half Moon Street went on to become a very popular and successful radio show, and still has quite a following today. Each episode is about 25 minutes long. Not hard boiled, by any means. Even with Michael Todd playing the part of Mason, the "star" of the show was the plots themselves. All very well written, and being so far along in the age of radio, production values are very high. Any radio listener who enjoys a good who-dun-it will enjoy 33 Half Moon Street. Click here to read more about Thirty Three Half Moon Street (33 Half Moon Street)
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Please enjoy these 45 old time radio episodes:
Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
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05.06.1965 | parsons pride | ||
05.20.1965 | chips for the fish monger | ||
05.27.1965 | a kitten for mr katz | ||
06.03.1965 | the king and the cauliflower ear | ||
06.10.1965 | a bag of coal for mr lazenby | ||
06.17.1965 | a blackjack for a black leg | ||
06.24.1965 | swan song for mr singh | ||
07.01.1965 | saved by the gong | ||
07.08.1965 | bannon and the bogey cat | ||
07.29.1965 | hemp for the hangman | ||
08.05.1965 | the moon and a million | ||
08.12.1965 | confidential cargo | ||
08.19.1965 | a widow in black | ||
08.26.1965 | green for danger | ||
09.02.1965 | the man who thought too much | ||
09.09.1965 | dive deep for death | ||
09.16.1965 | the reluctant camel | ||
09.23.1965 | two sides to the shamrock | ||
09.30.1965 | the short term ghost | ||
10.07.1965 | food for the dragon | ||
10.14.1965 | one is a litter | ||
10.19.1965 | requiem for a rat | ||
10.26.1965 | death of a lifer | ||
11.02.1965 | shannon and the show boat | ||
11.09.1965 | no bells for the bride |
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