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Falcon was a decade-long detective series that aired on Blue Network from 1943 to 1953. It is based on a series of detective movies starring Falcon, the fictional detective created by Michael Arlen (although there are some who believe that the creator was actually Drexel Drake).

The character of Falcon was first featured in one of Arlen’s short stories. He was described as a hardboiled detective who loves adventures. Drake’s character, on the other hand, was called Michael Waring. Lots of Falcon films, nevertheless, featured a guy detective named Gay Falcon. Some films also featured Falcon’s detective sibling Tom Lawrence. After the success of all Falcon films, radio producers decided to make an radio show using the popular character.

The radio character of Falcon was somewhat more similar to Drake’s character than Arlen’s. The show aired over various networks throughout its run. Different actors took the role of Falcon, with the most remembered among them being Les Tremayne and Les Damon. Click here to read more about Falcon, The


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 05.20.1951 case of the curious cop

+ "The Case Of The Curious Cop". Sponsored by: Kraft Salad Oil, Kraft Caramels. Who killed Frank Wa...
 05.13.1951 case of the dutch doll

+ "The Case Of The Dutch Doll". Sponsored by: Kraft Salad Oil, Kraft Dinner. Michael Waring learns ...
 03.04.1951 case of the gangster girl

+ "The Case Of The Gangster's Girl". Sponsored by: Kraft Velveeta. A girl tries to break off with h...
 02.21.1952 case of the gold ring

+ "The Case Of The Gold Ring". "Those who deal in junk, are sometimes paid off in lead." The syste...
 08.01.1951 case of the hypocritical patient

+ "The Case Of The Hypocritical Hypo". Sponsored by: Kraft Miracle Whip, Kraft Malted Milk. A hypoc...
 06.27.1951 case of the nervous shakedown

+ "The Case Of The Nervous Shakedown". Sponsored by: Kraft Miracle Whip. "The Falcon" knows a "boy ...
 04.15.1951 case of the shopkeepers gun

+ "The Case Of The Shopkeeper's Gun". Sponsored by: Kraft. It’s Sunday night in New York and in a...
 05.27.1951 case of the unwelcome wife

+ "The Case Of The Unwelcome Wife". Sponsored by: Kraft Salad Oil. Richard Wayne, the manager of th...
 11.01.1948 murder is a bad bluff

+ "Murder Is A Bad Bluff". A woman suspects that her fiance is hiding something. What does he do f...
 11.27.1945 murder is a family affair

+ "Murder Is A Family Affair". Sponsored by: Gem Razor Blades. Starting with a prison execution, a ...
 02.20.1949 murder is a knock out

+ "Murder Is A Knockout". A woman takes it on the lam with $75,000. Murder soon follows. A complex...
 06.22.1953 the case of the ace of spades

 05.14.1950 the case of the amorous bookkeeper

+ "The Case Of The Amorous Book-Keeper". A book-keeper is accused of embezzling his employer's fun...
 07.06.1952 the case of the babbling brooks

+ "The Case Of The Babbling Brooks". The Falcon flies to London. An accused murderer claims he is ...
 12.17.1950 the case of the baby brother

+ "The Case Of The Baby Brother". Sponsored by: Kraft. A man's brother has committed suicide. Soon ...
 08.08.1951 the case of the bashful boss

+ Mike Waring learns that some people operate on the theory that the way to keep a bad man down is t...
 08.22.1951 the case of the beautiful bait

+ "The Case Of The Beautiful Bait". Beautiful Vickie Terren is found strangled shortly after Mike W...
 01.28.1951 the case of the bellicose boxer

+ "The Case Of The Bellicose Boxer". Sponsored by: Kraft. "The Falcon" attends the fights and one o...
 04.12.1954 the case of the big fix

 04.29.1951 the case of the big talker

+ "The Case Of The Big Talker". Sponsored by: Kraft, Kraft Dinner. A bigmouthed loser from St. Loui...
 06.20.1951 the case of the broken finger print

+ "The Case Of The Broken Fingerprint". Sponsored by: Kraft Miracle Whip, Kraft Malted Milk. "When ...
 07.24.1952 the case of the broken key

+ "The Case Of The Broken Key". Army Intelligence flies Mike Waring to Casablanca, where he learns...
 05.29.1952 the case of the burning bridges

+ "The Case Of The Burning Bridges". Mr. Bridges offers $70,000 for a Ho-Shin Buddha. There are "f...
 10.15.1950 the case of the careless client

+ "The Case Of The Careless Client". Sponsored by: Kraft. A private eye locates a man for a tough g...
 N/A murder knows no borderline

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The adventure of the Falcon.

Mike

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72 year later after the debut "The Falcon" is one of my favorites!

James

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I have been a radio fan for about 60 years. I am in the process of collecting my favorites. I have hundreds of cassettes that are so old.

Joannie

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The Falcon, like the LoneWolf, and a wide variety of dectectives, were also featured in various movies...many of which I saw in actual theaters, heard on radio, etc. I have some of these programs on both tape and cds which ARE BECOMING OBSOLETE AS I WRITE THIS...Many famous Holly Wood Movie stars, like Bogart, Price, Sinatra, etc. actually did a lot on radio...check out the history and also listen to the old shows and find out what you have missed and what things were like, especially during WWII...most people today are very ignorant of such...

Halford

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The Falcon radio show was an off-shoot of The Falcon films. In the films he was an English gentleman detective, in the radio series a more typical hardboiled private eye. Yet when the scripts from the radio show were remade in Australia, he was back to being an English gentleman detective.

Ian

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Michael Arlen created The Falcon in his 1940 story, Gay Falcon. This crime drama about Michael Waring (The Falcon), takes place in New York. The series was broadcast by NBC and Mutual from 1943 to 1954.

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The Adventures of The Falcon Radio Program
According to The Billboard of January 16 1943 the announced first run of The Adventures of The Falcon over NBC garnered almost immediate popular support
The Billboard of January 30 1943 teases the first sponsor interest in The Adventures of The Falcon from Kreuger Brewing. NBC was still scheduling 'The Gay Falcon' for a February 3 1943 debut.
Mutual Broadcasting System Premiere spot ad from July 3 1945 for The Adventures of The Falcon
Gem Blades ad promoting The Adventures of The Falcon from September 10 1945
KLO spot ad for The Adventures of The Falcon from 1947
George Petrie assumed the role of Mike Waring with the final runs of The Adventures of the Falcon over Mutual from January 5 1953 forward
Camel Cigarettes was the last major sponsor of The Adventures of The Falcon--during the 1953-1954 Mutual seasons.
CBS Television debuted The Adventures of The Falcon during 1954 starring Radio and Film veteran Charles McGraw as a counter-espionage agent
A Gem of A Murder
Murder Is A Dangerous Habit
The Boston Bluebeard
Death Is A Bad Split
The Case Of The Worried Champion
Premiere announcement of January 5 1953 for the return of The Adventures of The Falcon over Mutual starring George Petrie as Mike Waring, The Falcon
Berry Kroeger casting book entry circa 1940
Announcement of one of Berry Kroeger's acting appearances from May 2 1932.
Berry Kroeger in a brilliant tour de force in The Case of Lady Sannox from Suspense (1949)
Berry Kroeger as Arthur Jarech in The Case of The Screaming Woman from Perry Mason (1958)
Berry Kroeger as Ernest Wray in The Case of The Lame Canary from Perry Mason (1959)
Berry Kroeger as Donald Evanson in The Case of The Flighty Father from Perry Mason (1960)
Berry Kroeger as Edgar Whitehead in The Case of The Blindman's Bluff from Perry Mason (1961)
Berry Kroeger as Rexford Wyler in The Case of The Wooden Nickels from Perry Mason (1964)
Berry Kroeger in Demon Seed (1977) As noted from his casting card at left, Berry Kroeger had already been a Radio performer for 10 years by 1942. Young Berry Kroeger was born, raised and educated in the Alamo Heights area of San Antonio, Texas, a very affluent annex of San Antonio. His family was prominent in San Antonio's society and well respected and admired from all contemporaneous accounts. Berry's father was an independent construction contractor as well as an active philanthropist and local volunteer to all manner of civic causes. While attending Brackenridge Senior School, Berry Kroeger was actively involved in the school's drama productions. Kroeger briefly attended the University of California at Berkley after graduating from high school, returning in the summers and for holidays to perform in--and eventually direct--many of San Antonio's Little Theatre plays. Indeed the draw of San Antonio's rich theatrical traditions eventually brought Kroeger back to San Antonio by 1931, to complete his education at the local Junior College, while becoming much more active in the community theatre productions in and around San Antonio. The San Pedro Playhouse, especially, came to be Kroeger's theatrical home for several years. Between 1931 and 1935, Berry Kroeger continued to commute back and forth between California and San Antonio dependent only upon the demands or offers of Radio work on the coast or theatrical productions back home in San Antonio. In September 1935, Kroeger packed up his auto and committed to giving Hollywood one good, solid run, driving from San Antonio to Hollywood to settle in for the duration--if his luck holds up. With some four years of stage directing experience and seven years of acting experience under his belt, Kroeger has every expectation of succeeding in Hollywood in any medium he chooses. CBS Radio signed Berry Kroeger to a two-year contract in 1936, which eventually leads to numerous appearances in Calling All Cars, a production well suited to Kroeger's extraordinary range of character ages, versatility and authority. He also shows versatility in Dr. Christian, CBS Forecast, Columbia Workshop, Suspense, and Words at War for CBS. Kroeger also shows his durability as he begins to appear regularly on several of the daytime serials of the era. From the 46-07-07 San Antonio Light: Berry Kroeger, former San Antonian, is much around Broadway these days and has changed his first name to Barry. He will have the leading role in the CBS Grand Central Station program starting July 6. Before Kroeger went to New York he played with the Pasadena Playhouse in California, with Max Reinhardt in Hollywood. Among his Broadway plays were ''The World's Full of Girls
Les Tremayne publicity photo, ca 1936
Lester Tremayne entry from the October 1940 edition of Lew Lauria's Radio Artists Directory
Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan at a CBS mike for The Adventures of The Thin Man, ca. 1944
Les Tremayne close-up from The War of The Worlds, ca. 1953
Two Radio legends--Olan Soulé and Les Tremayne, in one frame from Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959)
Closeup of Tremayne, exasperated by Cary Grant's erratic bidding in North by Northwest, (1959)
Les Damon as Nick Charles from the December 1942 issue of Movie Radio Guide
Les Damon, ca. 1949
Les Damon with character actor Ken Lynch from The Adventures of The Falcon, ca. 1950
Les Damon with Jackie Gleason in The Honeymooners episode, A Dog's Life from 1956
Les Damon with Gleason and Carnie in The Honeymooners episode, Pal-O-Mine from 1955
Les Damon with Jackie Gleason in The Honeymooners episode, Safety Award, from 1956
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The Case Of The Careless Corpse
in 1943, The Falcon made his radio debut. Michael Waring (alias The Falcon) was a freelance investigator, taking on the troubles of ladies who were lost, dangerous, and deadly. Les Damon takes on the lead role in this collection from Radio Spirits called
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