Fred Allen's script writer Herman Wouk later wrote the bestsellers The Caine Mutniy and The Winds of War.
Broadcast History: 16 January 1939 to 26 December 1952Theme Tune: Valse Triste, by Sibelius
Carlton E. Morse wrote several radio series - the popular One Man's Family, featured the sprawling Barbour family of Sea Cliff, California; Adventures by Morse featuring a San Francisco detective, Captain Bart Friday and his sidekick, who roamed the world together seeking danger and solving mysteries, and I Love Adventure.
But it's I Love A Mystery which is considered by many radio fans and collectors to be the greatest radio adventure serial of all time - newspapers even had adverts running which read
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