 Nick Carter played for over ten years, and
gave radio detectives fans another deductive hero
to tail. The half-hour unfolds as a straight, dramatic
narrative, with clues littering the scenes, so that
a plausible solution was possible for the alert listener.
Nick came on at the end of the show to add it all
up correctly.
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Lon Clark was Nick throughout the run, and did him
as a pretty serious straight-ahead guy, like a hound
on the trail.After all, he had his master's status
to uphold. Helen Choate played Nick's assistant, Patsy
Bowen until '46, then Charlotte Manson. Patsy was
Nick's smart, witty sidekick who took no guff from
Sgt. Masterson, played byEd Latimer. Sgt. Masterson
was the typical workman-like homicide cop (the type
goes right back to Lestrade of Sherlock Holmes)who
looked to Nick to shed a little light.
 The detective team had a "legman" in Scubby Wilson, a
reporter who tailed Nick and Patsy on the cases. John
Kane did Scubby as the brash, ready-and-willing young
man who was out to get the story, and knew Nick Carter
would deliver the goods which he could then scoop.
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That Nick was a Master Detective came from the fact
that as a character he first appeared in the pulps,
where the billing made a little more sense. On the
old time radio show, fine organ work pumps ups the action,
though the sound effects are minimal.
For more brainy detectives, see also: Softboiled Detectives. See also Chick Carter, Boy Detective in Rare Detectives and Crime Compilation.
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