Mystery Is My Hobby was a half=hour radio program recorded before a live audience and mainly aired on the Mutual Network. The program was originally titled Murder is My Hobby; the first six episodes were carried by six stations on the Don Lee Pacific network, beginning in April 1945; it moved to Mutual on October 14, 1945 and ran until July 14, 1946. The show was then revised and retitled and ran until 1951. A television version aired on February 17, 1950 on WNBT-TV New York.
The program starred Glen Langdon (later known for the film The Amazing Colossal Man) as police inspector Barton Drake, who was also the author of the book Mystery Is My Hobby; Drake would collect material for his stories while solving crimes as a policeman. (In the revised versi9on of the show, Drake was a mystery writer who worked with the police.) At the end of each episode Drake would explain how he solved the crime (murder, blackmail, larceny, whatever) to the befuddled lawman and criminal alike...because "mysteryis my hobby."
"Allen Fisher Is Murdered" is an undated episode, most likely from 1947. The episode is also known as "Faithless Wife."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dymsr3XYtI
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