I Love A Mystery was an old-time radio program about
three friends who ran a detective agency and traveled the world
in search of adventure.
Jack Packard, Doc Long and Reggie York met as mercenary soldiers
fighting the Japanese in China. Later, they met again in San Francisco,
where they decided to form the A-1 Detective Agency. Their motto
was "No job too tough, no adventure too baffling." The
agency served as a plot device to involve the trio in a wide variety
of stories. These straddled the genres of mystery, adventure and
supernatural horror, and their adventures often took the them to
exotic locales.
Jack, the group leader, is a tough charismatic man, usually the
first to figure solutions to the mysteries. Jack has more of an
edge than the typical radio hero of the period. He distrusts the
attractive women who always seem to show up, and he professes to
dislike women in general. The series' writer claimed that Jack's
problems with women had to do with his youth. He had gotten a girl
pregnant and had to leave his home town in shame. This was only
a back story detail and was never made explicit on the show. Doc
and Reggie are slightly less edgy characters. The Texas-born Doc
is a hard-fighting, boastful, high-spirited character who provides
comic relief. Reggie, an Englishman noted for his great strength,
competes with Doc in trying to romance the women.
This collection of I Love A Mystery Greats includes
174 different shows and appearances for a total of 40+ hours of
listening enjoyment.
This product is a DVD collection of Old Time Radio mp3s. It is
designed to be played on your computer DVD drive with standard mp3
software - like Windows media player or its equivalent on Macintosh
computers. The mp3 files on the DVDs can be copied onto CDs for
play in your car stereo, home entertainment center, etc so you can
take your favorite shows with you anywhere you go.
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