Nick Carter Master Detective - The Case of the Careless Employees

With Lon Clark in the title role, the series commenced 11 April
1943, on Mutual, continuing in many different timeslots for well
over a decade. Between October 1944 and April 1945, it was heard as
a 30-minute program on Sunday afternoons at 3 pm, sponsored by Acme
Paints and Lin-X, with a 15-minute serial airing four or five times
a week in 1944 from April to September. In April 1945, the Sunday
series moved to 6pm, continuing in that timeslot until June 1946,
and it was also heard in 1946 on Tuesday from March to August.
Sponsored by Cudahy Packing and Old Dutch Cleanser and later Acme
Products (makers of such home-improvement chemicals as Kem-Tone
paints and Lin-X floor-cleaning waxes, a near-rival to the
more-popular Johnson's Wax products heard on numerous NBC Radio
shows at the same time), the series finally settled in on Sundays
at 6:30 pm for broadcasts from August 18, 1946 to September 21,
1952. Libby Packing was the sponsor when the drama aired on Sundays
at 6pm (1952–53). In the last two years of the long run (1953–55),
the show was heard Sundays at 4:30 pm. Jock MacGregor was the
producer-director of scripts by Alfred Bester, Milton J. Kramer,
David Kogan and others. Background music was supplied by organists
Hank Sylvern, Lew White and George Wright. Walter B. Gibson,
co-creator/writer of The Shadow pulp novels, was fired when he
asked for a raise in 1946, and then became head writer for the Nick
Carter radio series. Oddly enough, he never liked to write scripts
for the radio version of The Shadow, though both characters were
published by Street & Smith. Patsy Bowen, Nick's assistant, was
portrayed by Helen Choate until mid-1945; then Charlotte Manson
stepped into the role. Nick and Patsy's friend was reporter Scubby
Wilson (John Kane). Sgt. Mathison (Ed Latimer) was Nick's contact
at the police department. The supporting cast included Raymond
Edward Johnson, Bill Johnstone and Bryna Raeburn. Michael
Fitzmaurice was the program's announcer. The series ended on
September 25, 1955.