On This Day, August 28: Flamond and Junior G-Men
Also featured: Glenn Miller.
August 28 Update
This report documents the historical provenance, broadcast scheduling, commercial sponsorship, credited cast, production personnel, alternate circulating titles, and pure narrative synopses for broadcasts transmitting on August 28 across American network radio and the BBC, Everett Clarke as psychological sleuth Flamond on WGN/Mutual, scout detectives in True Adventures of Junior G-Men, Humphrey Lyttelton & Barry Cryer on BBC's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Jack Armstrong diving for Wheaties, Glenn Miller's Chesterfield Moonlight Serenade, and Phillips H. Lord's Treasury Department docudrama Treasury Agent (1936–1974):
1. Broadcasts
| Title | Network, Airdate & Showtime | Sponsor & Commercial Ads | Credited Cast & Performers | Director, Writers & Crew | Genres | Story Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Case of the Doubtful Doctor" | Mutual / WGN 1945-08-28 9:30 PM EWT |
Commercial Mystery Sponsors |
Everett Clarke, Patricia Dunlap | Bob Trendler Orch | ["Detective", "Psychological Thriller", "Mystery", "Hardboiled", "Crime"] |
Criminologist and psychologist Flamond investigates a suspicious private physician whose wealthy patients keep signing over estates before dying unexpectedly. |
| "The Black Leather Case (Part 1)" | Syndicated Elec 1936-08-28 |
Commercial Junior G-Men Club |
Syndicated Juvenile Repertory | Juvenile Adventure Staff | ["Adventure", "Juvenile", "Police Procedural", "Action", "Serial"] |
Junior G-Men scouts discover an abandoned briefcase containing encoded bank blueprints left behind by an escaped fugitive gang. |
| "Booksellers Ball" | BBC Radio 4 1974-08-28 12:27 PM |
Sustaining Comedy Panel Game |
Humphrey Lyttelton, Barry Cryer | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden | ["Comedy", "British", "Panel", "Satire", "Improv"] |
The antidote to panel games features spontaneous puns, ridiculous word definitions, and musical parodies satirizing publishing conventions. |
| "The Killer of Mato Reef" | ABC (WJZ) 1947-08-28 5:30 PM EDT |
General Mills Wheaties ("Breakfast of Champions") |
Michael Ransom, John Gannon | Sarajane Wells | ["Adventure", "Juvenile", "Action", "Maritime", "Serial"] |
Jack Armstrong dives into an undersea cavern off Mato Reef to disarm a booby-trapped pearl diver's cage guarded by a rogue tiger shark. |
| "Moonlight Serenade with Glenn Miller" | CBS / AFRS 1943-08-28 |
Liggett & Myers Chesterfield ("They Satisfy!") |
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra | Ray Eberle, The Modernaires | ["Music", "Big Band", "Swing", "Jazz", "Vocal"] |
Glenn Miller leads his civilian orchestra through smooth swing arrangements of 'Moonlight Serenade' and wartime dance favorites. |
| "The Perilous Pawnshop" | Mutual (WOR) 1956-08-28 8:30 PM EDT |
Sustaining Police Docudrama |
Phillips H. Lord (Narrator) | Phillips H. Lord Productions | ["Police Procedural", "Docudrama", "Crime", "Mystery", "Undercover"] |
Undercover federal Treasury agents infiltrate a corrupt dockside pawnshop operating as a front for an illegal firearms and gold smuggling ring. |