On This Day, September 3: I Love a Mystery and Treasury Agent
Also featured: Vox Pop.
September 3 Update
This report documents the historical provenance, broadcast scheduling, commercial sponsorship, credited cast, production personnel, alternate circulating titles, serial story metadata declarations, and pure narrative synopses for broadcasts transmitting on September 3 across Carlton E. Morse's three adventure serial cycles (The Decapitation of Jefferson Monk, The Girl in the Gilded Cage, and The Cobra King Strikes Back), federal Treasury Department crime investigations, live aviation history broadcasts, and department store detective cases, Carlton E. Morse in I Love a Mystery (1943, 1951, 1952), Frank Lovejoy as Treasury Agent (1957), Parks Johnson and Warren Hull on Vox Pop celebrating United Air Lines (1945), and Eno Crime Clues (1935–1957):
1. Broadcasts
| Title | Network, Airdate & Showtime | Sponsor & Commercial Ads | Credited Cast & Performers | Director, Writers & Crew | Genres | Story Arc Metadata | Story Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Decapitation of Jefferson Monk (Part 5) with Michael Raffetto" | CBS (KNX) 1943-09-03 7:00 PM EWT |
Procter & Gamble Ivory Soap & Oxydol |
Michael Raffetto (Jack) | Barton Yarborough & Morse | ["Adventure", "Mystery", "I Love A Mystery", "Carlton E Morse", "CBS"] |
{"title": "The Decapitation of Jefferson Monk", "part": 5, "total_parts": 15} |
Jack Packard and Doc Long search a subterranean cellar beneath an isolated estate to locate the missing body of eccentric millionaire Jefferson Monk. |
| "The Girl in the Gilded Cage (Part 1) with Russell Thorson" | Mutual (WOR) 1951-09-03 10:15 PM EDT |
Sustaining Adventure Serial |
Russell Thorson (Jack) | Jim Boles & Morse | ["Adventure", "Mystery", "I Love A Mystery", "Carlton E Morse", "Mutual"] |
{"title": "The Girl in the Gilded Cage", "part": 1, "total_parts": 15} |
The A-1 Detective Agency operatives arrive in New Orleans after being retained by a mysterious young woman held captive inside a French Quarter mansion. |
| "The Cobra King Strikes Back (Part 3) with Russell Thorson" | Mutual (WOR) 1952-09-03 10:15 PM EDT |
Sustaining Adventure Serial |
Russell Thorson (Jack) | Jim Boles & Morse | ["Adventure", "Mystery", "I Love A Mystery", "Carlton E Morse", "Mutual"] |
{"title": "The Cobra King Strikes Back", "part": 3, "total_parts": 15} |
Jack and Doc track a venomous serpent cult leader through misty mountain trails in the high Sierras. |
| "The Sugar Syndicate with Frank Lovejoy as Joe Lincoln" | Mutual (WOR) 1957-09-03 8:30 PM EDT |
Sustaining Federal Docudrama |
Frank Lovejoy (Lincoln) | Leonard Bass (Dir) | ["Crime", "Docudrama", "Treasury Agent", "Frank Lovejoy", "Mutual"] |
null |
Federal undercover investigators infiltrate an interstate black-market sugar ring supplying illicit bootleg alcohol distilleries. |
| "United Air Lines 25th Anniversary with Parks Johnson and Warren Hull" | CBS (WABC) 1945-09-03 8:00 PM EWT |
Bromo-Seltzer Co. Headache Relief |
Parks Johnson, Hull | Aviation Pioneers | ["Interview", "Human Interest", "Vox Pop", "Parks Johnson", "CBS"] |
null |
Parks Johnson and Warren Hull conduct simultaneous transcontinental man-on-the-street interviews in San Francisco and New York celebrating twenty-five years of transcontinental airmail and passenger aviation. |
| "Nocturne in Crimson with Clyde North as Spencer Dean" | NBC Blue (WJZ) 1935-09-03 8:00 PM EDST |
Harold F. Ritchie Eno Fruit Salts |
Clyde North (Dean) | Stewart Sterling (Writer) | ["Detective", "Mystery", "Eno Crime Clues", "Spencer Dean", "NBC Blue"] |
null |
Store detective Spencer Dean deduces how a concert pianist was poisoned backstage during the performance of a midnight sonata. |