Maurice Tarplin
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Sep 14, 2026
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Four of Charlie Kingston's cargo vessels have met disaster in the waters off Rocky Island, and the latest is wrecked in heavy fog after its captain follows a lighthouse beam toward the channel.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
On September 10, 1947, Boston Blackie brought listeners episode 139, Lighthouse Ghost, with Richard Colmar as Blackie, Jan Miner as Mary Wesley, and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Blackie joins Kingston and Mary at Rocky Island Lighthouse, while Inspector Faraday follows the wreck inquiry along the harbor approach.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Keeper Frank Harlow becomes part of a case involving an unexplained light that may be leading ships toward the reef.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
But Helen's involvement with Tom brings Ricardo's claimed power to dominate others into the household.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
The cast includes Jan Miner, Ian Martin, Maurice Tarplin, James Van Dyke, and Rod hendrickson.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
Tarplin also appears as the mysterious traveler.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
The program was heard on Mutual as a sustaining broadcast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
During a thunderstorm, a man is found dead in a meadow, apparently struck by lightning, but his doctor believes the death was no accident, and Boston Blackie is called into the case.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
From December 8th, 1948, this is Boston Blackie, episode 204, "Killer Lightning." Richard Kalmar stars as Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday, as their investigation follows clues tied to scientist Martin Carson, Hester Archer, and a missing lightning rod from a laboratory.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
It is a case that carries Blackie and Faraday from storm-swept evidence to the questions surrounding Carson's work.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Settle in now for another visit with one of radio's familiar detective partnerships.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
X-1 has brought you Death Wish, a story written by Ned Lang and adapted for radio by William Welch.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Featured in our cast were Ralph Camargo as Watkins, Maurice Tarplin as Captain Summers, Walter Black as Racheck, and Joseph Bell as the Radioman.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is Fred Collins speaking.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
X-1 was directed by George Gutzas and is an NBC Radio Network production.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Frankie's old associate, Marty Davis, has a plan to approach the vault of the Hellgate Bank and Trust Company through an East River sewer line, a route requiring a rubber raft, excavation tools, and close knowledge of the city beneath its streets.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Maurice Tarplin is heard as the mysterious traveller, with Frank Thomas and Joe DeSantis in the cast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan wrote, directed and produced the programme.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Here is the original broadcast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
From November 12, 1947, this is Boston Blackie, Episode 148, Murder Incorporated.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Richard Colmar stars as Blackie, with Jan Minor as Mary Wesley, and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday in the Ziv syndicated series carried by Mutual.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
We now take you back to the original broadcast.
speaker_4VOICE_ACTOR
Gentlemen, Mr. Jeffers.
Carl CarusoNARRATOR
All characters in tonight's story were fictitious, and any resemblance to the names of actual persons was purely coincidental.
Carl CarusoNARRATOR
In tonight's cast were Maurice Tarplin, Wendell Holmes, Roger DeKoven, Art Carney, and Richard Coogan.
Carl CarusoNARRATOR
Original music was played by Paul Taubman.
Carl CarusoNARRATOR
Broadcast engineer was Al King.
Adam GrahamHOST
But who's to say? I would hope people would be understanding.
Adam GrahamHOST
And of course, we get to hear Inspector Faraday, aka Maurice Tarplin, early in the story.
Adam GrahamHOST
Well, that is actually all the commentary I have on this particular episode.
Adam GrahamHOST
And with this, I'm going to be beginning my wave as... from recording the podcast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Their ordeal is the setting for Strange New World, episode 344 of The Mysterious Traveller, heard on Mutual February 19, 1952.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Maurice Tarplin appears as the mysterious traveller, with Clifford Carpenter and Lawson Zerbe, The script is by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, who also directed and produced.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Near waters once used for atomic tests, the airmen searched the island for shelter and supplies, and now the original broadcast.
Bill TonkinNARRATOR
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced, and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan, and starring two of radio's foremost actors, Clifford Carpenter and Lawson Zerbe, in Strange New World.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
When events at the Worthington household deepen the mystery, Blackie is joined by Mary, Shorty, and Inspector Faraday in seeking the facts behind the apparition.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Richard Kollmar stars as Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday, and Leslie Woods in the cast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Ladies and gentlemen, the lights are low, and now we return to the original broadcast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
[dramatic music]
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