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Hello! Thank you very much for the info!

I will try to recall best I can about the show:

Was the sound quality poor and scratchy or clear with little or no static or hiss?

I think the quality was pretty good, it didn't small "small" and scratchy as if listening through a grammar phone.

Could you tell from the dialogue or music around what decade the story was set?

I'm sorry, no. I've listened to so many radio shows, like Philip Marlow, Johnny Cash, Sam Spade, Xminus One, Hermit's Cave, The Shadow, it's all mixed up. But, I would definitely know if it was from a non-detective show. >_<;;

Was the protagonist a hyper-masculine detective, or did he express himself with more refined upper-class affectation? American or British accents?

The protagonist certainly didn't sound like Vincent Price from The Saint, but wasn't super macho. Sort of mid-masculine, like Nero Wolf's sidekick. He was handling the situation w/reserve and not aggressive-- as in, he wasn't trying to escape (if he was being held hostage) and was polite in turn to the criminal. He was trusting of him, I suppose. Maybe he was giving the drug user protection? The criminal guy did have a kind of British accent though--maybe Transatlantic, but more British, I think. I know he was killed at the end, and that's how the protagonist discovered his eyedrops.

The Sam Spade show sounds like a possibility. Would have to go thru some episodes for anything familiar.... (Sorry, I seemed not allowed to leave a reply on the original post).

@yayoineko Sorry. I asked my friend (the other curator here) who is more familiar with the Detective genre than I am and we're both stumped. With all the Detective shows of the forties and fifties, and then the revival and pastiches of the 1970s -- and all of the hard-boiled stuff the BBC has produced and is still producing-- there's no way to narrow it down without more information.

If the show was an adaptation of a novel or short story, there might be a way of using Microsoft AI to locate the book and then the show. Or you could try to contact the host of the XM stream if they are still hosting the OTR channel and ask them.

Off the top of my head, you might try "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar," "Johnny Madero Pier 23," or "Gangbusters" in addition to the shows already mentioned.

Sorry you weren't able to reply. Tumblr is not running so great on my end, lately. Anyway, good hunting.

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