Counterspy Old Time Radio Adventurers

Today's Adventure: Counterspy David Harding and his agents are assigned to protect a foreign envoy visiting the United States to arrange the engraving of government bonds worth three million dollars. When the envoy’s secretary dies under suspicious circumstances and other details raise questions about the man’s identity, Harding begins investigating. The case grows more complicated as he uncovers...

Today's Adventure:After newspaper reporter Tom Fisher and a small-time grifter are murdered while investigating a fraudulent Mexican sweepstakes racket, David Harding sends Harry Peters to Gulfport, Texas, to follow the trail. A distinctive gold poker chip points Peters toward the offshore gambling ship El Toro, where he discovers that the gambling operation may conceal something far more dangerou...

Today's Adventure: After violent bank robber Rocky Gaines escapes from federal prison, David Harding and Harry Peters join the manhunt as the wounded fugitive heads into the mountains. Gaines seeks refuge with Norma Benton, a woman from his past who has built a new life with her husband, and threatens to expose her secret unless she helps him hide from the authorities. Original Radio Broadcast: Se...

Today's Adventure: David Harding and Harry Peters investigate a multimillion-dollar bootleg liquor operation that is using discarded corn-syrup cans to smuggle illegal alcohol into states with government-controlled liquor sales. Their investigation leads to Chicago businessman Hype Gordon, but proving his involvement means finding the hidden still supplying his operation—and Gordon is determined n...

Today's Adventure: David Harding and Harry Peters move to break up a widespread parcel-post theft ring, but their raid on the gang’s New York warehouse uncovers two deaths made to look like murder-suicide. Harding suspects the apparent solution is a setup and sets out to uncover who is really behind the killings. Original Radio Broadcast: September 22, 1949 Originating in New York Starring Don McL...

Today's Adventure: David Harding and Harry Peters investigate a massive parcel-post theft ring operating in several major cities. Peters goes undercover as a New York postal clerk, hoping to work his way inside the organization, but the investigation becomes increasingly dangerous as the gang grows suspicious of its newest recruit. Original Radio Broadcast: July 20, 1949. Originating in New York S...

Today's Adventure: David Harding investigates an interstate stolen-car racket after a detective working undercover is murdered. The trail leads to a former race-car driver with a dangerous reputation and a criminal organization determined to keep its operation - and the identity of its leader - hidden. Original Radio Broadcast: September 15, 1949 Originating from New YorkCast: Don MacLaughlin as D...

Today's Adventure: Counterspy chief David Harding tackles a different kind of threat when a juvenile court official asks for help breaking the grip of violent street gangs on Brooklyn's youth. Undercover operative Harry Peters infiltrates one of the toughest gangs, hoping to expose its ruthless leader before more impressionable boys are drawn into a life of crime. Original Radio Broadcast:Septemnb...

Today's Adventure: Counterspy chief David Harding investigates a charity that claims to help disabled veterans and workers prepare for new careers. When a courageous insider exposes the organization's true purpose, Harding devises a plan to protect the legitimate cause while bringing a confidence man to justice. Original Radio Broadcast: September 8, 1949 Originating from New York Starring Don Mac...

Today's Mystery: An international smuggling ring is threatened when a federal grand jury closes in on one of its American front companies. To cover their tracks, the organization's ruthless mastermind summons a professional arsonist to destroy the evidence before Counterspy agents can stop them. Original Radio Broadcast: March 14, 1950 Originating in New York Starring Don MacLaughlin as David Hard...

Today's Adventure: After the notorious Professor Emery Horn escapes from death row through an astonishing feat of planning and deception, David Harding and Harry Peters launch a nationwide hunt for the brilliant killer. Realizing conventional police methods won't be enough, Harding instead searches for the one clue Horn can't disguise—his own mind. Original Radio Broadcast: September 1, 1949 Origi...

Today's Adventure: Professor Emery Horn has spent years cultivating the reputation of a brilliant but reclusive scientist. When a Counterspy agent arrives to question him about a daring bank robbery, Horn launches an elaborate escape that sets David Harding and Harry Peters on the trail of one of the most dangerous and ingenious criminals they've ever faced. Original Radio Broadcast: August 30, 19...

Today's Adventure: After an undercover counterspy agent narrowly survives an assassination attempt, David Harding sends Harry Peters to assume his identity and infiltrate a dangerous espionage ring. As Peters follows a trail of coded messages from Detroit to Memphis and on to New Orleans, he finds himself surrounded by people who may be allies—or assassins. Original Radio Broadcast: August 25, 194...

Today's Adventure: After a daring daylight bank robbery leaves two people dead and several wounded, Counterspy agents launch a citywide manhunt for a ruthless gunman known for taking impossible risks. As the killer fights his way through police roadblocks, waterfront hideouts, and a crowded amusement park, David Harding and his agents race to stop him before more innocent people are caught in the...

Today's Adventure: Counterspy agents launch an elaborate sting operation to trap the mysterious Manuel Rodriguez, a wealthy Mexican rancher suspected of brokering stolen atomic secrets and international espionage. Posing as crooks who have stolen a valuable uranium compound, Peters and Agent Ella Thomas risk their lives to convince Rodriguez they have something worth killing for. Original Radio Br...

Today's Adventure: When a respected Mexican businessman suddenly reappears at the home of the woman he loves, it is only because a mysterious religious statue he once gave away may now be carrying a deadly secret. As a pair of ruthless spies race to recover it, David Harding and the Counter Spies investigate the theft of radioactive material from a Tennessee atomic plant before it can be smuggled...

Today's Adventure A smooth-talking con man pitches a powerful crime boss on a new kind of protection racket—one built not on violence, but on rumors capable of destroying major corporations. When businesses begin collapsing under whispered accusations and public panic, CounterSpy chief David Harding races to expose the mastermind behind the scheme before more companies are ruined. Original Radio B...

Today's Adventure: A truck driver is blackmailed into covering the identity of a hijacker and murderer. Original Radio Broadcast: August 9, 1949 Originating in New York Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters, Ken Lynch To subscribe to this podcast and, go to https://greatadventures.info/ Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net...

Today's Adventure: David Harding takes on a hate group that has inspired the beating of a local shopkeeper. Original Radio Broadcast:February 24, 1949 Originating from New York Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Mandel Kramer as Peters; Ken Lynch To subscribe to this podcast and, go to https://greatadventures.info/ Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at https://patreon.greatdetect...

Today's Adventure: Harding and Peters go to Mexico to intercept spies trying to gain control of a new Uranium supply. Original Radio Broadcast: February 22, 1949 Originating in New York Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters Joan Alexander To subscribe to this podcast and, go to https://greatadventures.info/ Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at https://patreon...

Today's Adventure: An escaped criminal disfigures his own face to get plastic surgery to claim a $250,000 Original Radio Broadcast: June 6, 1948 Originating in New York Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters, Bryna Rayburn, Chuck Webster To subscribe to this podcast and, go to https://greatadventures.info/ Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at https://patreon.g...

Today's Adventure: A gang of bank robbers pretend to be a film crew as a cover for a robbery. Original Radio Broadcast: May 30, 1948 Originating in New York Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters To subscribe to this podcast and, go to https://greatadventures.info/ Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a o...

Today's Adventure: Counterspy is called in to investigate a shady home developer who has Original Radio Broadcast: May 23, 1948 Originating in New York Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters To subscribe to this podcast and, go to https://greatadventures.info/ Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-ti...

Today's Adventure: A woman who runs a New York auto theft racket and her sister get caught up in a web of intrigue and murder after doing business with a Chicago gang leader. Rehearsal of Program that Aired July 27, 1946 Originating from New York Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Mandel Kramer as Peters; Ralph Bell To subscribe to this podcast and, go to  https://greatadventures.info/ Bec...

Today's Adventure: A spy plans to use a dog to destroy a critical research facility. Original Radio Broadcast: July 25, 1945 Originating from New York Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Maurice Tarplin To subscribe to this podcast and, go to  https://greatadventures.info/ Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basi...