Sucker Bait: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (June 9, 1955)

“Sucker Bait” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 9, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Barry Craig investigates widespread rumors of game-fixing at Blankhurst College after the basketball team loses to an inferior opponent. The dean hires Craig to look into possible bribery and dumping, especially when the team inexplicably loses again the following night to an even weaker team in front of a crowd filled with notorious gamblers and fixers.

Blankhurst College and its basketball arena, a college town

Characters: Barry Craig, Dean John, Chris Frank, Sandy Bigelow, Sophie Slater, Tony Capron, Vince Bartlett, Johnny Minton

Listen for: Barry Craig's investigation into whether players are throwing games for gamblers; the suspicious benching of star player Snovski in the second game; the tension between the dean, coach, and players as Craig questions them.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.