The Lady with the Golden Hair: Jeff Regan, Investigator Singles (July 31, 1948)

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“The Lady with the Golden Hair” is an episode of Jeff Regan, Investigator Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 31, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Private investigator Jeff Regan takes on the case of Max Bladney, a Hollywood makeup artist at Imperial Studios who arrives at the International Detective Bureau with a stack of bullets dug from his door and a request for protection. Regan and his employer, Anthony J. Lyon, soon learn that Bladney has been shot at in his home on Mulholland Drive. Regan chases a gray-haired gunman who escapes in an old convertible, and a blonde woman who says she is Bladney's wife arrives at the house. The episode is part of the Jeff Regan, Investigator series and first aired on 1948-07-31, with Jack Webb in the title role.

Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills, including Mulholland Drive, a Hollywood studio, a hospital and a police station

Characters: Jeff Regan, Anthony J. Lyon, Max Bladney, Pete Burger, Flossie, Lieutenant Salvatore Winetti, Joe Canto, Hilda Graham

Listen for: The gunshots at Max Bladney's house and the sound of the gray-haired gunman's car escaping down the hill

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.