Needle In The Haystack: Let George Do It (January 2, 1950)

“Needle In The Haystack” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 2, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

George Valentine is hired by Ferdinand Bass, a rose grower from Mexico City, to find his dozen prized Ferdinando roses that were stolen during delivery to the Pasadena Rose Festival. The roses were sent by air express but never arrived, and when George and Bass trace the package to a local flower shop, they find it ransacked with the flowers missing and the shop owner's brother Joshua vanished with the owner's car.

Pasadena, California, during the Rose Festival weekend; includes George's office, a flower shop, and various delivery locations

Characters: George Valentine, Ferdinand Bass, Brooks, Theodore Herman, Joshua Herman, Delivery clerk

Listen for: George's investigation into the mysterious disappearance of the valuable roses and his discovery that the package was misdirected to a flower shop called 'The Flower Vase'; the appearance of a rough character hiding in the shop who escapes after threatening George

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.