The Witness Saw Nothing: Nick Carter, Master Detective (February 24, 1946)

“The Witness Saw Nothing” is an episode of Nick Carter, Master Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 24, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Nick Carter investigates when a vacuum cleaner salesman named Albert Higgins comes to him claiming he has survived three suspicious accidents in one day. Carter suspects these are no accidents but deliberate murder attempts, and he must discover why someone wants Higgins dead and what connection exists to a nearby crime.

New York City, including a house on London Lane, a subway platform, an office, and city streets

Characters: Nick Carter, Albert Higgins, Barbara, Wilson

Listen for: The dramatic confrontation between criminals and an elderly landlady, the vacuum cleaner salesman's narrow escapes, and Nick Carter's deduction that accidents are actually murder attempts

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.