Photographer's Card: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (March 26, 1950)

“Photographer's Card” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 26, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Streetside photographer George Phipps gives Richard Diamond a mysterious calling card containing a negative, claiming he's being tailed. After Phipps is murdered, Diamond discovers the negative shows two criminals and a man with a briefcase caught in the background of an innocent street photograph. Diamond must identify the killers and uncover what they were protecting before the case closes.

New York City streets, Diamond's office, Phipps' apartment on Bleaker Street, the Speedy Photo Lab, and a hotel on 25th Street

Characters: Richard Diamond, Walt Levinson, George Phipps, Tony Payton, Louie Rousso, Andrew Troop, Fran, Sergeant Otis

Listen for: The clever plot device of an innocent street photograph capturing evidence of a crime; Diamond's witty banter with Lieutenant Levinson and his secretary Fran; the final comedic scene at a bowling alley where Fran critiques Diamond's street dialect.

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.