IT'S A CRIME, MR. COLLINS

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It's a Crime, Mr. Collins was a half-hour mystery/adventure radio program broadcast weekly from August, 1956 to February, 1957 by Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States that was a "flagrant rip-off of The Adventures of the Abbotts in which only the names had been changed."
San Francisco private detective Greg Collins was played by Mandel Kramer (who had previously been heard as Lieutenant Tragg in the radio version of Perry Mason) and his wife, Gail Collins, was played by namesake Gail Collins. Each week, Gail Collins, "the gumshoe's gorgeous spouse -- with green-eyed predilections emerging as curvaceous damsels in distress frequently petitioned her husband -- shared his investigative exploits with her Uncle Jack and thereby with the listeners at home." Uncle Jack was played by Richard Denning, whom listeners had heard from 1952 to 1954 as amateur detective Jerry North in the radio version of Mr. and Mrs. North. Mandel Kramer had also played on Mr. and Mrs. North in the comedic supporting role of Brooklyn taxi driver Mahatma McGloin.

Frances Crane's detective pair, Pat and Jean Abbott ... "came to radio on Abbott Mysteries on Mutual in 1945 and then ran for three consecutive summers. The series was resurrected by NBC in 1955 under the new title of The Adventures of the Abbotts and this nudged Mutual into producing a copycat show under the title It's A Crime, Mr. Collins. "Many programs in the Golden Age of Radio were flattered by their competitors. ... The Abbotts on NBC were copied exactly in Mutual's It's A Crime, Mr. Collins, including paraphrasing (the original author's) words." "Mutual even used ... the habit of putting a color in the title of every story.
 

EPISODES LIST

It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-03-04 Paper Bag, The (Brown Paper Bag)
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-03-11 Bowl of Temple Fire Red
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-03-25 Green Stop Light, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-04-01 Dull Blue Treasure, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-04-08 Death Wore Green
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-04-15 Chrome Yellow Death, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-04-29 White Plumes, Red Blood
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-05-06 Brown Alligator Briefcase, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-06-24 Ghost In The Sea Blue Dress, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-07-15 Burnt Copper Powder, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-07-29 Bullet Grey Cottage, The [Bullet Gray Cottage]
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-08-19 Murder of the Fabulous Redhead, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-08-26 Pink Elephant, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-09-02 Fabulous Emerald Necklace, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-09-09 Death White Lifeboat, The [Dead White Lifeboat]
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-09-16 Green-Eyed Divorcee, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-09-30 Clue of the Ivory Thread, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-10-28 Red Hot Mama, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-12-02 Green Eyed Dragon, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-12-09 Yellow Streak, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 57-12-23 Pink Lady, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins 58-01-20 Rockabye Murder, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins xx-xx-xx Blue Steel Fountain Pen, The
It's A Crime, Mr Collins xx-xx-xx Lost Film, The
 

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