Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio

Counterspy: Flatbush Fagin (A0112)

Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio

Show Notes

Today's Adventure: Counterspy chief David Harding tackles a different kind of threat when a juvenile court official asks for help breaking the grip of violent street gangs on Brooklyn's youth. Undercover operative Harry Peters infiltrates one of the toughest gangs, hoping to expose its ruthless leader before more impressionable boys are drawn into a life of crime.

Original Radio Broadcast:Septemnber 13, 1949

Originating from New York

Cast:Don MacLaughlin as David Harding

Mandel Kramer as Harry PetersDirected by Leonard L. Bass

Dramatized by Edward Adamson

Music by Jesse Crawford

A Philip H. Lord production for Pepsi-Cola

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