Summary: The Eyes Of Buddha (Aired July 2, 1950) This is the story of the WWII special governmental agency, the OSS, or Office of Strategic Services. Its mission was to develop and maintain spy networks throughout Europe and into Asia, while giving aid to underground partisan groups and developing espionage activities for Allied forces overseas.The show is based on the book of the same name by Lt. Col. Corey Ford and Major Alastair MacBain (who were associated with the OSS from its early days.) The dramas are not Hollywood-style, in that they sometimes end with plans foiled or leading characters dead. THIS EPISODE: July 2, 1950. NBC network. "The Eyes Of Buddha". Sustaining. 4:00 P. M. is preceded by a news bulletin: "Seoul Korea has been raided by American and Australian war planes. One of two North Korean planes shot down had a Russian red star." An O. S. S. operative flies to Siam to rescue an American held by the Japanese. After witnessing a Japanese decapitation, a daring escape is made from a Japanese prison camp. Part of the system cue has been deleted. Jerry Jarrett, Jon Gart (music director), Sherman Marks (director, supervisor), Everett Sloane, Ralph Bell, Berry Kroeger, Raymond Edward Johnson, Eileen Heckart, Martin Balsam, Winifred Wolfe (writer), Jack Gordon (writer), Corey Ford (originator), Alistair MacBain (originator), Louis G. Cowan (producer), Alfred Hollander (producer), Grant Richards, Karl Weber. 28:33. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
