Summary: Salvage (Aired December 3, 1949) From 1949-1956 the Mutual Broadcasting System ran a series entitled John Steele, Adventurer. This was an anthology series, introduced by the title character, who has apparently had trouble keeping a job: he served at various times as ship's captain, baseball league president, county sheriff, State Department special agent in Turkey, etc. Each story is told from the point of view of the main character, a friend of Steele's. Steele himself makes cameo appearances in the series. The series featured Ted Mallie as the announcer (Mallie also announced for The Shadow and I Love A Mystery) and Don Douglas as John Steele, and was directed by Elliot Drake. It often promised “suspense and hard, fast action,” and nearly always delivered. It had excellent production values, and its plots that were often complex. The stories are reminiscent of pulp stories from magazines like Argosy or All-Story. THIS EPISODE: December 3, 1949. Mutual network. "Salvage". Sustaining. "A man with a dream, locked in the icy depths of the ocean." Don Douglas, Sylvan Levin (conductor), Robert Monroe (producer), Elliott Drake (writer, director), Jim Boles, Abby Lewis, Ross Martin, Jack Orison, Ted Mallie (announcer). 29:44.
