Summary: The Case Of The Escaped Nazi Prisoners Of War (Aired April 27, 1945) This Is Your FBI was a radio crime drama which aired in the United States on ABC from April 6, 1945 to January 30, 1953. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover gave it his endorsement, calling it "the finest dramatic program on the air." Producer-director Jerry Devine was given access to FBI files by Hoover, and the resulting dramatizations of FBI cases were narrated by Frank Lovejoy (1945), Dean Carleton (1946-47) and William Woodson (1948-53). Stacy Harris had the lead role of Special Agent Jim Taylor. Others in the cast were William Conrad, Bea Benaderet and Jay C. Flippen. This Is Your FBI was sponsored during its entire run by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (now AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company). This is Your FBI had counterparts on the other networks. The FBI in Peace and War also told stories of the FBI, although some were not authentic. THIS EPISODE: April 27, 1945. Blue Network. "The Case Of The Escaped Nazi Prisoners Of War". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Society. The story of "a peril to the nation." Frank Lovejoy (narrator), Paul Mann, Nathan Van Cleave (music director), Lawrence MacArthur (writer), Jerry Devine (producer), Carl Frank (announcer). 29:28. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
