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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 64 - Not Easy Being Green (Green Lama)

Broadcast on:
29 Jun 2014

Paul Frees stars as Jethro Dumont, the wealthy American who studied Buddhism in Tibet and returned to his home country to fight crime as The Green Lama. This short-lived series brought the pulp magazine and comic book hero to radio and found him tackling adventures and mysteries all around the world. We'll hear him in "The Story of the Last Dinosaur," originally aired on CBS on July 3, 1949.