Starting in 1980 with KIRO-AM’s Mystery Playhouse, and later branching out into independent syndication with Jim French’s Imagination Theatre broadcast on over 120 stations in the United States and Canada, Jim and his troupe of stalwart players (including many Seattle Local members, in addition to numerous Hollywood celebrities), kept alive the nearly extinct art of the radio drama.Īlthough he showed an interest in radio from an early age and worked in the industry for several years prior to arriving in the Pacific Northwest, his local career started in 1952 at KING-AM, moving to KIRO in 1959, and later to KVI-AM, where he first started producing dramatic radio programs under the Imagination Theatre banner. Phil Harper is back as Nile, with Pat French as Murphy, in these hard-boiled cases for hard luck customers.On March 31, the offices of Jim French Productions/Imagination Theatre formally closed its doors, bringing to an end a nearly four-decade-long run of producing, writing, directing and airing original recorded radio dramas. Get set for radio excitement the way you like it best-with The Adventures of Harry Nile!Įpisodes Include: Deadline For Murder 08-01-1993 Aloha Means Goodbye 09-05-1993 The Case Of The Sinister Scavengers 10-03-1993 Almost As Good As New 11-07-1993 Murphy: Wanted For Murder 01-09-1994 The Case Of The Ten-Story Tombstone 02-06-1994 The McLaughlin Matter 03-06-1994 The Hour of My Death 04-10-1994 Funeral At Midnight 05-08-1994 Solitaire Sam 06-05-1994 The Case Of The Fisheye Murders 07-31-1994 The Case Of The Sinister Minister 08-07-1994 The Case Of The Sands of Time 10-09-1994 The Meatloaf Matter 11-06-1994 The Case Of The Baffled Ballerina 12-04-1994 The Case Of The Dominant Seventh 01-01-1995 Osterman's Dreams 02-05-1995 Third Floor Rear 03-05-1995 Harry Goes Underground 04-02-1995 The Sam Navola Matter 05-05-1995 Blues for Maggie Brown 06-04-1995 My Kid, The Cop 07-02-1995 The Case Of The Missing Matisse 08-06-1995 The Dollar Value of Death 09-03-1995 Phil Harper is back as Nile, with Pat French as Murphy, in these hard-boiled cases for hard luck customers.

From the imagination of Seattle-based writer-producer Jim French come twenty-four tense, exciting radio thrillers produced in the classic style by modern talent.

Either way, he's Pacific Northwestern private eye Harry Nile.

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