OTR Detective Christmas, Day 7: Candy Matson

Candy Matson is a fun radio detective series that aired on NBC around 1949-1951. The series was both recorded at and set within the city of San Francisco. The program had a lot of hardboiled content yet also a very wry, sarcastic sense of humour. I hope to feature one of my Radio Recaps on this series in the new year.

In the December 10, 1949 episode "Jack Frost," a department store's Jack Frost goes missing. It isn't a tradition I'm familiar with, but it seems some department stores used a Jack Frost figure instead of Santa Claus himself. Anyway, Candy looks for the missing Jack Frost and finds him dead, then recruits her friend Rembrandt to assume the role of Jack Frost while she hunts the killer.

Another Christmas radio program tomorrow!