{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Presenting the Transcription Feature 176: JEFF REGAN & MY FRIEND IRMA","description":"As we approach Thanksgiving, we\u2019re going to start off with a Turkey Day-themed crime drama and then then a comedy.  \u201cJeff Regan, Investigator\u201d starred Jack Webb as a private investigator working for the International Detective Bureau.  The show just barely pre-dates \u201cDragnet,\u201d and Webb\u2019s Regan is even drier in delivery than Joe Friday, and more sarcastically verbose.  In tonight\u2019s episode, he\u2019s dispatched to retrieve a turkey from a mysterious estate, and finds murder and mayhem.  Then \u201cMy Friend Irma\u201d was one of those radio comedies that spawned a whole franchise.  The series centers on the comic mis-adventures of two single girls sharing an apartment in the big city.  Each episode is narrated by the bright, reliable Jane Stacy.  It\u2019s never long before her friend and roommate, the pretty, but scatterbrained, Irma Peterson, gets everyone into some sort of wacky situation.  This time, it\u2019s planning a Thanksgiving dinner. Episodes Jeff Regan, Investigator November 20, 1948 \u201cThe Pilgrim\u2019s Progress\u201d 2:38 My Friend Irma November 15, 1948 \u201cThanksgiving Turkey\u201d aka \u201cThanksgiving is Approaching\u201d 33:54 ","author_name":"The Chronic Rift Network","author_url":"http:\/\/chronicriftnetwork.libsyn.com","html":"