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Address Unknown

1967 · 32 episodes · 124 listens

The cases were wide and varied with real people from all walks of life but for obvious reasons their names and addresses have been changed. Lionel Stevens plays the roll of Henry SImon who runs a missing persons agency.

Cast & Crew

CColgateGGrace GibsonProducerLLionel StevensActorRRoss NapierWriterJJoe McCormickActorRRay BarrettActorHHart McGuireActor

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Episodes

31:27
Henry Simon from the missing persons bureau is called upon to find Steven Bartlett by his wife, Ruth as he has been…
25:24
The German invasion and subsequent occupation of Denmark during World War II has been the subject of many books and…
26:10
Julius Babcock was a man to be feared, a man whose path one simply could not afford to cross. One of the wealthiest…
26:51
It was a Monday morning in the spring of 1952 when Mrs Audrey Heathcott called into the office of Henry Simon to engage…
26:55
His name was Julian Frost but most people in the neighborhood referred to him simply as "the old soldier" a title which…
25:58
Twenty eight year old Jullian Penmark was a firebug who after a nervous breakdown spent five months in a sanitarium but…
26:37
A man leaves home unaccountably taking is three children with him. His disappearance is duly investigated and it…
28:09
It's surprising the number of well known people who disappear from time to time. In some cases famous personalities…
27:09
Cora Wakefield is 26 years old and has been married for 7 years and has four children. She leaves her home saying she…
26:51
Elliot Dryden is quite an eccentric and at times he needs to be protected from himself. Colette Renoir is his excellent…
25:37
For Charlie Porter fighting was everything until a tragic blow rendered him with a brain tumor. However Charlie didn't…
25:30
George Adamson was worried about his son Chris after he disappeared following an argument over money. George wanted his…
29:39
In times of war and international unrest, there are obviously a great number of disappearances and unaccounted for…
26:54
Full bloodied Tarokee Indian named Big Bull Arrowhead, from the reservation in Springflats in Oregon arrived at in New…
26:54
For the last seven years successful novelist Howard Mossman has played the role of the perfect husband. he's been…
26:02
It is October 1956 and Ron Elliott, a youth of the post war generation, was a young man born with a chip on his…
26:44
The Reverend John Crane was new to the church and very well liked especially by his housekeeper, Emily Goodacre. She…
26:38
Mr Karadine has called upon the services of Henry Simon's missing persons bureau to investigate the disappearance of…
27:35
For the missing persons bureau this case had its beginnings in October 1947. Oscar Masters was keen to trace a German…
25:56
In 1937 Waldo Emerson Farnsworth was arrested for fraud and sentenced to fifteen years in jail. Farnsworth was released…
26:28
Henry Simon from the missing persons bureau is called upon to find Helen Kapping by her husband, Lindsay. He first met…
26:50
It is 1952 and 10 years ago Ronald Marsdon was pronounced dead having failed to bail out from his bombed aircraft.…
26:19
There's an old Chinese proverb, A man takes a drink, the drink takes a drink, the drink takes a man. To the moderate…
28:39
Roy Weston works for a company in London and had an appointment to see a client in Germany. He told his wife he would…
27:02
This story is a dramatization of a real case of a missing person taken from the Missing Persons Bureau files in London…
Jan 1, 1967 · 25:33
This story is a dramatization of a real case of a missing person taken from the Missing Persons Bureau files in London…
Jan 1, 1967 · 26:23
Since his mother died when he was just five years old David Paxton's father, Sir Maxwell Paxton, has let him do exactly…
Jan 1, 1967 · 26:50
The story opens at Croydon Airport on June 8th 1953. There is a crowd of newspaper photographers and reporters had…
Jan 1, 1967 · 26:53
Anthony Swanson is a schoolboy who goes through a reckoning with his father at the end of every school term, when his…
Jan 1, 1967 · 26:08
In is inherent in our natures that we should support the underdog of any particular struggle or contest we might happen…
Jan 1, 1967 · 26:59
At 11:10am on 7th March 1944 two men walked slowly up a garden path. Their orders were to arrest the occupant of the…
Jan 1, 1967 · 26:15
Oswald Sweeney's wife, Ellen, has left home unexpectedly. She has been gone for five days now from their home in…
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