DOSSIER ON DEMETRIUS RADIO SERIAL SERIALThat said, despite Keen’s thickness, the serial is nonetheless an entertaining cat and mouse game that’s worth a listen. The only other downside was that many of the characters such as Sally Wright and the fat little French Men get lost in the script. DOSSIER ON DEMETRIUS RADIO SERIAL SERIESHowever, the fact remains that the vast majority of the numerous deaths in this series are the results of Keen’s uncanny naiveté and incompetence. She does show some redeeming qualities towards the end of the series. Keen’s opinion of Heddy is not entirely unjustified. His hurt feelings allow him to let Dumetrius and his accomplice get close enough to an unconscious Heddy to put a knife to her throat, and the villains escape due to Dumetrius’ threat to kill Heddy. And after Keen does realize that Heddy is playing him and she is captured unconscious. With MI-5 having tapped her phone, Heddy takes refuge at Keen’s house during the day and is able to use Keen’s phone while he’s out to contact Dumetrius. When Coutts gets Heddy in his basement for interrogation at the moment she’s about to crack, Keen rescues her. The story is set in Post War London and tells of the search for missing Nazi loot which was brought into England by a mysterious, vicious criminal Dumetrius. While everyone else can obviously see Heddy is playing him for a sucker, including Coutts, the good Major remains oblivious. In part twenty, Coutts goes out after hours to investigate and makes more progress in that one episode than Keen had in the prior nineteen. Then, he falls for Heddy Bergner and quickly acts more like a twelve year old boy in love with a circus bareback ride than an agent of MI-5. First he engages in a pursuit of Peter Ridgeway, a man obviously in the wrong place at the wrong time. The great downside of the series is the character of Keen who for the first seventy percent of the serial isn’t too kean at all. Series Star Bruce Stewart was a native of New Zealand and it’s said that parliament adjourned early that day to hear the concluding episode. Like all good serial dramas, Dossier on Dumetrius is highly addictive with well-written and well-timed cliffhangers that keep you chomping at the bit, excited to find out more. At the same time, Keen has fallen hard for femme fatale Heddy Bergner, one of Dumetrius’ cohorts. We follow Major Gregory Keen (Bruce Stewart) of MI-5 as he follow Dumetrius’ trail with the aid of Sgt. DOSSIER ON DEMETRIUS RADIO SERIAL FULLIt’s 104 part epic that is chock full of action, suspense, and foreign intrigue. This 1951 Australian radio production has a lot to commend it. Dumetrius seeks to kill off anyone who saw him on the flight other than his confederates and collect one million pounds of stolen Nazi loot. However, MI-5 discovers that he committed a murder in killing an officer in Berlin. In Dossier on Dumetrius, an International criminal known as Dumetrius comes to London from occupied Berlin. THE GREAT DETECTIVES of Old Time Radio With Host Adam Graham Main menu Skip to content
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