| Show Name: | Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator |
| Format: | Detective drama |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Syndicates: | NBC |
| Starring: | William Gargan |
| Announcer: | Don Pardo |
| Director: | Himan Brown Arthur Jacobson Andrew C. Love |
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a detective drama heard on NBC Radio from October 3, 1951 to June 30, 1955.[1] Detective Barrie Craig (William Gargan[2]) worked alone from his Madison Avenue office.[1] Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Craig had a laid-back personality, somewhat cutting against the popular hard-boiled detective stereotype. Others in the cast included Ralph Bell, Elspeth Eric, Parker Fennelly, Santos Ortega, Arnold Moss, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg and Betty Lou Gerson.[1]
Don Pardo was the announcer.[3]
Gargan also starred in the role in an unsuccessful 1952 TV pilot[4] written and directed by Blake Edwards. It was presented on ABC's Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as "Death the Hard Way" (October 17, 1954).
John Roeburt was the head writer for the series.[5]
A few years earlier Gargan had played a similar character in Martin Kane, Private Eye.