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Rogue's Gallery is a detective drama radio program centered around Richard Rogue, a private detective who typically encounters beautiful women while on cases. Throughout each episode, Rogue loses consciousness and converses with his alter ego, Eugor, who offers him crucial information to solve the case. The program maintains a relatively lighthearted tone, similar to Dick Powell's later series, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. In addition to Powell, actors such as Barry Sullivan, Chester Morris, and Paul Stewart also portrayed the role of Rogue in later iterations of the series.

First airing on the Mutual network on September 27, 1945, Rogue's Gallery went on to broadcast on NBC and ABC networks as well. The show, initially titled as Bandwagon Mysteries, had a total of four seasons, with the final full season airing on ABC from 1950 to 1951. Throughout its run, the series was sponsored by the F. W. Fitch company, which sold Fitch Saponified Shampoo. Rogue's Gallery was a summer replacement for The Fitch Bandwagon show in the years 1945, 1946, and 1947.

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