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The Cape Or The Shroud (1950) *The Exact Date Is Unknown.
From 1949-1956 the Mutual Broadcasting System ran a series entitled John Steele, Adventurer. This was an anthology series, introduced by the title character, who has apparently had trouble keeping a job: he served at various times as ship's captain, baseball league president, county sheriff, State Department special agent in Turkey, etc. Each story is told from the point of view of the main character, a friend of Steele's. Steele himself makes cameo appearances in the series. The series featured Ted Mallie as the announcer (Mallie also announced for The Shadow and I Love A Mystery) and Don Douglas as John Steele, and was directed by Elliot Drake. It often promised “suspense and hard, fast action,” and nearly always delivered. It had excellent production values, and its plots that were often complex. The stories are reminiscent of pulp stories from magazines like Argosy or All-Story. They represent a wide variety of stories from sports stories to mountain climbing to western-flavored stories. One of the more interesting stories features a boy who is a deaf-mute under the heel of a proud and domineering farmer father. It was certainly ambitious to feature a character who cannot speak for himself. The producers used an echo chamber effect to represent the inner voice of the young man as he endlessly repeated the phrase "no one" signifying that he could rely on "no one." As John Steele would often say at the end of one of his stories, "A life of adventure is yours for the asking, but don't look for it; it may find you! Happy hunting!"