Becker House Detective

The hero of Becker: House Detective, another CBC radio series, BECKER clues us in on his lot in life:

"The Queen of the Rockies. A Grand Hotel. About the last thing you'd expect to find in the Rockies in 1923, but then I may be the last thing you'd expect to find in a Grand Hotel. I'm the House Detective. Becker's the name. Just Becker."

So he's a 1920s house dick who, like the hotel, is a little out of place. It seems Becker has a few surprises in his past: a fancy pants eastern education (which, even then, must have gone over real well in Alberta), a stint as a mountain guide, of all things, and a tragedy that haunts him. and so he throws himself into his work, trying to protect the hotel and its guests from all sorts of trouble. And oh what guests! Film stars, American senators, European explorers, con men, flappers and maybe, just maybe, a gangster or two. Through it all, Becker tries to keep a cool head.

·         BECKER: HOUSE DETECTIVE
(1996, CBC)
13 episodes
Created and written by Martin Kitsch
Produced and directed by Martin Fishman.
Starring Andy Maton as BECKER
Stephen Haire as Dickey
and David Lorrainey as Francois
Hosted by Bob Boving
Period music arranged by Miles Jackson

"A View of Mount Von Relling" (April 6, 1996)

"The Wicked World of Mary Hunter" (April 13, 1996)

Take a trip back in time to the 1920s tonight when The
Mystery Project presents Episode Two of Becker. Becker is
the House Detective at a luxurious resort in the Rockies.
And this week, he finds intrigue and villainy mixed into a
dish that's hard to swallow. That's this evening on
the Mystery Project at 6:30 (7:30 AT, 8:00 NT) on CBC Radio.

"Pearl" (April 20, 1996)

."Hotels Are My Life" (April 27, 1996)

"A Single Green Feather" (May 4, 1996)

"A Friend From Chicago" (May 11, 1996)

"An Expensive Bottle of Poison" (May 18, 1996)

"Only Poetry" (May 25, 1996)

"A Long, Long Trail" (June 1, 1996)

"White Lightning" (June 8, 1996)

"The Magistrate Arrives On Wednesday" (June 15, 1996)

"The Hunt" (June 22, 1996)

'The Kill" (June 29, 1996)

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