FOUR-FOOTED SLEUTH
NOTHER Australian thriller production has arrived in New Zealand for the commercial network. Listeners who hear Eyes of Knight at 8.15 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays from’ one of the four ZB stations will see just how far a radio script-writer has to go these days to catch up with an original plot. But Maxwell Dunn, who wrote Eyes of. Knight, has certainly accomplished "his mission," for ‘this story" mu! be the first im»which a dog has played:
the role of hero in a detective story. The dog in this case is Saki, and although the studio cast gives no reallife name for him it. does explain that the dog is aided in nosing out crime by his master, the blind returned serviceman, Bernard Knight, Saki was lent to the producers of this serial (as film studios swap stars at times) by the New South Wales Police Department, but other biographical details are brief. A "seeing-eye" dog in private life, Saki is excellently fitted for this role as "the eyes of Knight." And he is said to have an excellent radio bark. In this, his first dramatic role, Saki steals the show from more experienced actors and figures prominently in the story of those problems with which Bernard Knight and Detective Inspector McLane of Scotland Yard are involved. Eyes of Knigkt will have its first broadcast from 1ZB on Friday, May 23; 2ZB on June 2; 3ZB on June 11; and 4ZB on June 20.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 20
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248FOUR-FOOTED SLEUTH New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 20
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