George is correct! The Ricardos!
"Friend of those who have no friend"
Well, I'm thinking of a TV show, but I believe it was originally on radio.
Not Sam Spade, but in the crime drama department.
Richard Diamond, Master Detective
Something Theatre (not Masterpiece) --- wasn't there a radio/TV show that did a play a week? I that it George?
I bet Joanne means The GE Theater.
"I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache," sang Jimmy Buffett, "the dada dada kind..."
Yes edgarblythe that would be what I was thinking.
Despite the name of the title character, the show was not set in my part of the country.
This is a hint right George?
Not Quincy.
This was a TV show in the early fifties.
His pencil-thin mustache was referenced in the Jimmy Buffett song "Pencil-thin Mustache"
From his name, you'd think the show was set in an East Coast city, but actually it was set in LA.
Not "The Saint"
He had a dog named "Whitey" (in contrast to his own name).
Howard something was the actor?
Cast:
Kent Taylor as ?
Lois Collier as Mary
Frank Orth as Inspector Faraday
(and, of course, Whitey as the dog)