Becker
Created by Martin Kitsch

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."

And so he's a house dick who, like the hotel, is a little out of place. It seems Becker has a few surprises in his past: a fancy eastern education, a stint as a mountain guide, of all things, and a tragedy that haunts him. and so he throews 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 as cool head.

Becker was part of CBC Radio's Mystery Project, a regular anthology that also hosted Midnight Cab and Flynn. That's about all I could find on this one -- if any of you out there can fill in the blanks, we'd appreciate it.

RADIO

• BECKER: HOUSE DETECTIVE
  (1996, CBC)
  13 episodes
  Created and written by Martin Kitsch
  Produced and directed by Martin Fishman.
  Starring Andy Maton as Becker--'Just 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)
• "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)
• (June 15, 1996)
• (June 22, 1996)
• (June 29, 1996)

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. Thanks to Geoff Loker, who helped out with this one.