The New Adventures of Charlie Chan The New Adventures of Charlie Chan The New Adventures of Charlie Chan is a British-American crime drama series that aired in the United States in syndicated television from June 1957, to 1958. The first five episodes were made by Vision Productions in the United States, before production switched to the United Kingdom under ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America. The series, consisting of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes, follows the investigations of the fictional detective Charlie Chan, created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1925. The series follows the convention, established in the Charlie Chan movies, of having the Asian character
Charlie Chan as Lee Chan, Number One Son, and Dorian St. George was the announcer. "Radio Life" magazine described Begley's Chan as "a good radio match for Sidney Toler's beloved film enactment." A "Charlie Chan" comic strip, drawn by Alfred Andriola, was distributed by the McNaught Syndicate beginning 24 October 1938. Andriola was chosen by Biggers to draw the character. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the strip was dropped in May 1942. Over decades, other Charlie Chan comic books have been published: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Prize Comics' "Charlie Chan" (1948) which ran for five issues. It was