It's a Crime, Mr. Collins is a half-hour mystery/adventure radio program that was broadcast weekly from August 1956 to February 1957 by the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States that was a "flagrant rip-off of The Adventures of the Abbotts in which only the names had been changed.
Each week, Gail Collins, "the gumshoe's gorgeous spouse—with green-eyed predilections emerging as curvaceous damsels in distress frequently petitioned her husband—shared his investigative exploits with her Uncle Jack and thereby with the listeners at home.
Kramer had also played on Mr. and Mrs. North in the comedic supporting role of Brooklyn taxi driver Mahatma McGloin.
The series was resurrected by NBC in 1955 under the new title of The Adventures of the Abbotts and this nudged Mutual into producing a copycat show, It's a Crime, Mr.
The Abbotts on NBC were copied exactly in Mutual's It's a Crime, Mr. Collins, including paraphrasing (the original author's) words.