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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

BONUS - Give Thanks for Gumshoes

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6982 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving! For your listening pleasure as you travel, prepare the holiday meal, or just enjoy some well-deserved time off, here's an encore presentation of last year's Turkey Day special. It's a collection of Thanksgiving-themed mysteries starring some of my favorite old time radio detectives with a few special guests dropping in for some musical and comedic performances. 

We've got a pair of adventures of Casey, Crime Photographer - "After Turkey, the Bill" (originally aired on CBS on November 27, 1947), and "Holiday" (originally aired on CBS on November 25, 1948). Jack Webb encounters a modern-day Miles Standish and a turkey shoot more dangerous for man than bird in "The Pilgrim's Progress" from Jeff Regan, Investigator (originally aired on CBS on November 13, 1948). Bob Bailey stars in "Cause for Thanksgiving" from Let George Do It (originally aired on Mutual on November 20, 1950), and Steve Dunne stars as Sam Spade and helps save a Tom Turkey who walks on two legs in "The Terrified Turkey Caper" (originally aired on NBC on November 24, 1950). 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Get this and get it straight.

0:02.1

Crime is a sucker's road.

0:03.9

And those who travel

0:04.6

it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

0:12.3

The story you were about to hear is true.

0:15.3

Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

0:18.7

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.

0:21.8

The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price.

0:25.5

Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.

0:30.6

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...

0:33.4

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

1:02.3

... Yours truly, Johnny Duller. Recently, in a big eastern city, a group of trained men and women called on thousands of housewives and asked this simple question.

1:06.2

What kind of container do you prefer for the food you buy?

1:11.9

An overwhelming majority of housewives said they preferred to buy food packed in glass.

1:15.0

Among them were a great many mothers of small children,

1:17.7

and by a ratio of more than eight to one,

1:22.3

these mothers said they insisted on prepared baby foods packed in glass.

1:24.7

They gave many reasons, as you might expect.

1:34.5

But here are the three reasons mentioned most frequently. glass lets you see what you buy before you buy it second you can heat serve and store leftover portions of prepared baby food in the same

1:39.4

glass container and third these young mothers agreed that sterilized glass containers are cleaner and more sanitary. You can buy an increasing number of the better brands of food packed in glass, and all of the better brands of prepared baby food come to you in anchor glass containers sealed with Tampa proof anchor vacuum caps.

2:01.8

Both products of anchor hawking.

2:04.6

There's a common phrase that's being kicked around in your house and mine more and more every day,

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