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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

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

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 240 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for thrills, chills, and spills with trick-or-treat tales both scary and silly in the annual Down These Mean Streets Halloween special! Ray Milland reprises his big screen role as The Screen Director's Playhouse presents "The Uninvited" (originally aired on NBC on November 18, 1949). Then, two radio gumshoes face off against things that go bump in the night: The Saint in "The Ghosts Who Came to Dinner" (originally aired on NBC on April 8, 1951) and Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator in "Ghosts Don't Die in Bed" (originally aired on NBC on September 7, 1954). J. Carrol Naish stars in a heartwarming and hilarious Halloween episode of Life with Luigi (originally aired on CBS on October 30, 1951), and William Conrad leads an expedition in the Himalayas to capture "The Abominable Snowman" on Escape (originally aired on CBS on September 13, 1953). Ozzie and Harriet have a haunted house adventure (originally aired on NBC on October 31, 1948), and Bob Hope recreates his horror-comedy classic in "The Ghost Breakers" from Screen Director's Playhouse (originally aired on NBC on June 14, 1951). Finally, the syndicated anthology The Weird Circle presents one of the classic horror stories - Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."

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0:00.0	How do you do? Mr. Carl Lemley feels it would be a little unkind to present this picture without just a word of friendly warning. I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not
0:18.9	care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now is your chance to well we've formed you
0:28.7	happy Halloween and welcome to the annual Down These Mean Streets Halloween Special. And you're in luck because I'm the house on the block that gives out king-sized episodes
0:46.1	full of comedy, mystery, and even some outright horror designed to get you in the trick-or-treating spirit.
0:54.4	We're going to start things off today with Ray Mulan
0:57.4	reprising his role as the screen director's playhouse presents the Uninvited, a radio recreation of a classic Hollywood ghost story.
1:09.0	Then we'll hear as a pair of radio detectives, the saint and Barry Craig, deal with ghost stories of their own.
1:17.0	After that, Jay Carroll Nash stars in a heartwarming Halloween installment of life with Luigi and William Conrad leads an
1:26.4	expedition to capture a monster as escape presents the abominable snowman.
1:35.0	Then Ozzy and Harriet have an adventure in a haunted house,
1:38.0	and Bob Hope has one of his own,
1:41.0	in a radio recreation of his horror comedy classic The Ghost Breakers.
1:47.0	And finally, The Weird Circle dramatizes one of the all-time great scary stories Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
1:57.0	So now turn down the lights and grab your favorite candy
2:02.0	as we kick off our old time radio Halloween celebration.
2:12.1	From Hollywood, the Screen Directors Playhouse.
2:15.0	Screen Directors Playhouse.
2:17.0	Screen Directors Playhouse, Star Ray Muland, production The Uninvited, Director Louis Allen. The Hollywood Screen directors present a tale for Troubled Midnight.
2:45.0	The Motion Picture Drama The Uninvited, starring Ray Muland in his original role of Rick Fitzgerald. Oh, no. Oh, no.
3:04.0	Oh,
3:05.0	Oh,
3:07.0	Oh,
	...

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