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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 536 - Doctors in the House (Broadway is My Beat, Johnny Dollar, & Dragnet)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

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

4.6982 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Doctor, doctor - give me the news. We've got three old time radio mysteries involving physicians - some good, some bad, but all in the middle of crimes that our heroes must solve. First, a doctor drops dead in Danny Clover's office on Broadway is My Beat (originally aired on CBS on August 4, 1949). Next, Charles Russell investigates a doctor who may be criminally negligent in "An Apple a Day Sent the Doctor Away" from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (originally aired on CBS on October 15, 1949). Finally, Sgt. Joe Friday's prime suspect has an unshakable alibi from his doctor in "The Big Impossible" from Dragnet (originally aired on NBC on March 15, 1953).

Transcript

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Get this and get it straight.

0:02.0

Crime is a sucker's road,

0:04.0

and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

0:07.0

The story you're about to hear is true. The

0:12.5

The story you were about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

0:18.5

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

0:21.5

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize.

0:25.0

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

0:30.0

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator

0:33.2

yours truly Johnny Deller The Hello and welcome to down these mean streets and more crime solvers from the golden age of radio.

1:03.0

And today's show, Mystery mixes with medicine,

1:06.0

as three old time radio detectives investigate cases involving physicians.

1:12.0

Sometimes they're suspect, involving physicians.

1:13.0

Sometimes they're suspect, sometimes they're victims.

1:16.0

No matter what, the diagnosis is crime,

1:19.0

and the prescription and cure comes from the three heroes we'll hear today.

1:25.0

Up first is Broadway is My Beat in an episode from August 4, 1949,

1:31.0

a show known as the Dr. Robbie McClure Murder Case.

1:37.0

The titular doc dies in the office of Detective Danny Clover,

1:42.0

and the poetic policeman of the Great White Way gets to work on finding

1:46.2

the killer.

1:47.4

Larry Thor stars as Clover, along with Charles Calvert as Sergeant Tartaglia and Larry Dobkin as the late Dr McClure.

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