Episode 542 - Urban Cowboys (Gang Busters, Sam Spade, Let George Do It, & Tales of the Texas Rangers)

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

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Our heroes this week encounter elements of the old west in the strangest places. First up is "The Case of the Cowboy Killers" - a true crime tale from Gang Busters that pits police against a gang of robbers who are quick on the draw (originally aired on ABC on August 28, 1948). Next, real-life gunplay keeps Sam Spade from enjoying a western dime novel in "The Betrayal in Bumpass Hell," (AFRS rebroadcast from January 16, 1949). Then George Valentine is hired by a big screen cowboy star and winds up in a murder case in "Every Shot Counts" from Let George Do It (originally aired on Mutual on October 31, 1949). And finally, Joel McCrea uses old fashioned methods and modern policework in Tales of the Texas Rangers. We'll hear him as Ranger Jayce Pearson in "The Hatchet" (originally aired on NBC on February 11, 1951).

Transcript

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0:00.0	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 And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets and more old-time radio crimes and
1:00.9	crime fighters. This week our heroes are headed out west,
1:06.0	sometimes literally, and sometimes just because of the unusual cowboy
1:11.2	characters they encounter in their cases.
1:14.4	We'll hear four old time radio mysteries today involving trigger happy bank robbers,
1:20.2	big screen Western heroes, and modern Day Crime Solving Cowboys.
1:26.5	Up first is a true crime tale from Gangbusters.
1:30.9	Originally aired on ABC on August 28th, 1948, the case of the cowboy killers
1:38.1	tells the story of a gang of hold-up men who took pages from the playbooks of Old West Bandits.
1:45.0	The brazen criminals are prone to shooting down anyone who stands in their way,
1:50.0	and it's up to the New York police to stop their deadly crime wave.
1:55.0	Mandel Kramer, who years later would be the final actor to play Johnny Dollar on radio,
2:01.0	stars in this episode.
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