Episode 544 - Worth a Thousand Words (Casey, Crime Photographer, Richard Diamond, & Let George Do It)

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

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Say cheese! Our heroes in this week's episode are solving mysteries involving photographers and the photos they've taken. First, Casey, Crime Photographer hunts for picture-perfect proof of a killer's identity in "Murder in Black and White" (originally aired on CBS on March 18, 1948). Then, a nightclub photographer is marked for death in Richard Diamond, Private Detective (originally aired on NBC on August 9, 1949). And finally, George Valentine is tricked into a blackmail scheme where the blackmailer ends up dead in "Picture with a Black Frame" from Let George Do It (originally aired on Mutual on May 8, 1950).

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 The Hello and welcome to down these mean streets with more old-time radio crime solvers. This week it's time to say cheese as our three
1:06.4	detectives tackle cases involving photographers and the pictures they take.
1:12.4	Leading off, appropriately, is a radio gumshoe who made his living taking pictures.
1:18.0	It's Casey Crime Photographer in Murder in black and white.
1:25.0	Originally aired on CBS on March 18, 1948,
1:29.4	this one finds Casey and reporter Anne Williams
1:32.4	investigating the murder of a one-time heavyweight boxer
1:36.0	with a long list of enemies. A tip leads to a lead on photographic evidence of the
1:42.0	murder, but Casey and Anne find their potential witness murdered himself.
1:48.0	Stats Kotsworth stars as Casey and Jan Minor is Anne. You'll also hear John Gibson as bartender Ethelbert and Bernard
1:56.9	Lenro as Captain Logan of the homicide squad. Then Richard Diamond is hired to keep a nightclub photographer from being murdered.
2:07.0	Dick Powell stars as radio's singing sleuth in this episode that aired on NBC on August 9th 1949.
2:15.9	Diamond suspects his new client may have taken a picture of the wrong subjects
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