Episode 546 - In this Corner (Crime Club, Frank Race, The Falcon, & Broadway is My Beat)

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 August 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

That's the bell, and we're underway with four old time radio mysteries set in and around the world of boxing. First, a fight fixer winds up dead in "Death is a Knock-out" from Crime Club (originally aired on Mutual on June 12, 1947). Frank Race investigates when a boxer dies in the ring in the syndicated mystery "The Adventure of the Fourth Round Knock-Out," and The Falcon solves "The Case of the Bellicose Boxer" (originally aired on NBC on January 28, 1951). Finally, Detective Danny Clover tries to find out who left a boxer for dead in the river in "The Harry Brian Case" from Broadway is My Beat (originally aired on CBS on July 11, 1953).

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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 crime fighters from the
1:00.5	golden age of radio. Today we're climbing back into the ring to go 12
1:06.1	rounds with radio detectives in boxing mysteries. The world of prize fighting inspired several great crime and noir pictures
1:16.7	and it provided no shortage of stories for old-time radio gumshoes.
1:21.8	We'll hear four mysteries, said in and around the ring today.
1:28.0	Up first is death is a knockout, a story from the Collection of the Crime Club.
1:37.0	This anthology series dramatized stories from the book series published by Double Day.
1:43.7	Introduced by the Club's Librarian,
1:46.5	a character played by Raymond Edward Johnson.
1:49.7	Death is a knockout is the story of a plan
1:52.2	to fix a prize fight, but the fixer is the
1:55.0	story of a plan to fix a prize fight, but the fixer winds up dead.
1:57.0	The cast includes Ted D'Corsia,
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