Episode 548 - Up in the Air (Frank Race, Philip Marlowe, & Silent Men)

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 August 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Danger flies high today with three old time radio mysteres involving airplanes. First, Frank Race is hired to deliver the plans for a million-dollar aircraft in the syndicated story "The Airborne Adventure." Next, Philip Marlowe's latest case leads to a team of daredevil skydivers and a deadly accident in "The Birds on the Wing" (originally aired on CBS on November 26, 1949). And finally, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. stars as a government agent hunting for the person who stowed a time bomb aboard a plane in "The Big Kill" from The Silent Men (originally aired on NBC on February 3, 1952).

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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 and more old-time radio crime solvers. This week we're catching a flight old time their pilots and their passengers.
1:13.0	First up is Tom Collins as ex-spy turned globe trotting investigator Frank Grace in the syndicated mystery The Airborn Adventure.
1:25.0	Race has been hired to deliver a set of blueprints for a brand new airplane,
1:30.0	a set of plans worth a million dollars and that kind of money attracts all sorts of unsavory characters.
1:38.0	Along with Collins there's a great cast in this episode including Frank Lovejoy, Parley Bear, Jean Bates, and
1:47.2	Tony Barrett as races sidekick and chauffeur Mark Donovan. Then Gerald Moore stars as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow in
1:57.6	The Birds on the Wing, originally aired on CBS on November 26th, 1949.
2:06.2	The titular birds are a group of skydivers with a popular parachute act called The Plunging
2:12.4	Comets.
2:14.4	Marlow is hired by a wealthy woman whose ne'er-do-well nephew has fallen in with the Comets.
2:21.1	She wants Marlow to track him down and bring him home.
2:25.0	Marlow arrives at the fairgrounds where the Comets are performing just in time to see a shoot
2:30.1	fail to open, and a comet take a fatal fall to the ground. This episode
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