Episode 549 - Under the Sea (The Whistler, Man Called X, & This is Your FBI)

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

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Crime takes a dive in this week's episode of old time radio mysteries involving submarines, salvage divers, and the mysterious ocean floor. First, a love triangle leads to death at sea in "Dark Voyage" from The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on April 9, 1950). Then, Herbert Marshall hunts for a submarine targeting ships off India as The Man Called X (originally aired on NBC on February 3, 1951). And finally, G-men are on the job when a Nazi submarine drops off enemy agents in "The Saboteurs" (originally aired on ABC on March 30, 1951).

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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
1:00.3	detectives and crime solvers.
1:03.6	This week we're going under the sea
1:06.4	with some mysteries that involve submarines and deep sea divers.
1:12.2	Usually our detectives walk a bead in the big city, but this week our heroes are going to have to go on and in some cases under the water to close these cases. First we'll hear Dark Voyage, another strange
1:28.2	story by the Whistler. Originally aired on CBS on April 9th, 1950, it stars the Great William Conrad as a salvage
1:38.2	diver who thinks he's located a famous ship and the treasure it carried. It's a big job to bring it all to the surface
1:46.1	so he enlist the aid of a fellow diver. But Conrad inadvertently creates a love triangle when his girlfriend falls for the man.
1:56.1	As they prepare to set sail, Conrad plans some sabotage at sea to eliminate his rival at the bottom of the ocean.
2:05.0	Bill Foreman is the sinister storyteller.
2:09.0	The cast also includes Doris Singleton and George Meix.
2:14.2	Next Herbert Marshall is Secret Agent Ken Thurston,
2:17.8	the man called X, on a mission to stop a submarine
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