Episode 550 - First Day of School (The Whistler, Philip Marlowe, I Was a Communist for the FBI, & Dragnet)

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

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

It's time to sharpen those pencils and hit the books with four radio mysteries set in and around the classroom. First, a chemistry professor tries a blackmail experiment in "Hasty Conclusion" from The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on May 19, 1947) and Philip Marlowe's latest client is a Nebraska schoolteacher caught up in mystery and murder in "The Rustin Hickory" (originally aired on CBS on September 10, 1949). Then, Dana Andrews tries to thwart a Commie plot to infiltrate a college campus in "Little Red Schoolhouse" from I Was a Communist for the FBI and Joe Friday goes back to school to find an assailant targeting students in "The Big Knife" from Dragnet (originally aired on NBC on May 11, 1950).

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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 solvers from the golden age of radio.
1:04.3	Well, it's back to school time again,
1:07.0	which can be good or bad news,
1:09.6	depending on whether you're a parent or a student. Whether you're dreading the return to the classroom or looking forward to it.
1:17.5	I'm marking the occasion with four old-time radio mysteries set in and around school.
1:25.0	First up is Hastie Conclusion, another story by the Whistler.
1:31.0	Originally aired on CBS on May 19th, 1947, this strange tale by the sinister
1:37.7	storyteller centers on a chemistry professor who discovers the head of his
1:42.4	department has plagiarized the work of a
1:45.2	dead student for a new article. Armed with this knowledge the professor decides
1:50.4	to try an experiment in blackmail.
1:54.0	Then we'll hear Gerald Moore as Philip Marlow in the Rustin
1:58.0	Hickory, originally aired on CBS on September 10th, 1949.
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