Episode 552 - Belgian, No Waffling (Hercule Poirot)

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

🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Hercule Poirot - Agatha Christie's brilliant Belgian sleuth - is back on the big screen in A Haunting in Venice. To celebrate his return, we'll hear three old time radio adventures of Poirot starring Harold Huber as the detective. We'll hear "Death in the Golden Gate" (originally aired on Mutual on May 17, 1945), "The Adventure of the Money Mad Ghoul" (originally aired on Mutual on September 13, 1945) and the series' audition episode "The Case of the Roving Corpse."

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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 super-slooths. This week one of Fiction's greatest detectives returns to the big screen
1:08.3	as a haunting in Venice hits theaters. Kenneth Branagh makes his third appearance as Agatha Christie's brilliant Belgian crime solver
1:18.0	Ecuopuaro, following his adaptations of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile.
1:26.0	Now as a fan of both the character of Poirot and the actor-director Brana, I've been looking forward to this one and can't wait to catch it at the
1:35.1	theater.
1:36.2	And to celebrate the latest Poirot movie, I've lined up three old-time radio adventures of the
1:42.4	detective starring Harold Huber.
1:45.3	Huber, the great character actor of the Thin Man and the Charlie Chan film series,
1:51.2	was a fan of Poirot first and foremost.
1:55.0	He acquired the rights to the character and brought him to radio for this mid-40 series,
2:01.1	a show that featured an on-air introduction from Poirot's creator, Agatha Christie.
2:07.0	Now, if you're a Poirot purist, you may not be crazy about the Huber radio series.
2:13.6	None of the stories that the show presented
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