Episode 553 - Music and Mayhem (The Saint & Johnny Dollar)

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

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

It's a concert of crime in this week's episode, as two radio detectives tackle cases in the music world. First, Simon Templar investigates when a pianist is shot and killed at the keys. Vincent Price stars in "A Sonata for Slayers" from The Saint (originally aired on NBC on June 18, 1950). Then, Bob Bailey stars as Johnny Dollar in "The Ricardo Amerigo Matter," where "America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator" hunts for a missing violinist and his violin (originally aired on CBS between January 16 and January 20, 1956).

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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 And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets with more old-time radio crimes and
1:01.4	crime solvers.
1:03.6	This week, Murder and Mystery have a beat
1:06.3	you can dance to as a pair of radio detectives
1:09.9	take on cases set in the world of music.
1:14.2	First, Vincent Price stars as the saint in a sonata for Slayer's,
1:20.3	originally aired on NBC on June 18th, 1950.
1:24.0	Simon Templar is summoned to visit a famous concert pianist
1:29.0	and he arrives just in time to hear the man's murder at the keys.
1:35.0	A Beethoven manuscript may point to the murderer
1:39.0	and it may save another musician from a similar fate. The supporting cast in this one includes
1:46.2	Alice Frost, who we've heard on the podcast as half of the crime-solving duo,
1:52.0	Mr and Mrs North.
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