Episode 558 - Seeing Double (Mollé Mystery Theatre, The Whistler, Let George Do It, & 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

🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Danger comes in pairs in this week's quartet old time radio mysteries involving identical twins and dopplegangers. First, a gangster uses a lookalike drifter to create an "Alibi for Murder" on The Mollé Mystery Theatre (originally aired on NBC on March 22, 1946). Next, a pair of twin foals leads to a plot to fix races in "The Big Gamble" from The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on October 3, 1948). Finally, we'll hear Bob Bailey in two shows. First, he's George Valentine in Hawaii investigating a case of twin sister trouble in "Journey Into Hate" from Let George Do It (originally aired on Mutual on February 21, 1949), and then he's Johnny Dollar looking for a missing heir in "The Twisted Twin Matter" (originally aired on CBS on August 21, 1960).

Transcript

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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.
1:03.4	This week all of our mysteries have one thing in common.
1:07.6	Well, they have two things in common.
1:10.2	Each caper that we'll hear today concerns a pair of look-alikes, twins, and doppel gangers.
1:17.0	First up is Alibi for Murder from the Molay Mystery Theater.
1:23.0	Originally aired on NBC on March 22nd, 1946,
1:27.8	it's the story of a drifter who happens to be a dead ringer for a gangster.
1:34.0	When the gangster discovers this look-alike,
1:36.9	he decides to use his double as a way
1:39.6	to be in two places at the same time and create that titular alibi for murder.
1:46.0	We'll hear Mandel Kramer, the last actor to play Johnny Dollar on radio as the gangster, and Ed Begley, who we know as Lieutenant
1:56.3	Walt Levinson on Richard Diamond, plays the crooks confidant.
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