Episode 559 - We Didn’t Start the Fire (Boston Blackie, Counterspy, & 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

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

The heat is on with three old time radio cases of arson. First, Boston Blackie investigates a convoluted case of a love triangle, a torched building, and murder. Then, it's "The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist," an adventure from Counterspy (originally aired on ABC on September 16, 1949) that finds government agent David Harding hunting an ex-Nazi working as a firebug in the US of A. Finally, John Lund stars as "the man with the action-packed expense account" in "The Lester Matson Matter" from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (AFRS rebroadcast; originally aired on September 8, 1953).

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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.
1:05.0	This week, as it's getting colder outside,
1:08.0	we're turning up the heat inside,
1:11.0	with some radio mysteries featuring fires and the fire bugs who set them.
1:17.0	Up first today is an adventure of Boston Blackie, starring Richard Kalmer as the gentleman thief turned Debeneer Detective.
1:26.8	In this one a factory owner declines to renew his pricey fire insurance policy. The same day the man's partner seeks a $25,000 loan
1:37.9	from Blackie. He can't get the money and soon the factory is up in flames and it isn't long before a
1:45.8	case of arson turns into a case of murder. Co-starring with calmer are Leslie
1:51.3	Woods says Mary Wesley Blackie's Girl Friday,
1:55.0	and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday of the police.
1:59.4	Speaking of policemen on radio,
2:02.1	we'll also hear Ed Begley in this episode.
2:05.9	Around here we know Begley best as Lieutenant Levinson on Richard Diamond.
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