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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 560 - Monkey Business (Philip Marlowe, The Saint, & Rocky Fortune)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6982 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

We're going bananas this week with three old time radio mysteries featuring chimps along with clues and crimes. First, Philip Marlowe looks for an English butler who walks on his knuckles in "The Monkey's Uncle" (originally aired on CBS on March 7, 1950). Then, Simon Templar is saddled with a simian sidekick in "The Chiseling Chimpanzee" from The Saint (originally aired on NBC on December 10, 1950). Finally, Frank Sinatra is asked to serve as bodyguard for a chimp TV star - and later has to find the little guy when he's kidnapped in "Companion to a Chimp" from Rocky Fortune (originally aired on December 15, 1953).

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 and more old-time radio detectives and crime fighters.

1:05.0

We're monkeying around on this week's show,

1:08.0

as our heroes face a trio of mysteries,

1:11.0

each one involving a chimpanzee.

1:15.0

First up in our trilogy of animal antics is the monkey's uncle

1:21.0

from the Adventures of Philip Marlow.

1:24.0

Gerald Moore stars as Raymond Chandler's private eye in this episode that originally aired on

1:30.0

CBS on March 7th, 1950.

1:35.4

Marlow gets a late night phone call warning of murder,

1:39.5

and soon he's on the trail of some very eccentric characters, including a chimpanzee who works as an English

1:46.8

butler under the name of Cornelius.

1:50.8

No relation, I'm guessing, to Roddy McDowell in Planet of the Apes.

1:55.8

The cast includes John Dana, Mary Lansing, Tudor Owen, and Junius Matthews.

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