4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 129 minutes
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It's Christmas with The Whistler as Down These Mean Streets signs off for 2023! Radio's celebrated sinister storyteller - played by Bill Forman - narrates a quartet of mysteries set against a holiday backdrop. We'll hear "Christmas Bonus" (originally aired on CBS on December 25, 1944), "Letter from Cynthia" (originally aired on CBS on December 25, 1949), "Three Wise Guys" (originally aired on CBS on December 24, 1950), and "Christmas Gift" (originally aired on CBS on December 23, 1951).
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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 Happy Holidays and Welcome to Down These Mean Streets. Hard to believe, but it's our final show of the year. |
1:04.3 | And before I sign off, I've lined up our annual showcase of Christmas mysteries |
1:10.4 | from the Golden Age of Radio and this year all of our stories come from the |
1:16.9 | Whistler the long-running anthology series known for its twist endings and its sinister storyteller who |
1:26.3 | introduced each of his tales by whistling an eerie melody. The Whistler was |
1:31.2 | played by several actors over the course of the series, including |
1:35.8 | Gail Gordon, Joseph Kearns, and former Shadow Star Bill Johnstone. |
1:41.4 | But for most of the run run and for all of the shows we'll hear today |
1:45.9 | he was played by Bill Foreman. We've heard Foreman's voice on the podcast before |
1:52.1 | not only as the Whistler, but as an announcer for Rexall |
1:56.3 | Drugs in commercials on Richard Diamond Private Detective and the Phil Harris Alice Faye show. |
2:03.0 | Christmas provided the backdrop for several stories told by the Whistler. |
2:08.0 | And today we'll hear four of them to wrap up the year and head into the holidays. Up first is Christmas |
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