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🗓️ 7 January 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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To kick off 2024, we're hitting the road with three old time radio mysteries centered on cars. First, Boston Blackie investigates a ring of car thieves after his girlfriend's wheels are swiped in a syndicated mystery starring Richard Kollmar. Next, the cops hunt a hit-and-run killer in The Line-Up (originally aired on CBS on August 3, 1950). Finally, Jack Webb is on the trail of a gang that strips cars for their parts in "The Big Paint" from Dragnet (originally aired on NBC on October 20, 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, where today we kick off a new year of old time radio detectives and crime fighters. |
1:05.9 | For our inaugural episode of 2024, we're hitting the road with three radio mysteries involving cars. |
1:15.0 | Whether they're stolen or the means for committing a murder, |
1:19.0 | speeding down the road or idling on the corner, |
1:22.0 | these cars are at the center of each of these cases. |
1:26.0 | Up first is a syndicated adventure of Boston Blackie, starring Richard Kalmer as the thief turned sloothe, the enemy to those who make him an enemy, |
1:36.9 | the friend to those who have no friend. |
1:40.7 | Blackie discovers a gang of car thieves after his girlfriend's car is swiped from right in front of his building. |
1:47.0 | Leslie Woods co-stars as Blackie's Girl Friday, Mary Wesley, and Maurice Tarplin is Inspector Faraday of the police. |
1:55.3 | Then the cops are on the trail of a hit and run driver in the lineup. |
2:00.6 | But this was no accident. The evidence shows that the driver deliberately killed two young women with his car. |
2:09.0 | Bill John Stone stars as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Wally Mayer as Sergeant Matt Greb in this episode |
2:16.1 | that originally aired on CBS on August 3rd 1950. We haven't heard the lineup on the podcast in a while, but it's one of the great old-time |
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