Episode 565 - Mediums Rare (Jeff Regan, Richard Diamond, & Mr. Aladdin)

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

🗓️ 14 January 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

These spiritulaists can't really communicate with the world beyond our own, but they do manage to inspire a trio of old time radio mysteries where our detective heroes must contend with some mediums who aren't well done. First, Jeff Regan is hired to protect a psychic consultant in "The Man Who Lived by the Sea," (originally aired on CBS on December 18, 1948). Then, IRchard Diamond must expose a phony mentalist who's bilking a family out of their fortune (originally aired on NBC on September 10, 1949). And finally, Paul Frees - a man of a thousand voices - stars as Mr. Aladdin - "the man who can do anything" who is hired by a woman who suspects her late husband is back in canine form in "The Miracle of the Four-Legged Husband" (originally aired on CBS on September 9, 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 Hello and welcome to down these mean streets and more crime solvers from the
1:01.1	golden age of radio. This week I'm sensing something, a
1:06.8	message from the world beyond, something that tells me that all three of our shows today will involve
1:14.8	psychics and mediums. Now that's a pretty safe prediction. We'll see how the
1:21.5	characters in these episodes do, beginning with Jack Webb in one of his
1:26.5	pre-dragnet roles as Jeff Regan investigator.
1:30.9	We'll hear the $10 a day gumshoo in The Man Who Lived by the Sea, originally
1:37.4	aired on CBS on December 18, 1948.
1:42.3	You may recall Regan works for the International Detective Bureau, an outfit
1:47.8	run by the penny-pinching Anthony J. Lyon. It's a gig that earns Regan the nickname, The Lion's Eye.
1:56.0	In this episode, Regan is hired by the lovely assistant of the Jeff Regan. The show took a hiatus and returned in the fall of 1949 with Frank Graham in the title role.
2:19.0	Of course by that time Webb was starring on NBC a Sergeant Joe Friday.
2:25.6	The cast includes Herb Butterfield as The Lion, along with Peggy Weber, Barry Kroger,
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