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🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Children (and mystery fans) of all ages - join us this week for a quartet of old time radio capers set at the circus. First, a lion tamer is caught in a lethal love triangle in "Serenade Macabre" from Crime Club (originally aired on Mutual on July 24, 1947). Next, Bob Bailey is hired to protect a trapeze artist who's receiving threats in "A Piece of Publicity" from Let George Do It (originally aired on Mutual on June 14, 1948). A trip to the circus leads Bulldog Drummond to "Death Under the Big Top" (originally aired on Mutual on July 7, 1948), and Orson Welles hunts a war criminal in "Harry Joins the Circus" from The Lives of Harry Lime.
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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 means streets with more old-time radio |
1:00.6 | detectives and crime fighters. This week we're off to the circus with |
1:06.5 | mysteries said in the world of acrobats, clowns, and wild animals. First up is Serenade Macabre, a tale from the collection of the |
1:16.7 | Crime Club, originally aired on Mutual on July 24th, 1947. |
1:23.2 | It's the story of a lethal love triangle at the circus, |
1:27.2 | where a woman and her lover plan a deadly accident |
1:30.9 | for her lion tametamer husband. |
1:33.0 | Then Bob Bailey stars as George Valentine in a piece of publicity from Let George do it, |
1:41.0 | originally aired on Mutual on June 14, 1948. |
1:46.4 | George's new client is a famous trapeze artist |
1:49.8 | and she's received several threatening letters. |
1:53.6 | Now George and Girl Friday, Brooksy, quickly determined that the woman herself is behind |
1:58.8 | the letters as part of a strange publicity stunt. But someone takes the stunt too far and their clients soon winds up dead. |
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