Episode 576 - A Day at the Races (Boston Blackie, Frank Race, Peter Chambers, & Sherlock Holmes)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2024
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Place your bets and ride along with four old time radio mysteries set in the stables and around the racetrack. Boston Blackie doubts a horse is guilty of murder in a syndicated mystery, and international investigator Frank Race tries to find out who's out to make sure a prize racehorse doesn't make it to the winner's circle in "The Adventure of the Vanishing Favorite." A jockey loses a race and his life in Crime and Peter Chambers (originally aired on NBC on August 3, 1954). And John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson are Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in an adaptation of "Silver Blaze."
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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 |
| 1:01.4 | detectives and crime fighters. |
| 1:04.2 | This week we're off to the races with a quartet of radio mysteries all involving horses |
| 1:12.0 | and we're kicking things off today with Richard |
| 1:14.5 | calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to |
| 1:20.9 | those who have no friend. |
| 1:22.8 | One of these days I really have to get that printed on a business card. |
| 1:26.5 | In this syndicated mystery Blackie discovers a dead body outside of the stables |
| 1:32.0 | where he and girlfriend Mary Wesley have gone to ride. |
| 1:36.1 | Inspector Faraday suspects that the man was killed by a horse and he's ready to close |
| 1:41.3 | the case, but Blackie suspects a killer on two legs is |
| 1:46.2 | responsible for the crime. Then Tom Collins stars as Frank Race, |
| 1:52.1 | OSS Agent turned International Insurance Investigator in the syndicated episode, The Adventure of the Vanishing Favorite. |
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