Episode 577 - Islands of Adventure (Suspense, The Whistler, Bold Venture, & Johnny Dollar)

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

🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

We're off to the Caribbean with four old time radio mysteries full of island intrigue. An American professor finds murder on sabbatical in "A Passage to Benares" from Suspense (originally aired on CBS on September 23, 1942). Joan Banks pulls Frank Lovejoy into a dangerous salvage operation in "Chain Reaction" from The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on May 12, 1948). Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall bring their combined star power to tropical thrills in Bold Venture (a syndicated episode known as "Murder in the Yucatán Peninsula"). And finally, Johnny Dollar boards a yacht to act as a bodyguard in "The Time and Tide Matter" (AFRS rebroadcast from February 16, 1958).

Transcript

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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
1:00.1	detectives and crime fighters.
1:03.0	Pack your bags because this week we're heading to the Caribbean
1:06.7	with a quartet of radio mysteries set in the islands.
1:11.8	First up is an episode of suspense, one of the earliest from the 20-year run of Radio's Outstanding
1:19.3	Theater of Thrills.
1:22.0	From September 23rd, 1942, it's A Passage to Benaris, adapted from the story
1:29.3	by Tia Stripling. A Passage to Benaris is one of several stories Stribling wrote
1:35.0	featuring the character of Dr. Henry Poggioli, a psychology professor from
1:40.8	Ohio State who's on sabbatical in the Caribbean. During his
1:45.0	island travels he gets drawn into bizarre mysteries as he does in this story
1:50.6	where Paul Stewart plays Pajioli. His visit to Trinidad
1:55.6	coincides with the brutal murder of a young woman hours after her wedding. Her new
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