Episode 580 - Memories Lost and Found (Jeff Regan, The Saint, Richard Diamond, & Night Beat)

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

🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Mysteries are hard enough to solve without throwing amnesia into the mix, but that's what our radio detectives have to handle this week. A woman doesn't know who she is, and then drops dead in Jack Webb's office in "The Lady with No Name" from Jeff Regan, Investigator (originally aired on CBS on September 25, 1948). The Saint comes to the aid of a woman without her memory in "The Case of the Blonde Who Lost Her Head" (originally aired on Mutual on November 13, 1949). Dick Powell sings and solves the case of a young man who may have committed a murder and forgotten about it in Richard Diamond, Private Detective (originally aired on NBC on November 26, 1949). And Chicago reporter Randy Stone tries to help a soldier find his memory and his missing wife in Night Beat (originally aired on NBC on July 6, 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 old-time radio
1:00.0	detectives and crime fighters. Hello and welcome to down these mean streets.
1:07.0	Wait, did I already say that?
1:09.0	I'm having a hard time remembering.
1:12.0	Maybe it's because I've been listening to four old time
1:15.1	radio shows wherey amnesia plays a big part in the story. Hopefully I'll get my memory back
1:22.0	before the show is over, but we'll start off with Jack
1:25.8	Webb as Jeff Regan Investigators.
1:29.7	Now this is a show that's really grown on me over the years. It aired in between Webb's runs as Pat Novak
1:37.1	for hire, as well as a few years before he started walking the beat on dragnet.
1:44.0	Now when it comes to Jack Webb on radio, I would still go for Pat Novak or dragnet
1:50.0	before Jeff Regan, but it's a solid show with a strong Jack Webb lead performance.
1:57.0	Regan is the put-upon operative of the Lion Detective Agency, where he reports to the Penny Pinching Anthony J. Lyon, played here by Herb
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