Episode 584 - Fish Stories (Casey, Crime Photographer, Pat Novak, Johnny Dollar, & Suspense)

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

🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Cast your line for mystery with these old time radio shows involving fishing. Casey, Crime Photographer finds murder on a fishing trip in "Treasure Cave" (originally aired on CBS on September 25, 1947), and a stolen fishing boat leads to a pair of corpses in "Rita Malloy" from Pat Novak For Hire (AFRS rebroadcast from April 23, 1949). Charles Russell stars as Johnny Dollar in "I Caught a Fishing Boat, But You Should Have Seen the One That Got Away" (originally aired on CBS on October 1, 1949), and Dan Dailey tries to survive a fishing trip from hell in "Over the Bounding Main" (originally aired on CBS on September 14, 1950).

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 back after an unexpected hiatus for more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.
1:06.7	I'm happy to be back with you and happy to return with four old-time radio mysteries with our theme this week of fishing.
1:15.0	First up is a show we haven't heard in a while.
1:19.0	It's Casey Crime Photographer
1:22.0	starring Stots Kotsworth as the Shutterbug Sleuth.
1:26.0	We'll hear Treasure Cave, originally aired on CBS on September 25th, 1947.
1:33.2	In this one, Casey and his police officer buddy
1:36.1	Captain Logan are off on a fishing trip.
1:39.2	It's a chance for Casey to prove he's really the fisherman
1:42.2	he claims to be. Of course this is a
1:45.0	radio mystery show so it can't just be a relaxing getaway. The pair
1:50.3	discover the mysterious titular cave as well as a series of strange murders
1:56.6	and the treasure that may lie deep inside.
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