Episode 590 - Snakes…Why’d It Have to Be Snakes? (Casey, Crime Photographer, Sherlock Holmes, Richard Diamond, & Philip Marlowe)

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

🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Don't hiss - even if you don't like snakes, I think you'll enjoy these four serpent-centric radio mysteries. First, Casey, Crime Photographer investigates a curse that may have followed two explorers home in "The Serpent Goddess" (originally aired on CBS on December 4, 1947). Next, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson tangle with Professor Moriarty and a secret cult in "The Adventure of the Serpent God" (originally aired on Mutual on March 14, 1948). Dick Powell tries to protect his client from someone who's sending snakes in the mail in Richard Diamond, Private Detective in an episode known as "The Joyce Wallace Case" (originally aired on NBC on March 12, 1950). And Gerald Mohr stars as Philip Marlowe in a case involving snakes both real and decorative - "The Gold Cobra" (originally aired on CBS on June 21, 1950).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.0	Crime is a suckers road,
0:04.0	and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:07.0	The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.0	The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
0:22.0	The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Price.
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.
0:33.0	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. I'll just go ahead and say it. I am not a fan of snakes.
1:08.0	Doesn't matter if they're not venomous, if they're the helpful kind of snakes that get rid of other vermin, snakes are not for me.
1:17.0	It's something I learned at a young age when my brother had several snakes as pets when we were growing up. For me it wasn't just
1:25.3	having the snakes in the house it was also the act of feeding them. That's when I
1:30.6	learned that you could get feeder mice at the pet store, and as the snakes got bigger, we had to graduate from frozen mice to live mice.
1:41.0	Long story short, I do not miss those days, but it got me thinking about the theme for this
1:47.4	week's show, and I've picked out four old-time radio mysteries involving snakes. Some real, some not real, but all of
1:57.1	them play a major role in each of the stories we're going to hear today. So even
2:02.4	if you're like me and you'd be happy if snakes
2:05.5	just slithers away on their own and stayed out of your path, I think you'll
2:09.7	enjoy these stories. First up is the Serpent Goddess, an episode of Casey Crime
2:16.4	Photographer that originally aired on CBS on December 4th, 1947. A pair of explorers are back in the States after an expedition to South America.
2:27.0	They've returned with a truckload of emeralds and stories of a they hauled home with them are subject to a curse.
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