Episode 591 - Partners in Crime Fighting (Mr. Keen, Nero Wolfe, Dragnet, & The Abbotts)

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

🗓️ 11 August 2024

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes it takes two detectives to crack the case. Fortunately, each of these radio mysteries has a dynamic duo on the scene. First, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons and his partner Mike Kelly solve "The Case of the Ruthless Murderers" (originally aired on CBS on October 27, 1949). Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin take their final bow on the air in "The Case of Room 304" (originally aired on NBC on April 27, 1951). Sgt. Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are on the trail of counterfeiters in "The Big Listen" from Dragnet (originally aired on NBC on January 5, 1954). Finally, married sleuths Pat and Jean Abbott investigate "The Green-Eyed Divorcee" (AFRS rebroadcast from NBC on May 8, 1955).

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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. But's the golden age of radio were too big for one detective to solve.
1:09.0	Sometimes it took two and that's the case with each of the four cases
1:14.9	we'll hear today.
1:16.5	All of the mysteries in this week's show
1:18.6	featured detective duos working in tandem to catch the bad guys.
1:24.6	Our first dynamic duo today is made up of Mr. Keen,
1:29.3	Tracer of Lost Persons, and his partner Mike Kelly. They were the stars of one of
1:35.0	radio's longest-running detective shows. The exploits of the Kindly Old
1:40.0	investigator aired from 1937 all the way up until 1955.
1:47.0	Despite that impressive run, however, less than 100 episodes of Mr. Ke Keen are known to survive today.
1:54.5	For the first 13 years of the program, Mr. Keen was played by actor Bennett Kilpack, who
1:59.4	will hear today, with actor Jim Kelly as Mike Clancy, who was on hand to provide the muscle in support
2:07.0	of Mr. Keen's powers of deduction.
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