Episode 595 - Spy Games (Dangerous Assignment, Man Called X, Silent Men, & The Falcon)

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

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Catch a plane and begin a daring mission with these four radio super spies and sleuths. As Steve Mitchell, Brian Donlevy heads to London to keep enemy agents guessing in Dangerous Assignment (originally aired on NBC on March 3, 1951) and The Man Called X is off to Monte Carlo to find out why a fellow agent was killed (originally aired on NBC on May 4, 1951). Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. hunts for missing scientists and plans for the weapon they built in "The Gigantic Hoax" from The Silent Men (originally aired on NBC on January 20, 1952). And Mike Waring - aka The Falcon - is in Berlin on a job for Army intelligence in "The Case of the King of Clubs" (originally aired on NBC on July 20, 1952).

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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 were old-time radio detectives and crime fighters.
1:06.4	The golden age of radio coincided with the advent of the Cold War.
1:12.1	The post-World War II ratcheting up of tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. drama inspired writers.
1:23.0	So along with the cops and private eyes walking radio beats,
1:27.0	we saw a number of radio spies keeping the airwaves safe for the forces of God.
1:34.0	And today we'll travel around the world
1:36.0	with four of those radio secret agents.
1:40.0	First up is Brian Don Levy as two-fisted government operative Steve Mitchell in
1:47.0	dangerous assignment. In this episode from March 3rd 1951, Mitchell is dispatched to London and then to Athens.
1:57.0	It's all a part of a plan to keep a pipeline of false information flowing to keep enemy agents guessing.
2:05.0	On dangerous assignment, Steve Mitchell reported to the chief, played by her Butterfield.
2:11.8	He was a kind of go-to boss on the air. He also played Anthony J. Lyon
2:17.3	opposite Jack Webb and Jeff Regal investigator, though the chief was far more scrupulous than Mr. Lyon.
2:26.8	Next we'll hear Herbert Marshall is my favorite great time radio spy, Ken Thurston, alias the man called X.
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