Episode 596 - Feeling Punchy (Crime Club, Suspense, Night Beat, & Tales of the Texas Rangers)

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

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Tap gloves and tune in for a quartet of radio mysteries set in and around the boxing ring. First, a crooked gambler is killed when he tries to a fix a fight in "Death is a Knockout" from Crime Club (originally aired on Mutual on June 12, 1947). Next, Dick Powell gives a heel turn as a boxer out to ruin a rival in "Slow Burn" from Suspense (originally aired on CBS on February 23, 1950). Reporter Randy Stone tries to help a fighter under pressure to throw his next bout in Night Beat (an episode known as "Gunner's Last Fight," originally aired on NBC on August 14, 1950). And Jayce Pearson investigates when poison puts a fighter down for the county in "The Rub-Out" from Tales of the Texas Rangers (originally aired on NBC on February 3, 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. And the Hello and welcome to down these means streets and more old time
1:00.1	radio detectives and crime solvers. This week we're stepping into the
1:05.4	ring with four old time radio mysteries set in the world of boxing. With all of
1:12.1	its ingredients, the violence, the money, of boxing was a subject that frequently
1:14.4	the violence the money the glorious victories and the demoralizing
1:18.1	defeats boxing was a subject that frequently popped up in the world of film noir in movies like the setup, body and
1:26.1	soul, and the harder they fall.
1:29.1	So it's no surprise that the fight game also inspired a ton of radio mysteries where detectives
1:35.6	encountered fixed fights struggling boxers, unscrupulous managers, and
1:41.1	dead bodies in and out of the ring.
1:44.7	We featured some of these Fight Knights on the podcast in the past, collections of boxing-themed
1:50.4	mysteries, and today we've got a lineup of four more shows. First up is
1:56.6	death is a knockout a tale that comes to us courtesy of the Crime Club. I've been featuring this show more and more on the
2:05.6	podcast this year and it's becoming one of my favorite radio anthologies, a genre
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