Episode 599 - Art is Long and Crime is Fleeting (Boston Blackie, Jeff Regan, The Saint, & Johnny Dollar)

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

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

I may not know art, but I know what I like - and I like these four radio mysteries involving masterpieces, the artists who make them, and the crooks who try to steal them. First, Boston Blackie is forced to participate in an art heist to save his friend (syndicated episode known as "The Abbott Painting"), and a beautiful woman wants a missing artist found in "The Barefoot Boy with Shoes Gone" from Jeff Regan, Investigator (AFRS rebroadcast of a show from January 25, 1950). The Saint steps into the world of international art smuggling in "Button, Button" (originally aired on NBC on March 11, 1951), and a $200,000 painting could be a priceless work of art or a clever forgery in "The Allen Saxton Matter" from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (originally aired on CBS on October 20, 1953).

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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 Means streets and more old-time radio
1:00.6	detectives and crime fighters. This week we're taking a trip into the art
1:06.8	world with a quartet of radio mysteries involving masterpieces, the
1:12.1	artists who create them, and the crooks who try to steal or forge
1:16.9	them. First up is Richard Kalmer as Boston Blackie, enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend.
1:28.0	It's still one of my favorite introductions to any radio detective show. In this syndicated mystery, Blackie comes up against an unscrupulous
1:37.6	character who threatens to frame his pal Shorty for murder with fabricated evidence.
1:44.1	That is unless Blackie steals a painting for him.
1:48.4	Then we'll hear Frank Graham as Jeff Regan investigator in The Barefoot Boy with Shoes Gone.
1:57.0	That's a great title.
1:58.0	It's an Armed Forces radio service rebroadcast of a show from January 25th, 1950.
2:05.1	Regan worked for the penny pinching Anthony J. Lyon,
2:09.2	president of the International Detective Bureau,
2:12.4	and he earned himself the nickname
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