Episode 603 - Green (Hornet) Party (Green Hornet & The Whistler)

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

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

As Americans head to the polls to pick a president, we'll hear some old time radio mysteries centering on the seedier side of the political process. Fortunately, The Green Hornet is on hand to keep things safe for democracy and to deliver a decisive blow against the crooked machines who try to get corrupt politicians elected. We'll hear the Hornet and his loyal sidekick Kato in "Votes for Sale" (originally aired on Mutual on October 9, 1940), "Ballots and Bluff" (originally aired on Mutual on November 1, 1945), and "Election Boomerang" (originally aired on Mutual October 15, 1952). Plus, we'll hear "Final Returns," a story from The Whistler about a politician who decides to vote his domineering wife out of his life permanently (originally aired on CBS on October 29, 1945).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.1	Crime is a sucker's road.
0:03.9	And those who travel
0:04.6	it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:12.3	The story you were about to hear is true.
0:15.2	Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.6	The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
0:21.7	The Adventures of the Saints,
0:23.5	starring Vincent Price.
0:25.5	Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures
0:27.7	of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.6	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...
0:33.4	Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
1:04.4	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime fighters.
1:17.5	Well, after what has been a very long and trying campaign, we head to the polls in the United States on Tuesday to pick our next president.
1:26.8	So to mark the occasion, I've selected some radio mysteries centering on the shadier side of elections and politicians, beginning with three adventures of the Green Hornet.
1:31.9	In these three stories, The Hornet and his alter ego newspaper publisher Britt Reid battle crooked
1:38.6	politicians and the rackets who try to get them elected.
1:43.5	We'll hear the Green Hornet and his loyal sidekick
1:46.1	Cato in Votes for Sale from October 9th, 1940, ballots and bluff from November 1st, 1945,
1:55.3	and election boomerang from October 15th, 1952. Then we'll hear an episode of The Whistler, a story of a blue-collar
2:05.7	politician who grows weary of his domineering wife, even though she's the brains and the
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