Episode 605 - Kid Stuff (Box 13, Philip Marlowe, & 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

🗓️ 17 November 2024

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

It's not just adults who need a good detective. Our heroes this week come to the aid of kids in trouble. First, Dan Holiday helps a boy find a lost astronomer in "Archimedes and the Roman" from Box 13. Next, Philip Marlowe is hired to find the missing uncle of a newsboy in "The Kid on the Corner" (originally aired on CBS on December 3, 1949). Finally, Johnny Dollar believes the life of a teenage girl is in danger when she stands to inherit a fortune in the five-part mystery "The Matter of Reasonable Doubt" (originally aired on CBS between May 28 and June 1, 1956).

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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.
1:02.2	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.
1:10.5	This week our radio gumshoes come to the aid of children in trouble, pint-sized clients who seek out the services of these detectives.
1:14.3	This is a staple of almost every classic detective TV show.
1:19.5	There's some episode where a kid client approaches the detective
1:22.9	with a generous offer to pay them in their allowance
1:25.9	or with the contents of their piggy bank.
1:28.3	Then the detective has a knowing smile and offers to waive their usual fee.
1:34.3	Personally, if I was a private eye and a kid asked me to take on a dangerous job for nothing but spare change,
1:41.3	I'd tell him to get lost.
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