Episode 607 - Buck Private Eyes (Michael Shayne, Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, & Richard Diamond)

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 December 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

We're rubbing elbows with four members of the fraternity of radio private detectives as they risk life and limb for their fee (plus expenses). Jeff Chandler stars as Michael Shayne in the syndicated mystery "The Pursuit of Death;" as Sam Spade, Howard Duff finds himself saddled with a partner and a bunny costume in "The Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail Caper" (originally aired on CBS on December 4, 1949); Gerald Mohr stars as Philip Marlowe in "The Face to Forget" (originally aired on CBS on June 14, 1950); and Dick Powell sings and solves his way through "The Dixon Case" in Richard Diamond, Private Detective (originally aired on ABC on March 14, 1952).

Transcript

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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.
0:59.3	... Yours truly, Johnny Duller. Let's turn back the clock about 24 hours and drop in on Mr. and Mrs. Johnson.
1:01.4	They're just returning from a football game.
1:06.9	Well, here we are, home at last, and boy, am I hungry. Oh, so am I. Let's start thinking about some food. Big juicy hamburgers, maybe.
1:11.5	Say, that's for me, with plenty of cats.
1:13.6	Uh-huh.
1:14.4	Del Monte Catsup.
1:15.5	It has such marvelous flavor.
1:17.3	And Mrs. Johnson really knows her cats.
1:19.9	Del Monte Catsup.
	...

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