Episode 611 - All Saint’s Day (The Saint)

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

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

The radio adventures of The Saint premiered in January 1945, and we're celebrating the anniversary of his radio debut with four tales of Simon Templar. Several actors played the Saint over the years, but the voice that's synonymous with the character belongs to Vincent Price, and he plays "the Robin Hood of modern crime" in our quartet of crimes: "The Saint Goes Underground" (originally aired on Mutual on July 31, 1949); "The Problem of the Peculiar Payoff" (originally aired on NBC on July 9, 1950); "Reflection on Murder" (originally aired on NBC on August 13, 1950); and in his final radio performance as The Saint in "Pin No Roses on My Corpse" (originally aired on NBC on May 20, 1951).

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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.
1:03.2	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to down These Mean Streets and more detectives and crime solvers from the Golden Age of Radio.
1:09.4	This week we're observing a feast day for a saint, but not just any saint.
1:13.9	He's Simon Templar, the Robin Hood of Modern Crime,
1:20.2	created by Leslie Charteris, and whose adventures are the stuff of books, TV shows, movies,
1:32.7	and old-time radio shows. The saint has been played by many actors over the years. On screen, the characters probably most associated with Roger Moore, who starred as the Debenair Detective and Adventurer on TV before he filled Agent 007 shoulder holster on the big screen.
1:40.7	But on radio, the saint is synonymous with Vincent Price.
1:45.7	Before he became a legend of screen horror, Price played the suave saint on the air from 1947 until 1951.
1:55.8	Other actors played him on radio, including Brian Ahern, Edgar Berrier, and Tom Conway, but Price remains
2:02.7	the Radio Saint Supreme. And this week, we're celebrating the anniversary of the Saints'
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