Episode 612 - Hot Ice (Boston Blackie, Richard Diamond, Dragnet, & 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

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Ice is in the air - and on the ground - as many parts of the country contend with winter weather, but in this week's show our heroes contend with a different kind of ice...and it's because that ice has gone missing. Detectives hunt down stolen diamonds in these four radio mysteries, beginning with Richard Kollmar as Boston Blackie in a syndicated episode where diamonds are stolen right from under his own nose. Next, Richard Diamond, Private Detective is blamed when several thousand dollars of stones are pilfered from the police commissioner (originally aired on NBC on November 12, 1949). Then, Sgt. Joe Friday is on the case when a diamond salesman is robbed of his merchandise in "The Big Impression" from Dragnet (originally aired on NBC on August 7, 1952). And finally, John Lund stars as Johnny Dollar as he searches for a stolen yellow diamond in "The Uncut Canary Matter" (AFRS rebroadcast from February 16, 1954).

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.
1:05.9	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime fighters.
1:12.7	Well, our snow melted in my neck of the woods, just in time for us to be hit with another wave of winter weather. And since I've had ice on my mind for the last week and a half,
1:19.3	today I've got a quartet of radio mysteries where our heroes have to contend with a different
1:25.2	kind of ice, specifically stolen diamonds.
1:30.1	We'll start off with Richard Calmer as Boston Blackie, the safecracker turned super-slooth
1:36.0	in a syndicated mystery. As Blackie inspects some diamonds for his wealthy friend Charlie Kingston,
1:43.6	a gang of thieves break in, knock Blackie out,
1:47.7	and abscond with the stones. Now, Blackie thinks he's caught the crooks, but they seem to have
1:53.7	an airtight alibi that he can't break. Next, we've got diamonds on top of diamonds, as Richard Diamond, private detective, played by Dick Powell, is framed for stealing diamonds from no less than the police commissioner.
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